Danity Kane’s Daybreak Richard sued Sean “Diddy” Combs shortly earlier than his September 2024 arrest — and a brand new docuseries exhibits him reacting moments after he bought the information.
“Daybreak Richard simply dropped a lawsuit on me. For $30 million,” Diddy, now 56, says in Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning, which premiered Tuesday, December 2.
Within the footage, Diddy is strolling outdoors in New York Metropolis with members of his entourage. Moments after he mentions the swimsuit, he snaps a photograph with a fan. When the fan leaves, he resumes discussing the lawsuit together with his workforce.
Later, in his resort room, Diddy describes Richard’s accusations as “so fictitious and loopy,” including, “I’m like, ‘What the f***?’”
Diddy goes on to slam Richard particularly in addition to different accusers who sued him within the lead-up to his arrest.
“They’re crashing out,” he says. “This lady that was in my group that was on my final album — you’re on my final album, now hastily I’m this particular person, I’m this monster. F*** that, man. Gloves coming off.”
A title card explains that the footage was filmed by a videographer who Diddy employed to comply with him shortly earlier than his arrest. The filmmakers then “obtained this footage” after he was arrested and brought into custody.
Diddy was arrested on September 16, 2024, and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution. He pleaded not responsible to the fees and denied all of the allegations towards him.
Days earlier, Richard, 42, filed a lawsuit towards Diddy accusing him of verbal abuse, assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional misery. Richard labored with him in Danity Kane and later in Diddy – Soiled Cash alongside Kalenna Harper.
Diddy denied Richard’s allegations on the time in an announcement through his lawyer Erica Wolff.
Danity Kane’s Daybreak Richard shared her response to the Sean “Diddy” Combs verdict in an announcement through her legal professional Lisa Bloom. “At this time’s break up verdict is a disappointment, however the felony prices are completely different than the civil claims we filed and have been combating towards Sean Combs,” Bloom advised Us Weekly in an announcement on Wednesday, […]
“Mr. Combs is shocked and dissatisfied by this lawsuit,” Wolff mentioned. “In an try to rewrite historical past, Daybreak Richard has now manufactured a sequence of false claims all within the hopes of making an attempt to get a pay day — conveniently timed to coincide together with her album launch and press tour. If Ms. Richard had such a damaging expertise with Making the Band and Danity Kane, she wouldn’t have chosen to proceed working straight with Mr. Combs for Soiled Cash, nor would she have returned for the Making the Band reboot in 2020 or agreed to be featured on The Love Album final yr. It’s unlucky that Ms. Richard has forged their 20-year friendship apart to try to get cash from him, however Mr. Combs is confidently standing on reality and appears ahead to proving that in court docket.”
Richard later testified towards Diddy when his trial started in Could, claiming that she witnessed him bodily abusing Cassie, whom he dated on and off from 2007 to 2018. She additionally alleged that Harper, 43, witnessed the alleged abuse, however Harper maintained that she didn’t know what passed off between Cassie, 39, and Diddy.
“I don’t need individuals to assume I’m making an attempt to put on a bulletproof vest for Puff ’trigger I’m not,” Harper says within the docuseries, which was govt produced by 50 Cent. “It’s identical to, I’m not a nasty particular person and I wasn’t round that s***. I don’t f***ing know what they was doing — I don’t know.”
In July, a jury convicted Diddy on two counts of transportation however acquitted him of trafficking and racketeering. Three months later, Choose Arun Subramanian sentenced him to 50 months in jail, together with time served. He was transferred to New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix on October 30 after spending the 13 months since his arrest in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart.
Diddy slammed the docuseries in an announcement shared with Us Weekly through his spokesperson on Monday, December 1.
“Netflix’s so-called ‘documentary’ is a shameful hit piece. At this time’s GMA teaser confirms that Netflix relied on stolen footage that was by no means licensed for launch,” the assertion learn. “As Netflix and CEO Ted Sarandos know, Mr. Combs has been amassing footage since he was 19 to inform his personal story, in his personal means. It’s essentially unfair, and unlawful, for Netflix to misappropriate that work. Netflix is plainly determined to sensationalize each minute of Mr. Combs’ life, with out regard for reality, to be able to capitalize on a endless media frenzy. If Netflix cared about reality or about Mr. Combs’s authorized rights, it might not be ripping non-public footage out of context — together with conversations together 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.”
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The assertion continued, “It’s equally staggering that Netflix handed artistic management to Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson — a longtime adversary with a private vendetta who has spent an excessive amount of time slandering Mr. Combs. Past the authorized points, this can be a private breach of belief. Mr. Combs has lengthy revered Ted Sarandos and admired the legacy of Clarence Avant. For Netflix to offer his life story to somebody who has publicly attacked him for many years appears like an pointless and deeply private affront. At minimal, he anticipated equity from individuals he revered.”
Director Alexandria Stapleton beforehand mentioned she had acquired the footage legally.
“It got here to us, we obtained the footage legally and have the required rights,” she claimed to Netflix’s Tudum final month. “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 many years.”
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is now streaming on Netflix.
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