Diddy Seeks Mistrial Over Balcony Incident Testimony

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has as soon as once more requested a mistrial in his intercourse trafficking trial.

The hip-hop mogul’s attorneys requested the presiding decide to throw out the trial over their allegations that prosecutors introduced false testimony, based on TMZ. The dispute arose from Cassie’s buddy Bryana “Bana” Bongolan alleging throughout her testimony on Wednesday, June 4, that Diddy as soon as dangled her over the balcony of a Los Angeles constructing after which tossed her into close by patio furnishings.

Diddy’s attorneys mentioned Cassie (actual identify Casandra Ventura) incorrectly testified in Might that she’d seen Diddy, 55, holding Bongolan, 33, over the balcony. Based on TMZ, Diddy’s authorized staff offered textual content messages from Cassie to Diddy’s worker Kristina Khorram, during which Cassie allegedly suggests she didn’t truly witness the incident as a result of she wrote: “I simply discovered some loopy s***.” Along with disputed testimony, Diddy contends that the photographs of Bongolan had been taken on a day when he was not in Los Angeles.

U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian has but to rule on Diddy’s newest mistrial movement. He beforehand declined to throw out the case in Might following a dispute over Cassie’s ex-boyfriend Child Cudi testifying about Diddy allegedly blowing up his automotive.

Us Weekly has reached out to Cassie’s representatives for remark.

Bongolan mirrored on her alleged confrontation with Diddy in September 2016 throughout her look on the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in New York Metropolis earlier this week. She informed the courtroom that she and her girlfriend had been sleeping on the sofa in Cassie’s Los Angeles house when her then-boyfriend Diddy allegedly began banging on the door. (Diddy and Cassie, 38, dated on and off from 2007 to 2018.)

Bongolan recalled urging her girlfriend to cover within the lavatory, earlier than strolling out onto the balcony to “act informal.” As soon as Diddy entered the house, he allegedly grabbed Bongolan from behind and “lifted [her] up after which put [her] on high of the rail.”

She remembered “making an attempt to not slip” over the balcony, whereas Diddy allegedly yelled at her, “You understand what the f*** you probably did.” Bongolan estimated that Diddy held her over the balcony for 15 seconds, leaving her with bodily accidents in addition to longer-term emotional results like “paranoia” and “night time terrors.”

Below cross examination, Diddy’s lawyer Nicole Westmoreland introduced up obvious discrepancies within the testimony, mentioning that Bongolan informed the courtroom that she was smoking weed when she was allegedly attacked whereas she beforehand acknowledged in a lawsuit that she was smoking a cigarette. (Bongolan sued Diddy final 12 months, and he denied her claims in a press release by way of his lawyer.)

Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution. He pleaded not responsible to all expenses and has denied all the allegations towards him.

“We’re upset with the choice to pursue what we consider is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace,” Diddy’s legal professional Marc Agnifilo mentioned in a press release on the time. “He’s an imperfect individual, however he’s not a prison. To his credit score Mr. Combs has been nothing however cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York final week in anticipation of those expenses. Please reserve your judgment till you may have all of the information. These are the acts of an harmless man with nothing to cover, and he seems to be ahead to clearing his identify in courtroom.”

Since his arrest, Diddy has been held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn. His 4 requests for bail had been denied by Decide Subramanian.

Diddy’s arrest got here almost one 12 months after his ex-girlfriend Cassie filed a lawsuit towards him accusing him of sexual and bodily abuse all through their relationship, which lasted on and off from 2007 to 2018. The mogul denied her claims in a press release shared by his legal professional.

“Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,” Diddy’s lawyer Ben Brafman mentioned on the time.

In the future after the swimsuit was filed, Diddy and Cassie settled out of courtroom. In Might 2024, CNN revealed a lodge surveillance video of Diddy kicking and grabbing Cassie in 2016. He later apologized for his actions in a video shared by way of Instagram.

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