U.S. prosecutors are pushing back on claims they leaked the now-infamous video of Sean "Diddy" Combs physically assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura .
Weeks after the rap mogul's attorneys said in a filing that the release of the 2016 clip on CNN in May was the result of "a series of unlawful government leaks,” prosecutors in the case have filed a motion refuting the allegation. In the Oct. 30 filing obtained by E! News, prosecutors state that the video, which was recorded in the hallway of the since-closed Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles , "was not in the Government's possession at the time of CNN’s publication and the Government has never, at any point, obtained the video through grand jury process.
" The documents add, "Without any factual basis, the Leak Motion seeks to suppress highly probative evidence—a video of Combs brutally physically assaulting a victim in March 2016 that was published by a media outlet in May 2024—by claiming that it was grand jury material leaked by Government agents to CNN." The prosecutors instead clarified when they had access to the video. They said the U.
S. government "ultimately obtained the Intercontinental Video at the same time as the general public on May 17, 2024, when CNN publicly released the footage." They also allege that Combs "refuses to acknowledge that multiple individuals other than Government agents—including some of his own employees—may have had access to the Intercontinental video.
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