Cassie is pushing back against Diddy’s legal moves as their court battle continues. According to TMZ, the singer has asked a judge to block a subpoena from Diddy’s team that demands she hand over personal writings and financial records.
The subpoena calls for “all draft memoirs, autobiographies, narratives, diaries, journals or notes … and any communications about plans to publish or threaten to publish such a document.” Diddy is also requesting her bank statements. His legal team claims Cassie once told him she had written a book about their relationship and offered to sell it to him for $30 million to keep it private. After Diddy reportedly declined, Cassie filed a civil lawsuit in November 2023 accusing him of sexual assault and sex trafficking. The case was settled just one day later.
Diddy’s team is also working to discredit the 2016 hotel surveillance footage showing him assaulting Cassie. A forensic expert hired by his attorneys argues that the video is not “accurate” or “reliable.” According to court documents, expert Conor McCourt, formerly with the NYPD, raised concerns about both the CNN-released footage and an iPhone recording of it. McCourt claims the CNN version appears sped up due to a process called transcoding, which alters the video’s frame rate.
He also says the iPhone video distorts Diddy’s size and highlights discrepancies in the timecodes between different versions of the footage. “A viewer does not know what happened during those numerous breaks in video,” McCourt said. He concluded that “none of the available video files are accurate and reliable copies of the original.”
Federal prosecutors haven’t officially responded, though they previously confirmed they have the original video. Meanwhile, Diddy has apologized for his actions in the footage, even as he tries to prevent it from being used in court.
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