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 Counting on Tuesday (02.12.25) and the four-part sequence contains “explosive” footage of the 56-year-old star – who’s serving 50 months behind bars after being convicted on two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution – on the cellphone 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’s nothing untoward about The Reckoning.
A spokesperson stated in an announcement: “The claims being made about Sean Combs: The Reckoning are false. The mission 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 govt producer however doesn’t have artistic management. Nobody was paid to take part.”
Diddy’s consultant had blasted using non-public footage within the sequence.
An announcement stated: “Netflix is plainly determined to sensationalise each minute of Mr Combs’s life, with out regard for fact, with a purpose to capitalise on a endless media frenzy.
“If Netflix cared about fact or Mr Combs’s authorized rights, it will not be ripping non-public footage out of context – together with conversations along with his attorneys that had been by no means supposed 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 offer artistic management on the sequence to rapper 50 Cent, who’s described as a “longtime adversary with a private vendetta”.
The assertion learn: “For Netflix to offer his life story to somebody who has publicly attacked him for many years seems like an pointless and deeply private affront. At minimal, he anticipated equity from individuals he revered.”
The disgraced star’s spokesperson defined that the documentary featured footage that was “by no means authorised for launch”.
They stated: “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 “obligatory rights” to make use of the footage.
She stated: “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 identification confidential.”
50 Cent – who has a long-running feud with Diddy courting again 20 years – is an govt producer and felt that it was obligatory for the hip-hop world to deal with the crimes.
The 50-year-old rapper informed 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.”
