Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has slammed a brand new Netflix documentary about him as “a shameful hit piece”.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has hit out at a brand new Netflix documentary about him
The documentary, titled Sean Combs: The Reckoning, was launched on the streaming service on Tuesday (02.12.25) and is described as a “staggering examination” of the rapper – who was sentenced to 50 months in jail in October on prostitution-related costs.
The four-part sequence contains what Netflix has described as “explosive” footage of Combs, 56, filmed in a phone dialog along with his legal professionals within the days previous to his September 2024 arrest – though the star’s spokesperson stated it was “essentially unfair, and unlawful” to make use of non-public footage.
The assertion stated: “Netflix is plainly determined to sensationalise each minute of Mr Combs’s life, with out regard for fact, so as to capitalise on a endless media frenzy.
“If Netflix cared about fact or Mr Combs’s authorized rights, it might not be ripping non-public footage out of context – together with conversations along with his legal professionals that had been by no means supposed for public viewing. No rights in that materials had been ever transferred to Netflix or any third celebration.”
Diddy’s spokesperson additionally attacked Netflix’s “staggering” resolution to present 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 present 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 folks 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 essentially unfair, and unlawful, for Netflix to misappropriate that work.”
Netflix has not answered the request for a response however highlighted feedback it has revealed from the documentary’s director Alexandria Stapleton.
She stated: “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.”
50 Cent – who has a long-running feud with Diddy courting again twenty years – is an govt producer and felt that it was mandatory 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’ll interpret it as that hip-hop is okay along with his behaviours. There is no-one else being vocal.”
