On a jaw-dropping day inside a federal courthouse, terrifying new allegations against Sean "Diddy" Combs have come to light, revealing a world wrought with chaos, command, and violence. Shockwaves in and out of court as a fashion designer and one-time friend of singer Cassie Ventura, Bryana "Bana" Bongolan, testified.
Bongolan, who had hung in the same circles that Cassie would eventually come to, insists that Diddy held her over the ledge of a 17th-floor balcony in a nightmare-inducing incident that haunted her and filled her nights with terror. "He picked me up, draped me over the balcony," she testified. "It feels like I was going to die."
In another incident from 2016, Bongolan said Diddy confronted her nose-to-nose and uttered menacingly, "I'm the Devil, and I could kill you." The incident seemingly took place after photos were shot involving a photographer called "Bad Boi," bringing another creepy dimension to what is becoming an ongoing saga.
Bongolan, who met Cassie in 2013 through San Francisco's streetwear scene, explained to TMZ that she wanted nothing to do with Diddy from their first meeting, especially after seeing Cassie with a black eye. But eventually, she was swayed to be around him more. That choice thrust her into the chaos, she said in her testimony.
Bongolan says Diddy commanded Cassie and the people in her circle via fear, surveillance, and drugs. On one occasion, she said, he hadn't been told where they were going when he sent Cassie a rundown of all the places the two women had gone with precise time stamps attached. "I felt like prey," Bongolan said.
One of the most shocking stories was when she said Diddy came into the apartment one time and was throwing knives at her. Cassie is said to have retrieved it and thrown it back at him before he fled the scene. Bongolan also remembered times when Cassie would flash her bruises on FaceTime, sometimes right before shooting on set, such as in a scene from The Perfect Match.
Bongolan said that he picked up drugs such as Oxycodone for Cassie and, on one occasion, scored cocaine for Diddy. She also said the two were given substances such as ketamine, cocaine, and a drug she called "G."
The statements mirror the allegations in a $10 million lawsuit that Bongolan filed against Diddy in Los Angeles last November, in which she also described the balcony episode.
Though the courtroom itself was stiflingly silent for much of her testimony, the impact of her words, her terror, the violence she said she saw, and the web of control she depicted was hardly silent.
As the trial unfolds, the public and the industry are riveted by the dark details revealed. And if Bongolan's word is any indication, the reality of what's happening behind the glitzy facade of Combs' empire may be far more horrifying than anyone could ever imagine.
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