Sean Combs trial updates: 'Jane' testifies on 'hotel nights' with Combs

A month before she filed her civil lawsuit against Sean Combs, according to Bryana Bongolan's testimony, she received a FaceTime call from music producer Rob Holladay from what she told the jury "looked like Puff's backyard."

She testified that Holladay, whom she considered a friend, told her he was calling on behalf of Combs. "He was trying to talk about settling with me," Bongolan told the court.

"When was the next time you spoke to Rob Holladay?" prosecutor Madison Smyser said.

"We never talked again," Bongolan testified in response.

Bongolan filed a civil complaint against Combs about the alleged incident in November 2024, seeking $10 million in damages. "I wanted to seek justice for what happened to me," she testified. Combs has denied the incident occurred.

On cross-examination, Bongolan testified that she and Cassie Ventura had a drug problem.

Under questioning from defense attorney Nicole Westmoreland, Bongolan testified that she and Ventura would use marijuana, edibles, cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy, molly, GHB, acid, Vicodin and "coco puffs." "It's when you take a blunt, open it, put weed in there, sprinkle cocaine in there," Bongolan explained of the latter.

Bongolan told the court that she would also sell drugs to Ventura while the two of them worked on a t-shirt line and other clothing. The clothing lines launched but, Bongolan testified, they did not work out.

"They didn't work out because you and Cassie were competing against people like Beyoncé?" Westmoreland asked.

"Yeah," Bongolan testified.

"And you were competing against people like Rhianna?" Westmoreland asked.

"Yes," Bongolan testified.

Westmoreland also asked several questions that appeared to imply Bongolan and Ventura coordinated their accounts of the alleged balcony incident.

"You and Cassie discussed locations where this happened, true?" Westmoreland asked.

"Yes," Bongolan told the court.

"You and Cassie were discussing potential dates?" Westmoreland asked.

"Yes," Bongolan testified.

Ventura told the jury that she did not see Bongolan being dangled from the balcony but did see Combs allegedly pull her back from the rail and throw her into furniture.

Bryana Bongolan was sleeping on the couch with her ex-girlfriend at Cassie Ventura's 17th floor apartment in September 2016 when, she testified, she awoke to the sound of Sean Combs banging loudly on the door.

She testified that she immediately hid the girlfriend in a bathroom, shut the door and ran onto the balcony to "act casual."

Asked why she hid the girlfriend, Bongolan told the court "I didn't want to expose her to the things that I'd seen."

On the balcony, "I either lit a blunt or was about to light it" when Combs came up behind her, Bongolan testified. "He lifted me and then had me on top of the rail."

She's 5 feet, 1 inch tall and, at the time, between 100-115 pounds, Bongolan testified, adding that Sean Combs is "a lot bigger."

Bongolan told the court that her feet were on the balcony rail and she remembered thinking that she was scared to fall.

"For a split second I was thinking I was going to fall but for the most part he was yelling at me, so I was trying to answer him," Bongolan testified, referring to Combs. "He kept repeating 'You know what the f--- you did.'"

"Sitting here today, do you have any idea what he was talking about?" prosecutor Madison Smyser asked.

"Still have no idea," testified Bongolan.

Bongolan told the court that Combs then threw her onto balcony furniture. "It definitely hurt but I think all the adrenaline, I just got up," she testified.

Combs has denied that the incident occurred.

Later, Bongolan testified, she noticed a large purple bruise on her leg with a small puncture wound in the middle of it. The jury was shown a photo of the injury.

The jury also saw other photos of Bongolan's back, which was covered with large bandages. She's also wearing a neck brace in the photo.

Bongolan testified that when a chiropractor asked, "Who did this to you?" she did not answer. She also told the court that she never reported anything about the incident to police because, she told the court, she was "too scared" of Combs.

"Did you ever talk to Mr. Combs about this incident? Smyser asked.

"Yes," Bongolan testified. "Him or someone on his team FaceTimed me a day or two later." She told the jury that the person allegedly said during the call "I don't want any problems from you."

Years later, on New Year's Eve 2017, Bongolan testified, she, Ventura and Combs were together at the 1 Hotel in Miami and "did eight hours of ketamine."

She left the two of them thinking, "I can't do this anymore," Bongolan told the court.

Bongolan also testified that she has a tattoo of the date Jan. 7, 2018, which she said is the day she decided to quit drugs and get sober.

Bryana Bongolan testified on Wednesday pursuant to a subpoena and an immunity deal with federal prosecutors.

She spoke in a soft voice, at times nearly a whisper, telling the jury Combs allegedly provided her with drugs, including ecstasy, ketamine, cocaine and GHB, also known as Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid. She told the court she had never done "G" before Combs provided it to her.

Bongolan also testified that "a few" times she saw Combs do drugs, including marijuana, ketamine and cocaine.

She and Cassie Ventura tried to stop doing drugs at various points but, she told the court, "It's hard to get sober if there's a lot of drugs around."

The jury saw a 2016 photo Bongolan took of Ventura and a photographer known as Bad Boi in Malibu. At that photo shoot Bongolan testified that Combs threatened her.

"He came up to me and said some stuff," she testified. "He came up really close to my face and said something like, 'I'm the devil, and I could kill you.'"

Prosecutor Madison Smyser asked, "How did you react to this threat?"

"I was terrified," Bongolan testified. "Because of the cocaine I had a lot of confidence and that just brushed it off."

Court is taking its lunch break.

Bryana Bongolan took the witness stand and promptly told the jury that Sean "Diddy" Combs allegedly held her over a 17th-floor balcony nine years ago.

"I was held over a 17-story balcony" in September 2016, she testified, an allegation that Cassie Ventura also made during her testimony.

Then, Bongolan told the jury, Combs "threw me onto the balcony furniture."

"Were you injured?" prosecutor Madison Smyser asked.

"I had a bruise on the back of my leg and back and neck pain," Bongolan testified. "I had night terrors, paranoia, and I scream in my sleep sometimes."

Combs has denied Bongolan's claim.

Bongolan, who also is known as Bana, told the court that she met Cassie Ventura while they worked together at a streetwear company and called Ventura "one of my close friends."

Asked what she and Ventura would do together, Bongolan testified, "Get high." She told the court they would use "a lot of marijuana, cocaine, ketamine, stuff like that." Eventually, she testified, it "definitely created a habit."

Bongolan was reluctant to meet Combs, she told the court: "I just wasn't ultimately fond of what I was seeing."

Asked to elaborate, Bongolan testified that Ventura would seem upset during phone calls or appear with a black eye. She told the court about one time before the premiere of the film "The Perfect Match," in which Ventura starred, when she said Ventura called her on FaceTime.

"She just panned from one side of the face to the other," Bongolan testified.

"What did you see?" Smyser asked.

"Her black eye," Bongolan testified. "I was a little quiet and I remember saying, 'I'm sorry.'"

Bonglan further testified about another time she said she was asleep in Ventura's apartment and was awakened "by the banging," adding "Puff was banging at the door."

Bongolan told the court that she didn't recall what Combs said but she did recall his tone of voice.

"Upset," Bongolan testified. "I just remember seeing a knife get thrown in her direction," referring to Ventura.

Smyser asked, "How did Cassie react when the knife was thrown in her direction?"

"She threw it back," Bongolan testified in response.

"Did the knife hit Mr. Combs?" Smyser asked.

"No," Bongolan told the court.