Assinine: Diddy says assault victim wasn't hit by him but ran into his hand!

SEAN COMBS has defended himself against accusations he assaulted a man at a post-Oscars party last year 2007 by insisting the alleged victim ran into his hand. The rap mogul stands accused of punching Gerard Rechnitzer in the jaw after the 27-year-old objected to Combs' attempts to woo his fiancee at a Roosevelt Hotel party in Hollywood in February 2007. Last month (Jan08), four people came forward with eyewitness accounts backing Rechnitzer's claims. But in legal papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Combs argues that all he did was try to protect himself from Rechnitzer, who is seeking unspecified damages in a lawsuit filed in March 2007.