Jury will be shown footage of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs physically assaulting Cassie Ventura, judge rules

Footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, will be shown to the jury in his criminal sex trafficking trial, which is scheduled to begin next month.

Footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, will be shown to the jury in his criminal sex trafficking trial, which is scheduled to begin next month. After numerous attempts to exclude the 2016 hotel footage, which was first reported on by CNN, the judge denied the Combs’ attorneys requests to eject the damning footage at a hearing on Friday. Despite numerous attempts to exclude the footage from evidence, Combs previously admitted in May 2024 to physically assaulting Ventura. After CNN released the video, Combs posted an apology on his Instagram account, saying, “My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video.” In its attempt to exclude the 2016 footage, Combs’ defense team had claimed it was inaccurate. “We can eliminate at least many of the defense’s concerns through technology,” Judge Arun Subramanian said Friday. Prosecutors said at the court appearance they had a video expert working on adjusting some of the footage. “CNN never altered the video and did not destroy the original copy of the footage, which was retained by the source,” a spokesperson for CNN said in a statement last month. “CNN aired the story about the video several months before Combs was arrested.”