CNN Denies Diddy’s Declare That Community Altered Cassie Beating Video

5:40 PM PT — Diddy‘s authorized staff tells TMZ … “Our written and oral communications with CNN’s counsel was clear – they destroyed the unique video file they obtained from their supply.”

CNN is vehemently denying claims by Diddy’s authorized staff that the cable information community altered footage of him beating Cassie in a resort hallway after which destroyed the one identified copy of the video.

A spokesperson for CNN tells TMZ … “CNN by no means altered the video and didn’t destroy the unique copy of the footage, which was retained by the supply. CNN aired the story concerning the video a number of months earlier than Combs was arrested.”

We broke the story … Diddy’s protection staff claimed Thursday in new court docket docs that CNN bought the video exhibiting Diddy attacking Cassie within the hallway of the InterContinental Lodge in L.A.

Diddy’s camp claims CNN took the one identified copy of the resort’s surveillance footage and uploaded it right into a free modifying software program, altered the video after which destroyed the unique footage.

However, CNN says Diddy’s legal professionals have all of it incorrect.

The Cassie beating video got here out in Could 2024, a number of months earlier than the feds arrested Diddy … and after the footage was launched on CNN, Diddy posted an apology video.