Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ legal team is asking the judge to muzzle other attorneys from commenting on the disgraced Bad Boy mogul’s case.
Combs’ attorneys, in a letter submitted on Tuesday, expressed their disappointment with the ongoing negative publicity generated by attorneys representing alleged victims and witnesses despite their previous request for a gag order to be put in place. This situation, they argued, is tainting the jury pool in their client’s case.
Combs’ team specifically named Douglas Wigdor, who represents Comb’s ex Cassie Ventura, for speaking to the media.
In their letter addressed to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, Combs’ attorneys emphasized their concern that without a court order, the negative publicity surrounding the case will not only persist but intensify as the trial progresses.
‘Indeed in recent weeks, lawyers for government witnesses have commented on pretrial litigation and continued to broadcast prejudicial statements.’
Specifically, they highlighted remarks made by Wigdor regarding Combs’ efforts to maintain the confidentiality of surveillance footage showing the rapper’s altercation with Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel corridor back in 2016, where he was seen pulling and dragging her by the hair as she attempted to flee.
About a week before Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces potential jurors in his criminal case in New York, his attorneys asked the judge to place a gag order on the attorneys representing alleged victims and witnesses
Attorney Douglas Wigdor, who represents Combs’ ex, Cassie Ventura, has made statements to the media regarding the Bad Boy mogul’s attempt to exclude the viral video of Diddy physically assaulting the singer in 2016
Despite the defense attorneys’ attempt to keep the video out from being played for jurors, the judge ruled it will remain as evidence.
The decision is a big blow for Diddy as his attorneys claim the video initially aired by CNN was ‘edited’ and ‘manipulated’.
Wigdor told DailyMail.com he plans to file a response to the gag order request.
‘We will vigorously oppose the motion seeking an extraordinary sweeping gag order as it is an obvious attempt at controlling and silencing victims and their counsel in contravention of well-established legal and ethical precedent,’ Wigdor said. ‘Given this, it should come as no surprise that Combs fails to cite even one case to support his request.’
Defense attorneys also called out Lisa Bloom, who is also representing another prosecution witness.
Although that witness has not been named, Bloom is representing former singer Dawn Richard, who was a former member of Combs’ girl group, Danity Kane.
Bloom, who has appeared on DailyMail.com’s podcast The Trail of Diddy, has said Richard is in fear for her life.
Richard filed a civil suit against Combs and claims the disgraced Bad Boy mogul sexually assaulted her, deprived her of food and sleep and refused to pay her adequately.
U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian recently ruled jurors will be able to see the viral video of Combs attacking Cassie Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. Combs’ attorneys argued the original video was manipulated to make him look menacing
Members of Sean Combs’ Diddy Dirty Money pose for a picture during an event in West Hollywood in June 2011. From left to right, rapper Red Cafe, Kalenna Harper, Combs and Dawn Richard, who has sued Diddy
Her case is among dozens of claims filed against Combs in New York, California, Florida and Nevada.
Bloom is also representing another alleged victim, who filed his case in the U.S. District Court of Southern New York under the name John Doe.
According to his lawsuit, Doe claims he also was an aspiring entertainer in Las Vegas when he met Combs in 2007.
The man claims he was hired to preform a strip show in a hotel rom in Las Vegas. Doe claims he was offered drinks and baby old was applied on his body that made him disoriented and weak.
‘While in this state, Doe was allegedly instructed by Combs to “engage in acts such as masturbating while Combs and the woman engaged in sexual intercourse,”‘ according to the lawsuit.
Court artist drawing showed a gray-haired Diddy appear in front of Judge Arun Subramanian during his arraignment on a superseding indictment on March 14, 2024
Doe claimed the abuse went on for at least five years. During that period, Doe said he was trapped in a ‘vortex of exploitation and fear’ and subjected him to sexual assaults, death threats, clandestine recording, blackmail and psychological manipulation.’
In an exclusive statement to DailyMail.com, Bloom fired back at Combs’ attorneys.
‘How hypocritical that Mr. Combs and his attorneys, having made public statements many times, now want to silence me,’ Bloom said on Tuesday. ‘Accusers and their attorneys have every right to speak out.
‘I am very proud to represent my brave clients, Dawn Richard and John Doe, in litigation against Mr. Combs. I look forward to attending Mr. Combs’ upcoming criminal trial in New York and continuing to advocate for my clients consistent with the law and the ethical rules.’
Attorney Lisa Bloom, who represents Dawn Richard and another alleged victims, shot back at defense attorneys’ attempts to silence her
Combs has denied all allegations in his criminal case and the various civil litigation.
His defense attorneys said the threesomes were consensual, and the Bad Boy mogul was a swinger.
Combs’ attorneys said Diddy did nothing wrong during his sex parties, which prosecutors claimed were drug-fueled ‘freak offs’.
Federal prosecutors filed a third superseding earlier this month with additional charges of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Combs, 55, faces the same three federal offenses he was originally charged with related to directing a vast criminal enterprise through which he assaulted and trafficked women with the help of his various businesses from at least 2004 to 2024.
He remains in a Brooklyn jail as he awaits for jury selection on May 5.
One of Combs’ attorneys, Marc Agnifilo, said his client will claim that he was part of a ‘lifestyle’, a reference to the term swingers use to describe having group sex
‘Now that the trial witnesses have been identified and trial is imminent, a narrow order restricting the statements of counsel for anticipated witnesses for the duration of trial appropriately balances the constitutional interests at stake,’ Combs’ attorneys wrote in their April 28 letter to the judge.
‘And there is no other remedy that could effectively mitigate the pretrial publicity. For instance, change of venue would do nothing to cure the amount of global press attention.’
