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As of December 2, Netflix customers can signal on to this streaming platform and watch a documentary titled “Sean Combs: The Reckoning.”
It reportedly options interviews and pictures that paint the rapper in a good worse mild than he’s already been painted in for years, which appears not possible.
It is a man who’s at the moment behind federal bars after getting convicted on two counts of transporting folks for prostitution.
Have you ever examine his alleged freak-offs? Diddy is disgusting.
Again to the documentary, although.
“We have to discover somebody who will work with us who has labored within the dirtiest of soiled companies,” Sean Combs says within the one-minute trailer for this quasi movie. “We’re shedding.”
Juda Engelmayer, a spokesperson for the evil star, stated in an announcement this week that Combs “has been amassing footage since he was 19 to inform his personal story, in his personal manner.”
Nevertheless, she alleges that Netflix is utilizing his phrases out of context.
The assertion goes on to name-checks Ted Sarandos a number of occasions, saying Combs has “lengthy revered” the Netflix CEO and that he “anticipated equity from folks he revered.”
Furthermore, the rep wrote that fifty Cent (a producer on the venture) is “a longtime adversary with a private vendetta who has spent an excessive amount of time slandering Mr. Combs” and that it’s “staggering that Netflix handed inventive management” to him.
As a part of this message, the spokesperson for Combs accuses Netflix of utilizing “stolen footage that was by no means approved for launch” in what she calls a “shameful hit piece.”
(One, in fact, may ask: Can somebody already convicted on the aforementioned costs really be hit in any manner? It’s laborious to think about Diddy’s repute struggling any worse at this level.)
In a cease-and-desist letter, attorneys for Combs have threatened to take authorized motion, writing on Monday:
“As you might be undoubtedly conscious, Mr. Combs has not hesitated to take authorized motion towards media entities and others who violate his rights, and he is not going to hesitate to take action towards Netflix.”
It’s true that Combs beforehand filed a $100 million defamation go well with towards NBCUniversal for a documentary on the musician that it aired on Peacock. It was titled “Diddy: The Making of a Dangerous Boy.”
The artist has reportedly entered rehab whereas in jail and is hoping to have his sentence decreased.
As for the place Netflix stands?
The documentary’s director, Alexandra Stapleton, has stated the next about this film:
“It got here to us, We obtained the footage legally and have the mandatory rights.
“We moved heaven and earth to maintain the filmmaker’s identification confidential. One factor about Sean Combs is that he’s at all times filming himself, and it’s been an obsession all through the a long time. We additionally reached out to Sean Combs’ authorized crew for an interview and remark a number of occasions, however didn’t hear again.”
