Attorneys for Sean Combs have asked a judge to impose a gag order on a witness who claims to have video evidence of the rapper “victimizing” his A-list friends.
Combs, 54, was arrested in New York on sëx trafficking crimes in September. He is being held in a federal lockup in Brooklyn while awaiting trial set for May 5, 2025.
Combs and his attorneys asked a judge to silence a witness who claims to have evidence about the music mogul victimizing A-list friends, including minors.
Record executive Courtney Burgess, a longtime friend of Combs, revealed that he has video evidence of Combs’s alleged crimes.
Burgess claims to have the footage on flash drives that Combs’ girlfriend, Kim Porter, provided before her death. The footage was allegedly taken from hidden cameras in Combs’ homes.
Burgess has been asked to turn over any video or photographic evidence to the grand jury. It isn’t clear whether he has provided the footage to the grand jury.
The videos reportedly show two male celebrities who were “underage” at the time.
Combs’ attorneys dismissed the claims as part of an extortion or money grab. They asked the judge to silence Burgess and others.
“We write on behalf of our client, Mr. Sean Combs, regarding the deluge of improper pretrial publicity that is undermining Mr. Combs’s right to a fair trial and the integrity of the grand jury proceedings,” said lawyers Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos in a letter sent to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian.
“Given the imminent harm of certain extrajudicial statements relating to the ongoing grand jury proceedings, we request that the court immediately restrain extrajudicial statements by potential witnesses and their counsel during the pendency of the motion,” the lawyers added.
Agnifilo and Geragos asked that the gag order apply to “any individual who claims or has claimed to be a victim of Mr. Combs in connection with the allegations described in the Indictment, ECF No. 1, or any similar or related conduct.”
Prosecutors allege Combs threw lavish “freak-off” parties where drugs, alcohol and naked women were plentiful.
A-listers such as former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were on the guest list.
Other bold names on his guest lists include BET Networks’ Debra Lee, Queen Latifah, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Russell Simmons, Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, and more.
There are reports that Sean Combs was arrested and thrown in jail as a warning to his celebrity pals to support Kamala Harris.
Combs’s arrest was timed perfectly ahead of the presidential election on Nov. 5
Celebrities who rarely speak out on political issues rushed to endorse Harris in the weeks before the election.
Harris reportedly paid her celebrity pals millions of dollars in campaign donations.
Those same celebrities allegedly appear in videos seized from Combs’ homes in Florida and California in March.
Now they’re looking at prison time if they are drawn into Combs’ criminal case.
