Fashion designer Bryana Bongolan testified on Wednesday in the high-profile trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs

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A friend of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura recalled in court this week how Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly threatened her following a photoshoot she did with Ventura — about a year before he allegedly held the friend’s body out over a 17th-floor balcony.

Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, a fashion designer who made the dangling allegation in a November 2024 lawsuit against Combs, testified in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday, June 4, in Combs’ trafficking and racketeering trial.

She told the jury about an incident around 2015, when she accompanied Ventura and a photographer who goes by “Bad Boi” for a photoshoot on the beach in Malibu, Calif.

Following the shoot, Bongolan testified, Combs came up “really close” to her face and said, “I’m the devil and I can kill you.’”

She appeared emotional as she recounted this alleged incident.

Bongolan said she couldn’t tell whether Combs was high at the time, and she said that she was likely high on cocaine. “I was terrified but because of the cocaine, I had a little confidence to brush it off,” she testified.

Bongolan’s bombshell lawsuit last December alleged Diddy “sexually battered her, dangled her off a 17-story-high balcony, and then slammed her onto the patio furniture on the balcony” in September 2016.

Combs’ representative denied the allegation last December, saying in a statement to Rolling Stone, “Anyone has the right to file a lawsuit, regardless of the evidence they may or may not have. Since last year, Ms. Bongolan has expressed an intention to sue Mr. Combs and has sought legal representation to pursue her claims. Mr. Combs firmly denies these serious allegations and remains confident they will ultimately be proven baseless.”

The suit is still pending.

Bongolan, who said she would spend a lot of time with Ventura, testified that Ventura and Combs’ relationship was “volatile” with “lots of ups and downs.”

Combs would typically come over to Ventura’s apartment in the middle of the night, Bongolan told the jury, and bang on her door. On one occasion, she was awoken by the banging.

Combs somehow got into the apartment and allegedly threw a knife at Ventura, Bongolan alleged. When asked by prosecutors how Ventura responded, Bongolan said, “She threw the knife back.”

Bongolan’s testimony follows testimony from other witnesses who allege Combs was often physically, verbally and, in some cases, sexually violent with them.

Combs is on trial on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.