Sean "Diddy" Combs' defense accused CNN of altering and destroying a video showing the rapper physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Hotel surveillance footage, released by the outlet last May, showed Combs and Cassie Ventura engaged in a physical altercation. While the footage has been provided to Combs' defense in his federal sex trafficking trial, the "I'll Be Missing You" rapper now claims it has been "substantially altered." "The defense has confirmed, through a forensic video analysis of the CNN footage that the government provided to this Court and of the footage...

Cassie’s legal team is pushing back against Sean 'Diddy' Combs’ claim that the recently surfaced 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.

The original video of Sean “Diddy” Combs beating his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel was destroyed by CNN, according to the hip-hop mogul’s attorneys. In an evidence letter filed Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court, his defense team claims CNN purchased the surveillance video from the InterContinental Hotel, edited it into the clip seen by millions worldwide and then destroyed the original copy. The assault on Ventura is not part of the federal case against Combs, but prosecutors were seeking to include the video as evidence to argue...

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team and prosecutors in his federal case are claiming that the explosive CNN video that showed him allegedly abusing his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016 was edited, and that the original footage was destroyed, thereby rendering it inadmissible in his trafficking and racketeering case. Last May, CNN released shocking footage of Combs assaulting Ventura at the InterContinental Hotel in 2016, prompting the mogul to issue an apology video addressing the incident. A filing in New York City earlier today claims that CNN purchased the only known...