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Every day the Sean Diddy Combs case sees another angle, with something fresh and shocking surfacing. In the latest reports, the legal team of the now-disgraced rapper and the artist himself are blaming the federal government for orchestrating the leak of video of Cassie getting beaten up. They reportedly blamed that it was the federal agents who might have provided the footage to the media.
As per TMZ, who reported the news, following their study of new legal documents, the attorneys of the rapper have also accused the federal agents of misconduct in his criminal case by allegedly leaking the footage to CNN.
For those unaware, CNN was the one to publish the video where Sean Diddy Combs was seen brutally beating his then-girlfriend Cassie. The video happens to be from 2016 and shows the rapper having a physical altercation with Cassie in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel.
As per the documents, Diddy Combs is pointing towards the Department of Homeland Security and not the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Per Diddy’s lawyers, the rapper’s team was contacted by a correspondent from CNN, who was asking for their comment on a video the network was planning to publish in a few hours. This was on May 17.
The report by TMZ also suggests that the correspondent had stated that CNN came “across a video and currently have in our possession surveillance footage from the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles in 2016.”
After the team was approached by CNN, Diddy Combs’s attorneys had emailed the prosecutors looking into the rapper’s case, informing them about the word from CNN about the videotape.
“My concern is that someone (not any of you and not the lead case agents) provided this footage to CNN. I bring this to your attention solely because I imagine you didn’t want this to happen any more than I do,” the prosecutors wrote in an email, per TMZ.
The rapper’s lawyers also state that after the footage was released, on May 17, an Assistant United States Attorney had responded, “We really appreciate you giving us a heads up. We have now seen the video.”
Now Diddy’s attorneys are blaming DHS for being the source of the leak, also pointing out that DHS was often quoted in news stories following the raid at the rapper’s residence and investigation.
While stating that Cassie had no motive to leak the video, also believing that she didn’t have it, looking at her lawsuit, the attorneys have blamed the federal agents for a particular reason.
Per the attorneys, May 17 was a slow news day, with a break in the Donald Trump trial, and hence leaking the video would divert the attention towards Diddy.
The attorneys now want an evidentiary hearing.
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One more major claim has been added to the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs list of allegations. Ex-rapper Mark Curry alleged that the Bad Boys Records founder silenced his A-list friends by giving them the publishing rights to their music in exchange for NDAs.
According to Sportskeeda, Curry appeared on The Daily Mail’s Marjorie Hernandez’s podcast, The Trial of Diddy. The former rapper opened up about the disgraced rapper’s alleged exchanges with his A-List friends. For the unversed, The Bad Boy Records, which started operating in 1993, owned the publishing rights to their artists’s music.
The company held the rights until September 2023, which was when Diddy reportedly released the published rights to the respective musician. Two months later, in November, he was hit with his first abuse lawsuit by ex-Cassie Ventura.
Curry claimed on the podcast that the Bad Boy Records founder gave all his artists their publishing rights in exchange for NDA to not open up about him. Curry thinks this was because he had some kind of idea about the upcoming legal entanglements, so he attempted to cover his tracks quickly. He added, “It didn’t work.”
The former rapper was asked if he signed the NDA in exchange for the publishing rights. He responded, “(Diddy) can’t tell me not to do anything. Because we had a contract when we first got into business and it said that you was going to help me further my career. That didn’t work. So now any other contract that you have for me, I’m avoiding it too.”
Curry continued, “So since we’re going to be disrespectful, we’re going to be disrespectful all the way around the table. It just ain’t going to be you telling me and me listening. So I’ll be like, cool. That ain’t gonna stop me from doing nothing.” The former rapper shared that upon receiving the contract, he got rid of it.
On the podcast, he revealed about leaving the recording company in 2005 and said that he was drained creatively and monetarily under the label. His debut album never came to fruition and he also alleged about not receiving a dime for the singles he recorded under the label.
He reportedly left the industry and settled in Georgia, working as a carpenter. In 2009, he released a book titled Dancing With The Devil: How Puff Burned The Bad Boys of Hip Hop. In that, he mentioned his difficult dynamics with Diddy and the label.
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