Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyers seek gag order, citing 'improper' pretrial publicity

The defense says witnesses are undermining Combs' correct to a adjacent trial.

Attorneys for Sean "Diddy" Combs complained of a "deluge of improper pretrial publicity" and asked nan judge overseeing his criminal lawsuit to bid imaginable witnesses to support quiet.

Combs' attorneys, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, said successful a missive to nan judge that statements by definite individuals are "undermining Mr. Combs' correct to a adjacent proceedings and nan integrity of nan expansive assemblage proceedings."

The missive followed expansive assemblage grounds by a euphony shaper who claimed to person had possession of a videotape of nan hip-hop mogul engaged successful intersexual assaults of celebrities.

Combs is presently imprisoned connected charges of racketeering, activity trafficking by unit and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.

"These stories person dispersed quickly done nan media and created nan belief that specified videos exist, which is false, and that nan authorities is really crediting his sensational claims, which is profoundly prejudicial," nan missive said.

Sean Combs arrives for nan 2018 Met Gala connected May 7, 2018, astatine nan Metropolitan Museum of Art successful New York.

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The defense is asking for a tribunal bid gagging imaginable witnesses and their attorneys.

Prosecutors person objected to specified a gag order, successful portion because plaintiffs successful civilian litigation against Combs are extracurricular nan purview of nan criminal court.

But nan defense attorneys person stated, "It makes small consciousness that civilian litigants seeking to capitalize connected nan criminal allegations against Mr. Combs tin nevertheless declare that they are not progressive successful nan criminal proceedings."

Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to a three-count national indictment, and his ineligible squad has denied that he sexually assaulted immoderate of his civil accusers.