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CNN Denies Accusation From Diddy Lawyers: ‘Never Altered’ Cassie Assault Video
CNN denied accusations from Sean “Diddy” Combs that the network altered and destroyed a 2016 surveillance video of him assaulting Cassie Ventura.
In court filings Thursday, attorneys for the indicted hip-hop mogul leveled a bombshell accusation: that CNN “substantially altered” the footage in “significant respects” and then destroyed the original copy, even though they knew about the criminal investigation into Diddy. Thursday’s dispute is significant because Diddy’s attorneys will cite CNN’s alleged mishandling as a reason for the footage to be excluded from the upcoming trial, potentially depriving prosecutors of a visceral piece of evidence to present to jurors. In a statement to Billboard on Friday, Cassie’s attorney Douglas Wigdor criticized Diddy over the filings: “It is not surprising that Combs would make a disingenuous argument to exclude the disturbing video from being shown to the jury in the upcoming trial.
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