Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense accused CNN of altering and destroying a video exhibiting the rapper bodily assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
Lodge surveillance footage, launched by the outlet final Could, confirmed Combs and Cassie Ventura engaged in a bodily altercation. Whereas the footage has been supplied to Combs’ protection in his federal intercourse trafficking trial, the “I am going to Be Lacking You” rapper now claims it has been “considerably altered.”
“The protection has confirmed, by way of a forensic video evaluation of the CNN footage that the federal government supplied to this Court docket and of the footage supplied by CNN in response to the protection subpoena, that each one CNN video footage was considerably altered in important respects,” Combs’ authorized group wrote in a letter filed in courtroom Thursday and obtained by Fox Information Digital. “This consists of masking the time stamp after which altering the video sequence. It additionally consists of rushing up the video to make it falsely seem that the actions within the video are happening quicker than they’re. In consequence, the CNN movies don’t pretty and precisely depict the occasions in query.”
“Lastly, the protection has confirmed that CNN bought the one identified copy of the Lodge’s surveillance footage, uploaded that footage right into a free enhancing software program, altered the video; after which destroyed the unique footage regardless that it knew about and repeatedly reported in regards to the federal investigation.”
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Sean “Diddy” Combs was seen on lodge surveillance footage from 2016, bodily assaulting Cassie Ventura. (Getty Photos)
CNN denied the allegations, stating that the unique copy nonetheless exists.
“CNN by no means altered the video and didn’t destroy the unique copy of the footage, which was retained by the supply,” a spokesperson for CNN informed Fox Information Digital. “CNN aired the story in regards to the video a number of months earlier than Combs was arrested.”
Diddy’s homes were raided in reference to a human trafficking investigation in March 2024. The video of Combs with Cassie, which featured a bodily altercation that occurred in 2016, was revealed in Could 2024. The musician had accused Combs of bodily and sexual abuse in November 2023 by way of a civil lawsuit that she withdrew at some point later.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Los Angeles house was raided by Homeland Safety officers in March 2024. (Getty Photos)
“CNN by no means altered the video and didn’t destroy the unique copy of the footage, which was retained by the supply. CNN aired the story in regards to the video a number of months earlier than Combs was arrested.”
Combs was later arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion, and transportation to interact in prostitution in September 2024.
The rapper was arrested at a lodge in New York, a supply confirmed to Fox Information Digital on the time. He pleaded not responsible to all expenses.
Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie Ventura dated from 2007 till 2018. (Getty Photos)
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Diddy apologized for the habits within the video, six months after settling Cassie’s sexual abuse lawsuit.
“My habits on that video is inexcusable,” Combs stated in a press release shared to social media after the video aired. “I take full duty for my actions in that video. I used to be disgusted then after I did it. I’m disgusted now. I went and I sought out skilled assist. I bought into going to remedy, going to rehab. I needed to ask God for his mercy and beauty. I’m so sorry.”
Cassie Ventura accused Diddy of sexual assault and bodily abuse in a lawsuit, which was settled at some point later. (Getty Photos)
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Combs is presently behind bars as he awaits trial. Decide Arun Subramanian scheduled the rapper’s trial to start on Could 5. The prosecution expects the federal government’s case to take six weeks to put out, whereas Diddy’s authorized group now estimates needing two weeks to argue the rapper’s protection.
Authorities alleged Combs ran a legal enterprise by way of his companies, together with Dangerous Boy Leisure, Combs Enterprises and Combs World, amongst others. He used “firearms, threats of violence, coercion, and verbal, emotional, bodily, and sexual abuse” to satisfy his sexual wishes, in line with the unsealed indictment obtained by Fox Information Digital.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested and charged with racketeering, intercourse trafficking and extra in September 2024. (Jane Rosenberg)
Combs and his staff would “intimidate, threaten, and lure feminine victims into Comb’s orbit, usually below the pretense of a romantic relationship. Combs allegedly then used pressure, threats of pressure, and coercion, to trigger victims to interact in prolonged intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse employees that Combs known as, amongst different issues, ‘Freak Offs.'”
The rapper has denied all allegations.
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