Sean “Diddy” Combs’ claim Feds were behind the leak video showing hip hop emperor He beats me mercilessly Prosecutors say it was a “desperate” ploy by then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura to eliminate “damning” evidence from his bombshell sex crimes case.

Combs and his lawyers “grabbed their sticks” by calling for a Manhattan federal judge to hold a hearing on whether the government leaked information Heartbreaking footage released by CNN of Combs’ attack on Ventura in 2016the feds wrote in a court filing late Wednesday.

The Bad Boy Records founder, who is being held without bail at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, asked Judge Arun Subramanian to order a hearing on the leak allegations; In that case, the court could in theory block the video from being played in Combs’ May 2025. hearing.

But the feds say the hearing request was a backdoor way to hide evidence that Combs was an agent. Serial harasser who commits violence against women.

Combs’ attorneys pressed the issue even though they were aware that the video “was not in the Government’s possession at the time of CNN’s publication,” prosecutors wrote.

The feds separately criticized Combs’ proposals to have prosecutors release a full list of his alleged victims early in the case and to ban people suing him from speaking against him as an “improper” attempt to defend himself against the terrorist organization in the press. a lot Terrifying new cases filed recently it paints him as an immoral sexual predator.

Criminal defendants in federal court have the right to get a full list of witnesses from prosecutors, but the start of the trial is near, the feds write.

Protecting the identities of witnesses who might testify against Combs is especially important in this case because of “serious and ongoing concerns regarding victim and witness safety, tampering, and intimidation,” prosecutors said.

Combs, 54, hit with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges An indictment filed in September portrayed him as a criminal ringleader who harassed, threatened and coerced women for years “to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his behavior.”

Among prosecutors’ most troubling allegations is that Combs forced women and male sex workers into day-long, drugged-out sexual orgies he called “Freak Rates,” which he sometimes recorded for use as leverage.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him, with his lawyers arguing that all sexual relations prosecutors mentioned were consensual.

Representatives for the embattled hip-hop icon declined to comment Thursday.

He is expected to respond with his own legal filing in the coming days.