Sean 'Diddy' Combs assault video was not leaked, prosecutors say

Prosecutors said they didn't person nan video erstwhile CNN aired it.

A video showing Sean "Diddy" Combs assaulting his erstwhile woman was not leaked to CNN by national prosecutors because they didn't person it astatine nan time, prosecutors insisted successful a caller overnight tribunal filing.

"[T]he suspect argues baselessly that a video depicting nan defendant's battle of a unfortunate astatine nan Intercontinental Hotel successful Los Angeles connected March 5, 2016 was provided to a media outlet by Government agents," nan filing said.

Prosecutors urged nan judge overseeing nan lawsuit to cull Combs' petition for an evidentiary hearing, calling it thing much than an effort to quash a "damning" portion of grounds against him.

"Without immoderate actual basis, nan Leak Motion seeks to suppress highly probative evidence—a video of Combs brutally physically assaulting a unfortunate successful March 2016 that was published by a media outlet successful May 2024—by claiming that it was expansive assemblage worldly leaked by Government agents to CNN. But, arsenic nan suspect is afloat aware, nan video was not successful nan Government's possession astatine nan clip of CNN's publication and nan Government has never, astatine immoderate point, obtained nan video done expansive assemblage process," nan filing said.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs', pinch his mom seated successful nan back, attends a proceeding successful national tribunal successful nan Manhattan borough of New York City, October 10, 2024 successful this courtroom sketch.

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Defense attorneys person based on nan purported leaks interfere pinch nan expertise of Combs to get a adjacent trial.

Prosecutors besides urged nan judge to cull Combs' petition to unit them to uncover nan personality of his accusers.

"[T]he defendant's petition for unfortunate names should beryllium denied connected nan ground that it is tantamount to a petition for early disclosure of nan Government's witnesser list, thing he is intelligibly not entitled to astatine this highly early shape of nan proceedings," prosecutors said. "Moreover, early disclosure of witnesses is particularly unwarranted here, wherever location are superior concerns of witnesser information and obstruction."

Prosecutors accused Combs of attempting to "co-opt this criminal proceeding to take sides against civilian litigation" revenge by anonymous accusers.

A judge overseeing astatine slightest 1 of those civilian cases conscionable rejected nan plaintiff's effort to proceed nether a pseudonym, saying location is "presumption of openness successful judicial proceedings."