Legal professionals for Sean “Diddy” Combs are formally asking a choose to exclude the lodge footage that reveals the rap mogul abusing his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, forward of his upcoming trial.
Within the surveillance video from March 2016, which was launched by CNN on Might 17, 2024, Ventura is seen leaving a room on the InterContinental Resort in Los Angeles and strolling towards a financial institution of elevators as her then-boyfriend chases after her. When Combs catches as much as her, he grabs Cassie by the neck and throws her to the ground. The disgraced music mogul goes on to violently kick her earlier than grabbing her purse and suitcase.
Whereas Ventura lies on the ground, Combs kicks her once more and drags her again towards the room earlier than letting go and strolling away. Only a few moments later, he grabs an object from a desk and forcefully throws it towards her. The altercation captured within the video matched the allegations Cassie made in a now-settled lawsuit she filed in opposition to Diddy in November 2023.
Following the video’s launch, Combs posted an apology video addressing the incident, saying, “I take full duty for my actions in that video,” he mentioned whereas talking to the digital camera on Might 19, 2024.
“Disgusted. I used to be disgusted then after I did it, I’m disgusted now,” he mentioned on the time. “I went and I sought out skilled assist, going to remedy, going to rehab. I needed to ask God for his mercy and charm. I’m so sorry, however I’m dedicated to be a greater man. Every day.”
Regardless of seemingly proudly owning as much as what occurred within the video, Diddy’s authorized group is now backtracking, insisting that the footage is “wholly inaccurate.”
“There isn’t a longer any dispute that the CNN footage from March 5, 2016, on the InterContinental Resort, provided by the federal government at three separate bail hearings, is wholly inaccurate, having been altered, manipulated, sped-up, and edited to be out of sequence,” his attorneys declare in New York Metropolis submitting on Friday, April 17, in accordance with PEOPLE.
The movement additionally alleges that CNN paid for the footage and introduced it out of order, destroying the unique tape.
“Accordingly, all of the footage from CNN is inaccurate and inadmissible,” the movement alleges. “As for the 2 objects of footage filmed by an iPhone 6, these items of footage are inaccurate and inadmissible as nicely.”
Combs’ attorneys argue within the submitting that the CNN video and iPhone movies have to be excluded from trial as a result of the federal government can not present enough proof of their authenticity.
This comes as authorized docs obtained by TMZ reveal Cassie’s claims that Diddy is demanding she flip over her financial institution statements and a e-book she wrote about him. The singer is attempting to get the court docket to kill a subpoena she claims she was served by Combs’ authorized group.
Ventura claims Diddy despatched her a subpoena on March 19 demanding she flip over “all draft memoirs, autobiographies, narratives, diaries, journals or notes … and any communications about plans to publish or threaten to publish such a doc.” She goes on to allege that he demanded she hand over her financial institution statements.
Earlier in Diddy’s case, attorneys Marc Agnifilo claimed Cassie instructed her ex she had written a e-book about him that he might “catch and kill” for $30 million. Again in September, Agnifilo claimed that Cassie had her lawyer name Diddy’s lawyer on a recorded line telling him she had written a e-book about their relationship that she deliberate to publish. He additionally claimed Cassie provided Diddy the choice purchase the rights to the e-book for $30 million to stop it from being printed.
Agnifilo claims Cassie switched attorneys and her new legal professional instructed Diddy in November 2023 that the e-book was not essential as a result of a civil intercourse case was going to be filed.
