Diddy‘s attorneys have requested a choose to limit statements made by potential wintesses and their attorneys exterior of court docket … citing one grand jury witness particularly who retains chatting with the press.
The music producer’s workforce filed the paperwork Sunday … asking the choose to expedite the method of responding to Diddy’s movement for a gag order as a result of one witness — a person named Courtney Burgess — has given a number of interviews in latest days.
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TMZ caught up with Burgess and his lawyer, Ariel Mitchell, exterior the courthouse Thursday … with Mitchell telling us Courtney was known as to testify as a result of he has or has seen salcious movies of Diddy and his celeb mates.
Courtney has made related claims to different information retailers … all of which Diddy’s workforce has stated are unfaithful and defamatory.
Diddy’s workforce says — by not treating such claims as an “extortion rip-off” — the federal government is fueling the web conspiracy hearth and is making it unimaginable for his or her shopper to obtain a good trial.
The federal government has been investigating Diddy for nearly a 12 months, his attorneys say, and so they know the alleged “Freak Offs” by no means concerned males, minors or events. Diddy’s attorneys particularly cite data in articles from a selected media outlet that has erroneously said Freak Offs contain “males” and “events.”
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As you recognize … Diddy was arrested again in September on fees of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
He is presently locked up in MDC Brooklyn awaiting trial … and, plenty of civil litigants have filed lawsuits in opposition to the rapper in latest weeks as nicely.
