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The lawyers of Sean “Diddy” Combs have new allegations of bombing over an almost decades of video that shows the music mogul that physically attacks ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, which plays a role in his upcoming criminal proceedings.

In a joint letter to the judge from the defense team and the Combs public prosecutor, who were checked by the USA Today, Combs' lawyers stated that they have charged CNN. In May, Combs' film material on March 5, 2016 made the physical attacks of Cassiesie released in a hotel in Los Angeles.

However, the Combs team claims that “a forensic video analysis of the CNN film material” showed that “it was essentially changed in considerable respect”.

CNN, Combs' lawyers claim, treated the time stamps in the film material and accelerated the video, “to make it wrong to do so that the actions in the video take place faster than they are”. They also claimed that “CNN bought the only known copy of the hotel's surveillance material, uploaded this film material into a free processing software, changed the video and then destroyed the original film material.”

For this reason, the defense will apply for the film material to be excluded from evidence that the jury has been presented to in the upcoming process. Combs previously recognized his violent actions in the film material and claimed in a video that he posted last year, while his senior lawyer described the clips as proof of “toxicity and drug use in the 10-year relationship” and not as a sex trade, as the prosecutors claim.

The US law firm for the southern district of New York rejected a statement. TMZ reported the news first.

CNN denies to change the video of Diddy's attack

In an explanation on Thursday to USA Today, CNN denied the allegations triggered by the Combs team.

“CNN never changed the video and did not destroy the original copy of the film material, which was retained by the source,” said a spokesman for CNN. “CNN broadcast the story about the video a few months before the arrest of Combs.”

In the meantime, the Combs legal team stands for their allegations in the letter on Thursday. “Our written and oral communication with the lawyer of CNN was clear – they destroyed the original video file that they received from their source,” said his lawyers in a statement that the USA presented.

In the letter, which was submitted to the New York Federal Supreme Court on Thursday, both sides presented the questions they wanted to address at the pre -court conference planned for Friday afternoon, including the CNN film material.

When the public prosecutor and the defense presented their positions about when the combs team would share materials and evidence that they would share with US lawyers, the defenders of the hip-hop mogul were revealed that they would present the preliminary materials that they collected in the Friday conference.

Combs is currently in prison after being denied the Bond several times and on May 5th because of his sex trade and charges for villains. He has not guilty for all charges.

Cassie's lawyer says that storm films “represents pretty and exactly what happened”

In a statement that was shared with USA Today on Thursday, the lawyer of Cassie, Douglas H. Wigdor, criticized this last step by the Combs team.

“It is not surprising that Combs would make an insignificant argument to rule out the disturbing video from the jury in the upcoming process,” said Wigdor. “I am confident that the video is pretty and accurate what has happened, evidence is approved and that combs are held accountable for its corruption.”

Shortly after CNN made the video public last year, Combs posted a video in which the incident apologized.

“My behavior in this video is unused,” he said. “I take full responsibility for my actions in this video. I am disgusted. I was disgusted when I did, (and) I'm now disgusted.”

In a TMZ documentary published last year, Combs' senior lawyer Marc Agnifilo argued that the attack material was not relevant for the criminal case of his client.

“Her difficulties did not come together from her tight time. Their difficulties were based on the fact that she cheated on him and he cheated on her,” he said. “And what we see in this video is terrible. It is unforgivable and we are not trying to forgive it. But it is not related to the indictment.”

Diddy's lawyers have occupied doubts about a video in which he previously attacked Cassie

This is not the first time that Combs' lawyers have doubts about the hotel video, as evidence of what US lawyers claim, a widespread sex trade, which was cited by Combs. In November, his team accused the public prosecutor of having presented a “changed” video of him by attacking Ventura to convince a judge that he should not hold on.

Previously, the defense also accused government agents of forwarding the film material to CNN – an assertion that US lawyers were struck as “groundless”. The judge later positioned himself with prosecutors and refused to use Combs to hear evidence to investigate this claim.

Combs and his lawyers have repeatedly pushed back the public prosecutors' claims that the video in 2016 is proof of the alleged sex trade and so-called “freak-offs”. Rather, his lawyers say that the film material shows a “home dispute” and “a sad insight into a decades of mutual relationship”.

In response to alleged videos that the public prosecutors have received from Combs' so-called “freak-offs”, the rapper team made the evidence as a mutual sexual encounters and not as “sexual parties” that show criminal behavior.

In the indictment against the Grand Jury in 2024, which accuses combs for incomprehension, sex trade and transport for prostitution, the public prosecutor claimed that the rapper “applied violence, threats to violence and compulsion to cause victims to deal with expanded sexual files with male commercial workers, who, among other things,” freak “. “

Since Cassies November 2023 sex trade and sexual assault, which claims that it has been raped, raped and vulgared over the course of a decade, the music mogul has suspended dozens of civil laws that accused him of alleged victims that accused him of from the 1990s to 2024.

Combs and Cassie submitted an unknown amount on November 17, one day after submitting their complaint.

(This story has been updated to add new information.)

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