LA Judge: Combs Won’t Have to Show Bling

LOS ANGELES – Sean “Diddy” Combs does not have to provide photos of his rings to a man who claims the rapper struck him outside a Hollywood club, a judge ruled Wednesday.

A Superior Court judge denied requests by Gerald Rechnitzer to see photos of the rings Combs wore that night.

The rings were “critical to the biomechanics of this case,” Rechnitzer’s lawyer, Michael M. Marzban, argued in his motion.

However, Judge Robert L. Hess ruled that the photographs weren’t essential.

Rechnitzer’s suit contends that Combs battered him without provocation and caused him to “fly backward several feet” in the parking lot outside a Hollywood Roosevelt hotel nightclub early on Feb. 25.

The suit claims Combs was upset that Rechnitzer’s girlfriend had declined to leave the club with him.

Combs’ lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, has called the allegation a “flat-out lie” and denied Combs hit anyone.