Cassie’s legal team has pushed back at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ claim that the hotel surveillance video showing him assaulting her is edited.
Her attorney Douglas Wigdor insists the footage is authentic and expects it to be admitted as evidence in Diddy’s upcoming trial.
In a statement to Mail Online, Wigdor dismissed Diddy’s argument, saying, ‘It’s not surprising Diddy would make a disingenuous argument to exclude the disturbing video from being shown to the jury in the upcoming trial.’
He added, ‘I am confident that the video fairly and accurately represents what happened, will be admitted into evidence, and that Combs will be held accountable for his depravity.’
Diddy’s team claims CNN altered and destroyed the original footage, arguing for its exclusion in court, but Cassie’s camp expects the motion to be denied.
‘Our written and oral communications with CNN’s counsel was clear – they destroyed the original video file they received from their source,’ read a statement from Diddy’s legal team issued to Dailymail.com Thursday evening.
CNN denied the claims made by Combs that the clip was edited to make him look worse.
‘CNN never altered the video and did not destroy the original copy of the footage, which was retained by the source,’ a network spokesperson told TMZ. ‘CNN aired the story about the video several months before Combs was arrested.
While Diddy is not facing criminal charges for the assault seen in the footage, federal prosecutors intend to use it to support allegations of his history of violence.
The disgraced rapper, 54, is currently behind bars after he was charged with a host of s£x trafficking and racketeering offenses following his September 16 arrest.
Cassie played a pivotal role in the downfall of Diddy after she accused him of repeated physical abuse and r@pe in a bombshell $ 30 million lawsuit.
She had been in a long-term on-off relationship with Combs for 11 years.
They secretly started dating in 2007, two years after first meeting when Cassie was just 19. Their romance became public knowledge in 2012 and they split six years later in 2018.
Cassie filed a lawsuit against Combs for ‘r@pe, and of repeated physical abuse over about a decade’ on November 16, 2023, which indirectly explained her musical elusiveness.
In the filing, she claimed that just before the end of their relationship, he forced his way into her home and r@ped her.
Her lawsuit described in detail how he allegedly drugged her, intimidated her and forced her to have s£x with male s£x workers in front of him throughout their romance.
Combs settled the case just one day later
