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 were clear – they destroyed the original video file they received from their source.”

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 recognized copy of the video.

A spokesperson for CNN tells TMZ … “CNN never altered the video and did not destroy the original copy of the footage, which was retained by the source. CNN aired the story about the video several months before 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 recognized copy of the resort’s surveillance footage and uploaded it right into a free enhancing software program, altered the video after which destroyed the unique footage.

However, CNN says Diddy’s attorneys have all of it unsuitable.

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