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Josh Grossberg reports that the judge in the Rechnitzer made what I would call a common sense decision: you can't know Diddy private financial statements just because you ask - you have to win something.

If you want a piece of Diddy's bling, you're gonna have to win—and big.

That's the message a Los Angeles judge is sending to a man who's suing Sean Combs, after temporarily rejecting a request to have the rap mogul fork over highly detailed financial statements that could reveal his net worth. ...

According to local wires, Superior Court Judge Robert Hess stated that the only way the California man could gain access to such information about Combs' sources of income is if he's able to persuade a jury of his peers to buy his side of the story when the case goes to trial May 27.