<p id=”par-1_74″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/hip-hop/?swcfpc=1″>Hip-hop</a> mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/jennifer-lopez”>Jennifer Lopez</a> once found themselves at the center of one of hip-hop’s most infamous scandals. It was a chilly December night in 1999 when a night out at Club New York turned into chaos. <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/jennifer-lopez-called-1-night-sean-diddy-combs-complete-nightmare.html/”>Combs and Lopez sparked a media frenzy</a>, brought back into the spotlight thanks to Combs’ arrest and upcoming trial. Now, Combs’ lawyers are fighting to exclude evidence from the night of the shooting. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-sean-diddy-combs-lawyers-want-to-exclude-evidence-from-the-1999-nightclub-shooting-involving-jennifer-lopez”>Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyers want to exclude evidence from the 1999 nightclub shooting involving Jennifer Lopez</h2>
<p id=”par-2_77″>Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial might now involve Jennifer Lopez. <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/sean-diddy-combs-said-jennifer-lopez-doubt-1-great-loves-life.html/”>Lopez and Combs were dating</a> when they were involved in a shooting at Club New York in Manhattan on Dec. 27, 1999. Three people were injured in the shooting, and Combs was accused of firing the gun. Lopez and Combs fled the scene at the time, but police later arrested them. Lucky for Lopez, she did not receive charges for her potential involvement. Combs was also acquitted. </p>
<p id=”par-3_44″>Now, Combs’ current legal battle has brought the nightclub shooting back into the spotlight. According to <a href=”https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14622901/jennifer-lopez-diddy-trial-evidence-1999-club-new-york-shooting.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>DailyMail.com</a>, Combs’ lawyers want to exclude the incident from evidence in the trial. With this in mind, it seems Lopez will hear her name during the proceedings. </p>
<p id=”par-4_52″>According to Combs’ lawyers, the testimony of a witness at the shooting (seemingly Combs’ former chauffeur, Wardel Fenderson) shouldn’t stand. Fenderson claimed Combs tried to bribe him with a $50,000 ring, but no one ever found the ring. “Assuming the story is true would be a ‘fantastical assumption,’” Combs’ lawyers stated. </p>
<p id=”par-5_79″>New York lawyer Pete Gleason previously commented on the possibility of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/jennifer-lopez-considered-witness-sean-p-diddy-combs-trial-expert-says.html/”>Lopez getting dragged into the case</a>. “Jennifer Lopez’s presence the night of the shooting incident and then departing in the same vehicle as Combs makes her a witness with firsthand knowledge and could subject her to being subpoenaed to testify under oath,” he told <a href=”https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/jennifer-lopez-could-be-subpoenaed-in-diddys-lawsuits/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>In Touch Weekly</a>. “If there are any criminal charges or civil claims not outside the statute of limitations, this would likely prove problematic for Lopez.”</p>
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<p id=”par-6_49″>Jennifer Lopez hasn’t publicly spoken out regarding Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal situation. However, a source told <a href=”https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/diddys-meticulous-records-enough-to-hang-half-of-hollywood-excl/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>In Touch Weekly</a> that <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/sean-diddy-combs-expected-exes-like-j-lo-cameron-diaz-stand-source-says.html/”>she worried lawyers would call her</a> because of her past with Combs. Combs and Lopez sustained a romantic relationship from 1999 to 2001 and remained friends after their breakup.</p>
<p id=”par-7_50″>“It’s not like they’ve been going around trashing him, but everyone’s been giving him a seriously wide berth,” the source mentioned. “He’s radioactive at this point, even if he hasn’t been found guilty, his name is mud, and it would be social suicide to have anything to do with him.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_18″>The insider added that Combs expected Lopez to “stand up for him” in the wake of his arrest.</p>
<p id=”par-9_50″>“He’s still in total denial and actually expected all his high-profile friends, and even his exes like J.Lo and Cameron [Diaz], to stand up for him,” the source claimed. “He can’t wrap his head around the fact that everyone’s just dropped him and wants no part of his sordid scandal.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-one-of-j-lo-s-ex-staffers-defended-her-to-the-public-she-did-not-have-any-idea-about-diddy”>One of J.Lo’s ex-staffers defended her to the public: ‘She did not have any idea about Diddy’</h2>
<p id=”par-10_31″>Thea de Sousa, a staff member who worked on Jennifer Lopez’s 2002 film, <em>Maid in Manhattan</em>, wrote <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/jennifer-lopezs-ex-staffer-says-not-deserve-conflated-diddys-crimes.html/”>in Lopez’s defense</a>. She posted to Threads regarding the actor’s involvement with Sean “Diddy” Combs.</p>
<p id=”par-11_80″>“If you knew Jennifer Lopez, if you ever worked with her like I did, or if you were close with people who are like family to her like I am, you would know she did not have any idea about Diddy,” Sousa said, according to <a href=”https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14050743/jennifer-lopez-ex-staffer-speaks-star-connection-diddy.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>DailyMail.com</a>. “She barely drinks, she is not a partier, she isn’t a good time girl, she is a workaholic who uplifts a woman and who was charmed by him for a brief time in her life.”</p>
<p id=”par-12_15″>Lopez “does not deserve to be conflated with [Combs’] shocking and criminal misdeeds,” Sousa wrote.</p>
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