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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Wants to Ban Testimony From Other Alleged Victims, Says Will ‘Pollute the Trial’

Sean “Diddy” Combs and prosecutors are in a pre-trial battle over whether jurors can hear testimony from numerous other alleged sex abuse victims.

In dueling court filings Monday, attorneys for the two sides exchanged heated arguments over the prosecution’s plan to call witnesses that it identifies as “non-statutory victims” – women who say they were sexually assaulted by Combs but whose claims don’t form the basis for the actual charges. Diddy ’s lawyers say the feds are trying to “pollute the trial with decades of dirt” by adding last-minute “incendiary” claims to paint him as a “bad guy”; prosecutors say Combs is “desperately” trying to keep relevant testimony about his other intent and knowledge “hidden from the jury.” “The government should not be permitted to pollute the trial with decades of dirt and invite a conviction based on propensity evidence with no proper purpose by painting Mr. Combs as a bad guy who must have committed the charged crimes,” his lawyers wrote.

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