Witnesses Support Man Assaulted By Diddy

Two people who claim to have seen Sean 'Diddy' Combs assault a man and his girlfriend outside an Oscar after party in 2007 have come forward in defense of the couple.

Rechnitzer said Diddy attacked him while he was trying to stop the Bad Boy mogul from hitting on his fiancé. He also claimed Diddy pushed his fiancé and attempted to spit on Marianna Ruiz, a female who was accompanying him and his fiancé.

Britney Spears in Hospital After Standoff

LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears was strapped to a gurney late Thursday night after a three-hour standoff involving her two toddler sons, Kevin Federline, a court-appointed child monitor, police officers, paramedics and a locked bathroom door. She was rolled out of her home in the hills near Mulholland Drive as photographers swarmed and helicopters hovered, and taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center “for her own welfare,” as one police spokeswoman put it.