Sean “Diddy” Combs mislaid a bid to forestall authorities officials from leaking accusation to nan media arsenic he remains down bars connected activity trafficking and racketeering charges.
On Friday, New York Judge Arun Subramanian denied a gag bid petition revenge by nan disgraced rapper’s ineligible team, according to tribunal documents obtained by Page Six.
Subramanian insisted that national agents, investigators and Combs’ squad must travel nan laws forbidding them from leaking expansive assemblage proceedings that tin meddle pinch a adjacent trial.
“To beryllium clear, this bid isn’t based connected a uncovering that location has been immoderate wrongdoing frankincense far, arsenic nan Court has made nary findings astatine this juncture relating to defendant’s allegations that accusation related to nan lawsuit has been leaked,” he wrote connected Friday.
“The constituent of this bid is to thief guarantee that thing happens from now connected that would interfere pinch a adjacent trial.”
Reps for Combs weren’t instantly disposable to Page Six for comment.
The ruling comes aft nan “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper’s attorneys accused nan feds of leaking information footage of him abusing ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura to nan property earlier.
Documents obtained by Page Six revealed Combs’ squad alleged earlier this period that authorities agents gave nan video to CNN successful May in a bid to “mortally coiled nan estimation and nan imaginable of Sean Combs successfully defending himself against these allegations.”
“Rather than utilizing nan videotape arsenic proceedings evidence, alongside different grounds that gives it discourse and
meaning, nan agents misused it successful nan astir prejudicial and damaging measurement possible,” the docs read.
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The gruesome video showed nan Bad Boy Records laminitis kicking, pulling and dragging Ventura, whom he dated on and disconnected from 2007 to 2018, astatine nan InterContinental Hotel successful Century City, Calif., successful 2016.
The feds, however, denied leaking nan clip, telling nan judge via a letter, “The Government was not successful possession of nan video earlier its publication by CNN.
“There is frankincense nary colorable actual ground for nan defendant’s declare that nan Government leaked nan video to CNN, fto unsocial that it was leaked ‘in usurpation of expansive assemblage secrecy,'” nan missive continued.
Combs antecedently apologized astir nan disturbing video, which isn’t related to his existent charges, via societal media, describing his behaviour arsenic “f–ked up.”
The “Last Night” crooner was arrested connected Sept. 16 and charged pinch racketeering, activity trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
He is presently awaiting proceedings astatine a Brooklyn, NY, detention center.