The legal fight between stylist and social media influencer Chris Blake Griffith and former NFL wide receiver Stefon Diggs is still working its way through court, and Griffith says he has no intention of backing down.
Griffith has accused Diggs of drugging and sexually assaulting him during a 2023 encounter at the player’s Maryland home, allegations Diggs has firmly denied. Diggs filed a defamation lawsuit against Griffith last fall, claiming Griffith fabricated the story for attention. Griffith later countersued, alleging the assault as well as a retaliatory attack he says Diggs orchestrated through his brother, Darez Diggs, and others. That separate claim against Darez Diggs was resolved when Griffith agreed to a settlement, though the terms have not been made public and his primary lawsuit against Stefon Diggs remains active.
A lawsuit that has spilled into public view
Both sides continue to dispute nearly every detail of what happened that night, with the case increasingly playing out in headlines as much as in court filings. Diggs’s legal team has argued Griffith’s account has shifted over time and has moved to have parts of his emotional distress claims dismissed. Griffith, for his part, says he has turned over more than 100 pages of text and social media messages he believes support his version of events, and has pushed back on suggestions from Diggs’s camp that certain records, including travel documentation, should have come from him rather than the player’s staff.
The dispute drew fresh public attention this month after rapper Cardi B, who shares a child with Diggs, publicly defended him and suggested Griffith’s story had changed over time. Griffith responded directly online, saying he respected her but felt she was not seeing the full picture, and later told reporters he did not understand why he was being accused of lying by people who had not seen the evidence in the case.
Griffith says the case was never about a payout
Griffith has repeatedly rejected the idea that his lawsuit amounts to a financial shakedown, saying he has never demanded a specific dollar amount from Diggs and is not focused on a monetary outcome. He has instead framed the case as a matter of accountability, saying he wants a court to formally establish what he says happened rather than settle privately. Diggs has denied all of Griffith’s claims and maintains that Griffith’s public accusations caused serious harm to his reputation, which forms the basis of his own defamation suit.
What comes next
With Griffith’s claim against Darez Diggs now resolved, attention shifts fully to the central case between Griffith and Stefon Diggs, along with Diggs’s countersuit for defamation. Both lawsuits remain unresolved, and no trial date has been publicly confirmed. Diggs, who was released by the New England Patriots earlier this year, has not filed any criminal complaint related to Griffith’s allegations, and Griffith’s claims have not been tested at trial.
As both sides prepare for further proceedings, the case continues to draw public commentary from figures connected to Diggs, adding another layer to a legal dispute that shows no signs of resolving quietly.
