Sean “Diddy” Combs is asking the court to bar potential witnesses ... Lawyers for the disgraced rap mogul had previously filed a motion in late October requesting a sweeping gag order against anyone who could potentially be called to testify.

Celebrating his 55th birthday today behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, Sean “Diddy” Combs wants a federal judge to give him a present of an ubiquitous gag order in both his sex trafficking criminal case and his ever growing civil cases.

Attorneys for Sean "Diddy" Combs complained of a "deluge of improper pretrial publicity" and asked the judge overseeing his criminal case to order potential witnesses to keep quiet. Combs' attorneys,