Overview
- On Wednesday a judge gave Christopher Griffith 14 days to hand over his full Instagram direct messages with Stefon Diggs, all text exchanges between the two, and travel documents for May 20–23, 2023.
- The order requires flight receipts, luggage and hotel records and ride‑share receipts for the May 20–23 weekend to test competing accounts of when and where the alleged encounter happened.
- The court denied Stefon Diggs’ request for sanctions against Griffith while rejecting Griffith’s earlier limited production of roughly 100 pages of texts as insufficient.
- The evidence fight follows Diggs’ defamation suit accusing Griffith of damaging his reputation and Griffith’s counterclaim alleging he was drugged and sexually assaulted, with public posts and celebrity statements heightening reputational risk.
- Legal experts say this step deepens discovery and could decide whether the case moves to trial because messaging and travel records are central to proving timing, presence and credibility before depositions and further motions.