Assistant US Attorney Madison Smyser directed Bryana Bongolan back to the incident on the balcony of Cassie Ventura’s Los Angeles apartment.
Bongolan testified she was asleep with her ex-girlfriend on a couch in Ventura’s apartment when she heard Sean Combs banging on the door in September 2016. Ventura was in her bedroom at the time, Bongolan said.
Bongolan took her ex-girlfriend to hide in the guest bathroom and then went to the balcony herself to appear “casual.”
Bongolan said she hid the other woman at the time testifying, “I didn’t want to expose her to things that I see.”
She had a marijuana cigarette on the balcony facing away from the door when Combs came out to the balcony.
“I either lit the blunt or was about to light it,” Bongolan said. “He basically came up behind me.
“He lifted me up and then had me on top of the rail.”
Bongolan testified Combs grabbed her chest and then held her by her armpits over the railing.
Her feet were dangling above the railing, she said. Bongolan is about 5 feet tall.
Combs repeatedly yelled, “Do you know what the f**k you did?” according to Bongolan.
Bongolan said she still doesn’t know what Combs was talking about at the time. She recalled responding something like, “I don’t know what the f**k I did.”
After about 15 seconds dangling over the balcony railing, Combs threw her on the balcony furniture.
She said she had a lot of adrenaline and didn’t realize she was hurt right away.
Bongolan said as she was falling, she heard Ventura’s voice. Bongolan said Ventura asked something like “Did you just hang her over the balcony?” and it sounded like she was in disbelief.
Ventura and Combs then began talking, and Bongolan heard something about her girlfriend being in the house. Combs left shortly after, she said.
After Combs left, Bongolan went back to her apartment. “I was shaking a lot,” she said.
She said she had a big bruise with a piercing in the middle of it on her leg, and she suffered neck and back pain. The jury saw a picture of the bruise.
