Stefon Diggs has been in the middle of a host of legal issues throughout the past year, the most serious of which involves a man who has accused the NFL star of sexual assault.
In response to Diggs’ defamation lawsuit against him, Christopher Blake Griffith is firing back with claims that Diggs’ tarnished reputation is due to his personal life and constant bad press.
In Diggs’ defamation lawsuit against Christopher Blake Griffith, the wide receiver claims that the social media influencer damaged his reputation and his income due to his allegations of sexual assault.
Now, via court documents obtained by The U.S. Sun, Griffith says that the state of Diggs’ reputation is due to his recent breakup with Cardi B and his messy personal life that is often the subject of tabloid fodder.
“There is a significant unresolved question as to whether Mr. Diggs’s claimed emotional distress was caused by sources other than Mr. Griffith’s posts on Instagram,” the court filing read. “During the period in question, Mr. Diggs very publicly started and ended a relationship with the musical artist Cardi B, with Mr. Diggs painted as a villain in the tabloid press.”
The court filing also pointed to reports from 2025 after Diggs was photographed on a yacht with multiple women and allegedly using drugs.
“Mr. Diggs was captured on video distributing an unidentified crystalline substance to women partying with him on a yacht, again widely disseminated by the tabloid press, and his performance as an NFL wide receiver declined materially,” the document read. “Any of these could independently account for reputational harm, emotional distress, or lost business relationships.”
According to TMZ, Diggs’ lawsuit states that Griffith fabricated a story about an alleged sexual interaction between him and the athlete at Diggs’ home.
In the lawsuit, Diggs claimed he, Griffith, and other internet personalities spent the night at a club in May 2023 after attending a charity basketball game in Washington, D.C. Diggs then explained that after going to the club, he invited everyone back to his home in Rockville, Maryland.
The lawsuit continued, noting that Diggs claimed that while at his home, he went into his bedroom before having his assistant escort Griffith from the residence.
Griffith claimed that during their interaction, Diggs drugged and sexually assaulted him, and in the aftermath Diggs conspired to have him killed.
“He attempted to have me unalived because of him making a sexual pass at me,” Griffith alleged during a podcast interview. “It wasn’t the sexual pass that frustrated me the most.”
“What made me most frustrated was the fact that he tried to unalive me after it, when in reality, even though I was drugged, even though I was violated, I never thought that the next step would be my life being threatened because you got turned down,” Griffith said.
Per legal documents obtained by TMZ, influencer Griffith along with his legal team, recently filed a motion asking a judge to force Diggs to show evidence, via his financial records, that Griffith’s sexual assault allegations have damaged him financially.
Griffith and his legal team have accused Diggs of “resisting the discovery process” and one of the attorneys said that the football star “does not get to sue and hide,” which is in reference to Diggs’ November 2025 defamation lawsuit.
Additionally, Griffith also alleges that Diggs is attempting to “obstruct any discovery that would test his claims” and that Diggs “can’t have it both ways.”
On February 13, Diggs appeared in Dedham District Court in Massachusetts for his arraignment on assault charges about an incident involving his former live-chef.
Accompanied by his legal team, including attorney Mitchell Schuster, Diggs entered a not guilty plea to the December 2025 charges.
“We’re confident that after the facts and evidence are reviewed in this case, he will be completely exonerated,” Schuster told the media waiting outside the court.
Diggs was formally charged on December 30 with felony strangulation or suffocation and misdemeanor assault and battery charges, after the chef said he strangled her over a payment dispute.