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Unbelievable : Diddy Seeks Gag Order After New Witness Claims He Has Rapper’s Sex Tapes Involving 8 A-Listers…
Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a motion in court requesting a gag order to silence a grand jury witness accused of making false claims against him.
Courtney Burgess, who claims he has sex tapes from Diddy’s parties, as well as the real Kim Porter’s memoir, has been going around giving interviews, which doesn’t sit right with the rapper.
The man revealed that a federal grand jury subpoenaed him to turn in every piece of evidence in his possession as investigations into Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged sex crimes continue.
Diddy’s lawyers have moved to secure a gag order that’ll restrict statements made by potential witnesses and their lawyers outside of court, particularly for Burgess, who has given multiple interviews in recent days.
According to TMZ, the document, filed on Sunday, seeks to expedite the process of responding to Diddy’s motion for a gag order because Burgess’s allegedly false statements pose a significant threat to the embattled rapper’s reputation and right to a fair trial, as claimed by his lawyers.
Diddy’s lawyers say the government is helping stoke online conspiracy theories by not treating Burgess’s claims as an “extortion scam.”
They cited a particular news outlet’s article that erroneously stated Freak Offs involve “men” and “parties but argued that the alleged “freak offs” never involved men, minors, or parties.
Burgess has been making headlines recently, claiming he has or has seen disturbing videos of the “Bad Boy for Life” rapper “victimizing” at least eight of his celebrity friends, which Diddy’s lawyers said were untrue and defamatory.
On Thursday, Burgess and his attorney, Ariel Mitchell, appeared before a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan to testify for a grand jury.
He had earlier revealed that a grand jury had subpoenaed him after claiming he had sex tapes from Diddy’s parties and the real memoir of Kim Porter, Diddy’s late ex-girlfriend and mother of 4 of his kids.
Burgess claims the videos came from a flash drive owned by Diddy’s ex, the late Kim Porter, who’d reportedly obtained the footage from hidden cameras in the rapper’s home.
Sources with direct knowledge told TMZ that the subpoena from federal prosecutors asked Burgess to “turn over all records, including thumb drives, hard drives, electronic storage devices, or devices containing videos and/or other files depicting Diddy.”