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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."
In a letter filed in court Thursday, Combs' legal team wrote that "The defense has confirmed, through a forensic video analysis of the CNN footage that the government provided to this Court and of the footage provided by CNN in response to the defense subpoena, that all CNN video footage was substantially altered in significant respects".
They say "This includes covering the time stamp and then changing the video sequence. It also includes speeding up the video to make it falsely appear that the actions in the video are taking place faster than they are.
As a result, the Lawyers say CNN videos do not fairly and accurately depict the events in question."
CNN has denied the allegations, stating that the original copy still exists.
