Diddy is making another attempt to have his case dismissed, as his legal team contests allegations that he threatened a fashion designer by dangling him off a balcony.
On Saturday, Diddy’s attorneys submitted a letter asking to dismiss the trial after testimony from Bryana Bongolan, a fashion designer and friend of Diddy’s former girlfriend, Cassie.
Bongolan claimed the rap mogul had held her over the edge of a balcony, 17 stories high.
Combs’ lawyers have argued that the prosecution knowingly allowed the false testimony to be given.
Diddy’s defense claims that text messages from Cassie to Kristina Khorram, who works for the rap mogul, show she did not witness the alleged event, according to a report by TMZ.
The text which said, ‘I just found out some crazy s***,’ indicated to the defense that she had heard of the alleged incident through another source and had not seen it first hand.
The defense also cited images shown by prosecutors of Bongolan’s injuries from the alleged incident.
Bongolan had testified that after Diddy had allegedly held her over the balcony, that he threw her into some furniture.
On Saturday, Diddy’s legal team filed a letter requesting the trial be dismissed following a testimony from Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie’s friend and fashion designer, Bryana Bongolan
Bongolan (pictured) claimed the rap mogul had held her over the edge of a balcony, 17 stories high
The photographs of the injuries, including bruises on her leg as well as neck injuries, were proven to have been taken on September 26, 2016.
Diddy’s defense, however, argued that he was on the East Coast and couldn’t have committed anything he was accused of on September 26.
Prosecutors later clarified that Cassie’s text message indicated it occurred later in the week, around September 29 or 30, TMZ reported.
Bongolan had sued the rap mogul for $10million last year, accusing him of sexual battery and physical abuse.
Her lawsuit claimed Combs molested and attacked her at Cassie Ventura’s Los Angeles apartment in 2016 after one of his notorious ‘freak off’ parties.
She claimed Diddy force-fed her ecstasy and during a photoshoot told her ‘I’m the mother******g devil. I could kill you.’
Bongolan alleged she suffered the near-death experience on the balcony on September 26, 2016, after one of the rapper’s sex marathons.
She was not involved in the freak off party that allegedly happened just before the incident, her complaint states.
Bongolan had sued the rap mogul for $10million last year, accusing him of sexual battery and physical abuse. She claimed Diddy force-fed her ecstasy and during a photoshoot told her ‘I’m the mother******g devil. I could kill you’
Bongolan claims the alleged balcony assault – which Combs (pictured during his trial in a June 2 courtroom sketch) denies – followed a pattern of threats and abuse
Bongolan and her then-girlfriend were sleeping in a bedroom of Ventura’s apartment when an intoxicated Diddy stormed in after ‘violently’ banging on the door, the lawsuit alleges.
She allegedly hid on the balcony, only for Combs to storm over to her, roughly grab her and grope her breasts as she tried to fight him off and tell him to leave, she claimed.
He held her over the edge of the balcony under her arms and lifted her on to the banister, while screaming, ‘Do you know what the f*** you did?’ over and over, the lawsuit claimed.
Ventura heard the commotion, came out of her locked bedroom and screamed at Diddy to stop. But as Ventura tried to calm him down, Combs allegedly slammed Bongolan against the balcony furniture.
Ventura, who took to the witness stand last week, recounted the violence during her own testimony at Combs’ trial.
Diddy has denied that the incident ever took place.
Bongolan’s lawsuit further included stories she heard while working with Combs, including that he threatened to blow up rapper Kid Cudi’s car after he slept with Ventura.
Her complaint also featured a rumor that Diddy previously ‘skinned a rival’s dog’, although she admitted she did not know if there was any truth to the story.
Diddy’s defense argued, however, that a series of texts from Cassie to Kristina Khorram, one of the rap mogul’s employees, indicated she hadn’t witnessed the incident
Cassie’s text which said, ‘I just found out some crazy s***,’ indicated to the defense that she had heard of the alleged incident through another source and had not seen it first hand
This is the second call for a mistrial after Diddy’s defense team tried to argue that the line of questioning surrounding the destruction of fingerprint evidence related to the Molotov cocktail bombing of Kid Cudi’s car implied Combs could buy his way out of trouble.
Prosecutors had asked Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator Lance Jimenez if the evidence had been destroyed and who might have authorized its destruction.
‘They were trying to plan this idea to these jurors that Mr. Combs authorized this,’ defense Attorney Alexandra Shapiro said, People reported.
Judge Arun Subramanian denied the motion to throw out the trial and ruled that the questions had not been prejudicial.
The jury was then ordered not to consider the questions about the fingerprints.
A ruling on the new request for a mistrial is yet to be made.
