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JUST IN: CNN Hit With Stunning New Allegations In Bombshell Filing
CNN is in hot water again after an embattled rapper accused the network of destroying key evidence in advance of his trial.
Lawyers for Diddy, the infamous hip hop mogul arrested earlier this year on sexual assault charges, filed a bombshell allegation last week that the media outlet is to blame for destroying the only copy of a videotape showing him physically abusing former girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
In a letter, the rapper’s attorneys wrote that CNN purchased the tape, which shows Diddy in 2016 chasing Ventura down a hotel hallway in a bath towel, beating her and dragging her by the hair back to his room. After initially denying Ventura’s story about the incident at the since-shuttered Los Angeles InterContinental Hotel, Diddy apologized in May of 2024 after security camera footage surfaced online.
“CNN purchased the only known copy of the Hotel’s surveillance footage, uploaded that footage into a free editing software, altered the video and then destroyed the original footage, even though it knew about and repeatedly reported about the federal investigation,” defense attorneys claimed in the letter, the Daily Caller reports.
Sources told TMZ that the physical tape was the only known copy in existence. Despite its disappearance, footage of Diddy beating Ventura is easily available online, and his attorneys have filed a motion seeking to prevent it from being played at his upcoming trial.
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According to new documents filed by Diddy’s lawyers claim CNN destroyed the only known copy of the 2016 video in which Diddy is seen beating Cassie in the hallway of an L.A. hotel.
“CNN purchased the only known copy of the Hotel’s surveillance footage, uploaded that footage into… pic.twitter.com/lq7lRXLfGm
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) March 13, 2025
Authorities are not prosecuting Diddy for the assault but plan to use the footage to demonstrate his tendency to fly into a rage, verbally and physically abusing women around him, defense lawyers wrote.
The defense claimed CNN altered the footage by “covering the time stamp and then changing the video sequence.”
“It also includes speeding up the video to make it falsely appear that the actions in the video are taking place faster than they are,” they said in the letter, according to TMZ. “As a result, the CNN videos do not fairly and accurately depict the events in question.”
The outlet also reported that the presiding judge is likely to require a physical copy of the video footage to be entered into evidence if it is to be played at trial, meaning its destruction by CNN may leave prosecutors without a key piece of evidence to convict Diddy.
In September, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had charged the formerly high-flying hip-hop star with sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation for the purpose of prostitution. From 2008 to the present, prosecutors allege, Diddy led a ring of sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice” that coerced young women into performing sexual acts at “freak off” parties inside his Beverly Hills, California mansion.
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