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Diddy's lawyers have asked a judge to restrict statements made by potential witnesses and their lawyers outside of court ... citing one grand jury witness in particular who keeps speaking to the press.

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00:00This is the type of indictment you would expect from someone in the mafia.

00:03I don't know that I could keep him off the stand.

00:05He is very eager to tell his story.

00:08They're going to show that video over and over and over

00:11about what happens to women that won't change their stories.

00:15His reputation is over.

00:17The United States government, they start making this case

00:20as a takedown of a successful black man.

00:24TMZ presents The Downfall of Diddy, The Indictment, now streaming on Tubi.

00:30Diddy's lawyers who are very busy trying to get a gag order in the case now

00:35because they are concerned about the grand jury witnesses

00:40speaking out about their testimony.

00:43And I got to say, I'm pretty sure that they made this emergency motion

00:47for the gag order because of an interview we got last week in New York City.

00:52We were talking to a guy named Courtney Burgess, saw him in New York City.

00:56We knew that he had made allegations in previous interviews that are online

01:02where he's claimed to have these videos of Diddy and other celebrities.

01:08A lot of it is very salacious or at least hinting at something salacious.

01:11So we saw him in New York City. We talked to him.

01:13He offered up out of nowhere.

01:15We didn't know that he'd been there.

01:16And he just said, yeah, I just got done talking to the grand jury.

01:19And yeah, I told him about my videos.

01:22I told him I got this.

01:23And then he said that they are going to another meeting

01:27where they're going to decide what evidence to turn over.

01:30So all of this was out in the public.

01:32And he said this to other outlets as well.

01:34So Diddy's attorneys are really upset about this.

01:38Yeah, so Diddy's attorneys have asked the court to issue a gag order

01:41on all witnesses and counsel.

01:42It's a big deal, right?

01:44Witnesses to grand juries cannot speak about it.

01:47It's part of preserving the grand jury process.

01:51And if you don't have confidentiality,

01:53if you don't have silence,

01:54it can really impact the work the grand jury is doing.

01:58And it can impact later trials,

02:00the evidence that's submitted at trial later on.

02:03And you just don't want this.

02:04You want these folks to keep quiet.

02:05But there's a problem with that,

02:07which is that if, you know,

02:09they come down like a hammer on any of these witnesses,

02:14it could inhibit future possible witnesses

02:18from participating and saying,

02:19look, I don't want to be part of this thing

02:21because I don't want to get ensnared in something

02:23where I get in trouble too.

02:25So it's a double-edged sword.

02:28And they're not parties to this.

02:30They're just offering, you know, testimony.

02:34So, you know, I'm not sure ultimately

02:36how the judge is going to come out.

02:37How does this work when they go in,

02:39if you're a witness,

02:40you go in and testify before a grand jury,

02:42wouldn't the prosecutors remind you?

02:45They ask you not to.

02:46They ask you not to.

02:47Right.

02:47They can't, they have no right to tell you you can't speak.

02:50They just ask you not to.

02:51They ask you not to.

02:52Right.

02:52Well, it's two things.

02:53They'll ask you not to,

02:54but if you speak about your own,

02:56what you've seen in the past, that's fine.

02:58What you can't testify or talk about

03:00is what you told the grand jury.

03:02So it's a bit of a, you know,

03:03But it's the same, it's basically the same thing.

03:05It is the same thing.

03:06Right. Exactly.

03:07And, and look, and the other part of this

03:09is sort of whack-a-mole,

03:11which is that the, some of the civil lawsuits

03:16also now involve these videos.

03:18We have a documentary,

03:21the third installment of the downfall of Diddy,

03:24which is inside the freak ops.

03:26And we get into this with some of the civil lawyers.

03:29They have a ton of video.

03:32So, you know, you can stop it at the criminal level,

03:36but on the civil level, there's no gag orders.

03:39So we will see.

03:40Hi, TMZ.

03:41Alba here from London, UK.

03:43And I'm just going to jump in on the Diddy story.

03:46So yes, obviously his legal team

03:48are pushing very hard now for this gag order.

03:50I do understand.

03:51The thing is, if these allegations cannot be verified

03:54on the very, very serious allegations,

03:56you can understand why they want a gag order.

03:59Nobody wants a trial by media.

04:01But the thing is, I do agree with what you're saying there.

04:03There's a fine line or a balance, if you will,

04:06between his right to a fair trial,

04:08but the public's right to know.

04:10And nobody wants Diddy having the power to silence people.

04:14He's a very powerful man

04:15and nobody wants witnesses being too scared to come forward.

04:19Everyone wants to have their voice heard at trial.

04:22So I just think it's actually going to be really interesting

04:24what the judge does with this.

04:26Yeah, yeah.

04:27By the way, our third installment on this downfall of Diddy

04:33drops a week from tomorrow on Tubi.

04:36It's free.

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