Team Paid for the Trip, Court Docs Show in Diggs Assault Case

The legal tug-of-war between Stefon Diggs and Chris Griffith just got messier, with newly filed court documents revealing a key detail that’s shaping the discovery battle: Griffith claims Diggs’team footed the bill for the entire May 2023 trip to Washington, D.C. where the alleged assault occurred.

Here’s the wrinkle. Diggs’legal team asked Griffith to hand over all travel records related to that weekend. Griffith’s lawyers shot back with a response that essentially amounts to: if anyone has those documents, it’s you. According to court filings obtained by TMZ, Griffith’s legal team argued that“to the extent travel arrangements, confirmations or related documents exist, they are at least equally within [Stefon’s] possession, custody or control.”That’s legese for: your client organized this whole thing, so the burden of proof isn’t on my guy.

Griffith has already turned over 24 pages of text messages exchanged with Stefon’s support staff, which bolsters his position that the NFL star’s team coordinated the logistics. It’s a smart legal maneuver—essentially flipping the script by saying: you can’t ask us to produce what you already have.

The accusations themselves paint a darker picture. Griffith claims that during the trip, Diggs gave him a candy laced with drugs without his knowledge, then exposed himself and made unwanted sexual advances that Griffith repeatedly rejected. Griffith also alleges that a week later, Diggs’brother Darez Diggs and two others attacked him in retaliation for declining those advances. Diggs has denied all the accusations, and the legal battle kicked off when he sued Griffith for defamation over making these claims public.

What’s notable here isn’t just the accusation—it’s the discovery strategy unfolding in real time. Travel documents, text chains with support staff, and the logistics of who arranged what could become central to establishing the circumstances of that weekend. The fact that Griffith’s team is already pushing back on document requests suggests they’re thinking several moves ahead about where the evidence actually lives.

As of July 2026, the case remains active with both sides digging in. Griffith previously settled a separate 10 million dollar lawsuit against his apartment complex and Darez over the alleged beatdown, but this main case against Diggs himself is far from over.