{"id":661737,"date":"2025-04-09T21:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/warner-bros-seeks-to-quash-diddys-move-to-access-raw-documentary-interview-footage\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:36:15","slug":"warner-bros-seeks-to-quash-diddys-move-to-access-raw-documentary-interview-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/warner-bros-seeks-to-quash-diddys-move-to-access-raw-documentary-interview-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Seeks to Quash Diddy\u2019s Move to Access Raw Documentary Interview Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tWarner Bros. legal reps have asked a New York judge to quash a subpoena from Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs\u2019 legal team that is demanding the raw, unedited interviews and other materials related to two individuals who app<\/a>eared in the Investigation Discovery documentary The Fall of Diddy<\/em>, as the rap mogul\u2019s sex trafficking and racketeering trial looms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCombs\u2019s lawyers filed the subpoena in March seeking all of the unedited recordings from interviews with two individuals who appeared in the four-part documentary series<\/a>, which premiered on Jan. 27. His team also sought any notes or journals sent to producers of the series and records of any payments that may have been made to the two individuals for their participation in the documentary, which looked at the rap mogul\u2019s arrest on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWith jury selection beginning on May 5 and several deadlines approaching in Combs\u2019 Manhattan trial, Warner Bros. attorneys on Tuesday asked federal Judge Arun Subramanian, who is overseeing proceedings, to quash the subpoena, citing \u201creporter\u2019s privilege\u201d as the legal justification for keeping the materials out of view from Combs and his lawyers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMr. Combs seeks outtakes from interviews with two persons featured in the docuseries,\u201d Warner Bros. attorney Thomas Sullivan wrote to Judge Arun Subramanian. \u201cThe interview outtakes it seeks are protected by the reporter\u2019s privilege that applies to unpublished news<\/a>gathering materials.<\/p>\n

\n\tReporter\u2019s privilege protects journalists from being compelled by the court to reveal confidential sources or information. The idea is rooted in First Amendment rights around a free and open press; 49 states and the District of Columbia have enacted Shield Laws relating to reporter\u2019s privilege, but there is no law on the books at the federal level. Prior court decisions and guidance from the Department of Justice have set up hurdles to overcome before the court is forced to overpass a reporter\u2019s privilege to protect sources.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMr. Combs has not met, and cannot meet, his burden to overcome that privilege,\u201d Sullivan wrote to the judge.<\/p>\n

\n\tSullivan identified in the letter that the two individuals the Combs defense is seeking the materials, by description but not by name, as a chef who worked for the hip-hop and fashion mogul and one of his ex-girlfriends; they are referred to as Individual A and Individual B. He posits in the letter that Combs and his lawyers hope to find details in the materials that will be usable against them, should they testify against him.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIndividual A is Mr. Combs\u2019 former personal chef,\u201d the studio wrote. \u201cShe is featured in the docuseries speaking about how Mr. Combs treated her when she was employed by him, as well as about various rumors she heard about his behavior during her time in his orbit,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIndividual B is a former romantic partner of Mr. Combs. She is featured in the docuseries discussing the origins and path of her relationship with him, including one alleged incident of sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe studio\u2019s attorney reminds the judge that interviews with two The Fall of Diddy<\/em> subjects would be hearsay and, therefore, not directly admissible in the federal case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCourts have consistently held that broad subpoenas for journalistic outtakes based on the hope that the unpublished material might<\/em> prove relevant in some way are insufficient to overcome the reporter\u2019s privilege,\u201d Sullivan wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer Judge Subramanian, Combs has until Thursday to reply to Sullivan\u2019s motion to quash. An email sent to Comb\u2019s representative by The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>seeking comment did not receive an immedia<\/a>te reply on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Warner Bros. legal reps have asked a New York judge to quash a subpoena from Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs\u2019 legal team that is demanding the raw, unedited interviews and other materials related to two individuals who appeared in the Investigation Discovery documentary The Fall of Diddy, as the rap mogul\u2019s sex trafficking and racketeering trial looms.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mara-S-Campo-and-Phil-Pines-Still-2-1.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[155472,147042,39146],"class_list":["post-661737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-celebrity-trials","tag-sean-diddy-combs","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}