At the tail end of week 4 of the US vs. Sean “Diddy” Combs, with only a few weeks left, we have learned so much about the man they call “Puff.” We even learn that Puff believes that he is the “...devil” himself! Cassie’s friend Bryanna Bongolan took the stand this week to give her account of Diddy dangling her from a 17th floor balcony. While Bryanna had heart pounding testimony, the defense team did not take any of her words as law! Tune in to hear the word-for-word testimony from these witnesses and so much more. Our Listener Survey is here: https://ex-plorsurvey.com/survey/selfserve/550/g517/250305?list=6 Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Germania Rodriguez-Poleo and Kayla Brantley Editor: Alex Graham Producer: Serita Wesley Writers: Caroline Cheetham & Liz Hull Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Jamie East A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the allegations against Diddy?
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Chapter 2: Who is Brianna Bongolan and what did she testify?
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From freak-offs to the mysterious list, the shocking case that has gripped the world is finally here. And we'll be bringing you every detail as it happens. Welcome to The Trial of Diddy. Welcome back to the trial of Diddy. We are now reaching the end of week four of this trial. And, Germania, the witnesses, they just keep on coming.
Yeah, that's right. Over the past two days, the jury has been hearing the testimony of another important prosecution witness. That's a woman named Brianna Bongolan, who is one of Cassie Ventura's close friends. In this episode, we're going to hear how she developed paranoia and suffers from night terrors after Diddy allegedly dangled her over a 17-story balcony.
How she claims he told her that he was the devil and could, quote, kill her.
And how she and Cassie became drug addicts, smoking marijuana, doing cocaine and ketamine together, sometimes for up to eight hours at a time, every week. Welcome to The Trial of Diddy. I'm the devil.
So on Wednesday, I went down to the courthouse and I actually went inside of the overflow room to see Breonna Bunkle and begin her testimony. So in the overflow room, there's a screen where you're watching the live feed of what's going on. So you get to actually see and hear from the witnesses as it's happening.
So I got to see Brianna on the stand as she took the stand on behalf of the prosecution. And it was pretty crowded in there. And while there were members of the press there, there were also members of the public. And a lot of them seemed to be pro-Diddy supporters. You could hear a lot of them reacting, especially during the cross-examination of Brianna.
A lot of them would turn around and mouth, she's a liar, while Bungolan was giving her testimony. So that was pretty interesting to see.
Yeah, and it's important to remember that's not supposed to happen in an overflow room. The judge reminded everyone today that they are to act as if they were inside the courtroom itself. So this is very much inappropriate behavior in a trial.
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Chapter 3: What happened during the balcony incident?
Van Golen said that Diddy was much bigger than her. He lifted her up by her armpits and her feet were on the rail.
I was trying not to slip and push back on him because I was scared to fall.
She said Diddy was yelling at her and kept repeating, quote, you know what the F you did. She said that she had no idea what he was talking about and kept telling him, quote, I don't know what the F I did. But he carried on screaming at her until eventually she said he just stopped.
He threw me on the balcony furniture. It definitely hurt, but I think all the adrenaline, I just got up.
She then said that Cassie came out of her bedroom and, quote, in disbelief, said to Diddy, quote, did you just hang her over the balcony? Bungolan said she left soon after that and just went home.
I was shaking a lot and then I wanted to take a shower because I felt disgusted. And then I look over behind my leg and I see a bruise.
She said she went to see a chiropractor because she had pain in her back and neck, but she did not tell them what had caused her injuries. However, the jury was then shown photographs of these injuries. One showed Bongolan wearing a neck brace with bandages over her shoulders.
Another showed the bruise on her leg and a puncture wound, which she said was caused when she was thrown into the furniture in the balcony. She says she didn't go to the police because she was, quote, too scared. And although the physical injuries have healed, she said the incident has affected her mentally until this day.
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. If I go home to my apartment, I'll like unlock it and I'll like kick the door open and pee my head in to see if everything's clear.
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Chapter 4: What mental effects did the incident have on Brianna?
She said she saw Cassie's black eye after the infamous Intercontinental Hotel attack in March 2016 and also noticed her with other random bruises from time to time. In fact, she said it took a year for her to meet Diddy because she wasn't sure she liked the way he treated her friend.
I wasn't really fond of what I was seeing, so I wasn't really wanting to meet him right away.
Bungolan said she would stay over at Cassie's apartment pretty often and Diddy would typically come over in the middle of the night and just start banging on the door to be let in. But she insisted she personally only ever witnessed any violence between them once. On that occasion, she said Diddy came over in the middle of the night and was upset.
She said she saw him throw a knife at Cassie and Cassie then threw the knife back at him. She said the knife missed and he left soon afterwards. But again, she said she did not call the police because she was just, quote, scared of Puff.
Yeah, she went on to say that she and Cassie did a lot of drugs together, including marijuana. They took ketamine and cocaine every single week. She said that on at least three or four occasions, Diddy was the one to give them drugs. But this is a good time to mention that before beginning her testimony, Bogolin asked for immunity.
And this has happened pretty often in this case where we've seen several witnesses ask for immunity, which basically stops them from being arrested for anything that they say on the stand. We saw it with Eddie Garcia, the security guard from the Intercontinental, who accepted a $100,000 bribe from Diddy to get rid of the surveillance tapes.
But Bongolin has asked for immunity because her testimony involves a lot of talk of buying and selling and using drugs. She admitted that she bought drugs for herself and Cassie to take. And also one time she bought cocaine for Diddy. But she also admitted that at times she sold drugs to Cassie and to other people.
And during her testimony at this time, she actually started laughing while she described how she and Cassie would try to do other things like cooking together to make them stop taking drugs. But each time they went back to their habits, she said they both, quote, wanted to do better. But it was, quote, hard to get sober if there's a lot of drugs around.
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Chapter 5: What did Brianna reveal about Diddy's threats?
Yeah, she said the last time she quote hung out with Cassie and Diddy was on January 2nd, 2018 after a New Year's Eve party. She said they spent eight hours doing ketamine together at the one hotel in Miami. She said she knew the precise date because that was the date she had decided she quote couldn't do this anymore.
She said she had the date tattooed on her neck as part of a quote commitment to get sober and not go back.
So that was Bongolin's direct questioning. But then it was the turn of Diddy's defense lawyer, Nicole Westmoreland, to cross-examine her. And Diddy's lawyer came in pretty hot. She started by asking her about her drug use and a favorite method she and Cassie used, which is known as Cocoa Puff. And here their words have been voiced by actors.
OK, you and Cassie would do Cocoa Puff? Yeah. Turn to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury. And explain to all of us what Cocoa Puff is.
It's when you take a blunt and you open the blunt and you put weed in there and then you sprinkle cocaine in it.
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Chapter 6: How did Cassie and Diddy's relationship affect Brianna?
Okay. That was one of your faves? Favorites? Yes. Okay. Cassie liked Cocoa Puffs too. Didn't she, from your understanding? Yes. How does Cocoa Puff make you feel?
It's like add all the weed feelings and then a little like sharp feeling because of the Coke.
Okay. You would agree with me that you and Cassie had a serious drug problem? Yeah, we had a problem. Okay. Now, you and Cassie would do drugs together before you met Mr. Combs, true? Yes. And you would sell Cassie drugs, true? Yes. You often sold Cassie drugs. Yes. Well, let's put a time frame on it. You would agree with me that you sold Cassie drugs on at least a weekly basis?
Yes. Bongolin said that she never took pills with Cassie, but she knew that she took them. And on one occasion, she bought hundreds of them for her friend. She said they were both regular weekly drug users, but she denied doing them every day.
Westmoreland then asked her about the lawsuit she filed last year against Diddy. She admitted she filed it after reading Cassie's lawsuit and speaking to her, but she insisted that she simply wanted justice for what she had been through. And it was at this point that the cross-examination between Bongolan and Westmoreland got pretty testy. Okay.
And the purpose was to sue Mr. Combs, true? It was to seek justice. It was what? To seek justice. And your definition of seeking justice was to sue Mr. Combs, right? Could you explain that further? You hired lawyers to sue Mr. Combs. Isn't that true? I did hire a lawyer. Okay. To sue Mr. Combs? To sue Mr. Combs. Okay.
And like Cassie did, true? For different intentions, I would say, but yes.
Westmoreland really went for Bongolin's credibility here, and she started asking her about inconsistencies between what she said in the lawsuit, what she later told the government, and what she more recently testified to the jury. Westmoreland said that Bongolin had told the government that the incident where Diddy threatened to kill her was
took place at a party and not on the beach during a photo shoot in Miami as she had testified. But Bongolin said that she didn't recall. The lawyer also claimed Bongolin told government investigators that she'd been smoking a cigarette before the balcony incident and hadn't been asleep when Diddy arrived at Cassie's apartment, in direct contradiction to what she'd said to the jury.
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