A graphic designer testified Wednesday that she was so traumatized after Sean “Diddy” Combs held her over a Seventeenth-floor residence balcony that she typically screamed in her sleep afterward.
Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, 33, a buddy of Combs’ former longtime girlfriend Cassie, mentioned the 2016 assault at Cassie’s Los Angeles residence prompted a bruise on the again of her leg, together with again and neck ache. It additionally left her emotionally scarred, she instructed the jury.
“I have night terrors and paranoia and I would scream in my sleep sometimes,” mentioned Bongolan, a artistic and advertising and marketing director who runs her personal artwork company.
Her testimony got here within the fourth week of proof presentation by prosecutors as they search to show that Combs oversaw a racketeering group composed of his staff and associates as he bodily and sexually abused girls for 20 years.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and different fees that, if convicted, might ship him to jail for 15 years to life.
Bongolan is the newest lady to testify that the hip-hop mogul acted violently towards her and Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who already testified for 4 days concerning the abuse she incurred. Different witnesses described seeing him bodily abusing girls.
Cassie testified that she noticed Combs convey certainly one of her associates again over the railing of a balcony at her residence within the early morning.
Cassie mentioned she was asleep in her room when she awoke to the episode.
“I saw him bring her back over the railing of the balcony and then throw her onto the patio furniture,” Cassie testified.
When Bongolan recalled the assault, she mentioned Combs barged into Cassie’s residence, lifted her up and put her on the rail. She mentioned she feared that she would plummet to her loss of life as she pushed again towards Combs.
“I was scared to fall,” she mentioned. Combs was yelling at her all through the ordeal, Bongolan mentioned, estimating he held her over the railing for 10 to fifteen seconds.
She mentioned Combs then threw her onto balcony furnishings. Adrenaline helped her energy by the ordeal, Bongolan mentioned. She recalled getting up instantly after being thrown down.
Bongolan mentioned Cassie, who was sleeping within the bed room, then got here out and requested Combs: “Did you just hang her over the balcony?” Instructed that Bongolan’s ex-girlfriend was additionally within the residence, Combs swiftly left, Bongolan mentioned.
Bongolan mentioned she has lasting results from Combs assaulting her.
“I have nightmares and I have a lot of paranoia and I used to scream a lot in my sleep, but it’s dissipated a little bit,” she testified.
A part of her paranoia, she mentioned, consists of opening doorways rigorously and peeking into rooms earlier than going inside, and he or she added that she had a nightmare as just lately as a couple of days in the past.
Bongolan mentioned Combs gave her medicine on three or 4 events, together with ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and G, a substance she understood was the depressant GHB.
She mentioned she additionally did medicine about as soon as every week with Cassie when Combs wasn’t round.
Bongolan, testifying in response to a subpoena from prosecutors, was granted immunity after she initially mentioned she would refuse to reply questions and invoke her Fifth Modification proper towards self-incrimination. She was at the least the third witness given immunity to testify.
Information 4’s Erica Byfield shares her notes from the courtroom of the Sean Combs trial throughout week 3’s testimony for the prosecution.
