Netflix have defended their documentary about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs after the rapper branded it “a shameful hit piece”.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is sad about Netflix’s documentary
The streaming service launched Sean Combs: The Depending on Tuesday (02.12.25) and the four-part collection consists of “explosive” footage of the 56-year-old star – who’s serving 50 months behind bars after being convicted on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution – on the telephone to his attorneys within the days previous to his arrest in September 2004, which his representatives branded “basically unfair and unlawful”.
Nevertheless, Netflix have now hit again and insisted there may be nothing untoward about The Reckoning.
A spokesperson mentioned in a press release: “The claims being made about Sean Combs: The Reckoning are false. The undertaking has no ties to any previous conversations between Sean Combs and Netflix.
“The footage of Combs main as much as his indictment and arrest had been legally obtained. This isn’t a success piece or an act of retribution. Curtis Jackson [50 Cent] is an government producer however doesn’t have inventive management. Nobody was paid to take part.”
Diddy’s consultant had blasted the usage of personal footage within the collection.
A press release mentioned: “Netflix is plainly determined to sensationalise each minute of Mr Combs’s life, with out regard for fact, to be able to capitalise on a endless media frenzy.
“If Netflix cared about fact or Mr Combs’s authorized rights, it could not be ripping personal footage out of context – together with conversations along with his attorneys that had been by no means meant for public viewing. No rights in that materials had been ever transferred to Netflix or any third get together.”
The I am going to Be Lacking You hitmaker’s spokesperson additionally attacked Netflix’s “staggering” choice to present inventive management on the collection to rapper 50 Cent, who’s described as a “longtime adversary with a private vendetta”.
The assertion learn: “For Netflix to present his life story to somebody who has publicly attacked him for many years looks like an pointless and deeply private affront. At minimal, he anticipated equity from folks he revered.”
The disgraced star’s spokesperson defined that the documentary featured footage that was “by no means authorised for launch”.
They mentioned: “As Netflix and CEO Ted Sarandos know, Mr Combs has been amassing footage since he was 19 to inform his personal story. It’s basically unfair, and unlawful, for Netflix to misappropriate that work.”
The documentary’s director, Alexandria Stapleton, beforehand insisted she had the “needed rights” to make use of the footage.
She mentioned: “It got here to us, we obtained the footage legally and have the required rights.
“We moved heaven and earth to maintain the filmmaker’s id confidential.”
50 Cent – who has a long-running feud with Diddy relationship again 20 years – is an government producer and felt that it was needed for the hip-hop world to deal with the crimes.
The 50-year-old rapper advised Good Morning America: “If I did not say something, you’d interpret it as that hip-hop is ok along with his behaviours. There is no-one else being vocal.”
