FOUR WITNESSES BACK COMBS’ ‘ASSAULT’ CLAIMS
Four people have come forward to back a man’s claims he was assaulted by SEAN ‘DIDDY’ COMBS at a post-Oscar party last year (07).
The hip-hop star is accused of punching Gerard Rechnitzer in the jaw after the 27-year-old objected to Combs’ attempts to woo his fiancee at a Roosevelt Hotel party on 25 February (07).
The music mogul is now facing four eyewitness accounts backing Rechnitzer’s claims.
The witnesses gave their accounts in papers filed in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday (16Jan08) claiming Combs struck Rechnitzer in "an unprovoked fashion".
One witness, Marianna Ruiz, said in a statement, "I just kind of remember seeing him go flying, not flying as in like feet off the ground, but he went back significantly. "I was just in shock that somebody would … just kind of strike somebody out of nowhere." Rechnitzer seeks unspecified damages in the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in March last year (07).
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