Gag Order: Birthday Boy Sean “Diddy” Combs Wants Potential Witnesses In His Criminal & Civil Cases Silenced

If the gag order goes ahead, I hope the rape video mysteriously shows up as a torrent.

https://deadline.com/2024/11/sean-diddy-combs-gag-order-witnesses-1236166049/

Hoping it never gets to an actual trial, and building on previous attempts by Combs’ team to stop potential witnesses from speaking to the media or others, the proposed order (read it here) submitted by Agnifilo and Geragos submitted on Sunday reads: “For purposes of this Order, ‘potential witnesses’ include any individual who claims or has claimed to be a victim of Mr. Combs in connection with the allegations described in the Indictment, ECF No. 1, or any similar or related conduct.”

It is Courtney Burgess, the alleged friend of Combs’ now deceased girlfriend Kim Porter, that spurred the latest gag order effort by the defense. Last week, Burgess and his lawyer Ariel Mitchell gave a press conference outside the Manhattan courthouse claiming to have testified before the grand jury, as Deadline reported. The music industry vet and his attorney also asserted they had long-rumored footage of the much accused Combs raping and sexually assaulting several individuals, including some A-listers, in his so-called “freak off” parties. The video is said to feature minors and was found on a flash drive that once belonged to Porter.

With their client facing allegation after allegation, including sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in 2005, Combs’ criminal case lawyers on Sunday called Burgess’ claims “false and outrageous.” Previous civil suits against Combs accuse him of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 and a 16-year-old boy in 1998 among others.

Having had allegations that government agents were behind the leaking of the 2016 hotel security footage of Combs brutally beating then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura rebuffed by the feds, Agnifilo and Geragos are taking a risk on this latest move, extending it to the dozens of sordid civil cases filed against their client so far — claiming it is all about the money. “By treating these ridiculous claims as anything but a pathetic extortion scheme, the government is fueling the fire of online conspiracy theories and making it impossible for Mr. Combs to have a fair trial,” they wrote.