Netflix defended its docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning after a spokesperson for the music mogul labeled the mission “unlawful.”
“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,” a Netflix spokesperson informed Us Weekly in a Tuesday, December 2, assertion. “The footage of Combs main as much as his indictment and arrest have 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 artistic management. Nobody was paid to take part.”
Netflix’s feedback come in the future after a rep for Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s at the moment serving a 50-month jail sentence after being convicted on two prices of transportation to interact in prostitution, known as the doc a “shameful hit piece” in a press release to Us.
“Mr. Combs has been amassing footage since he was 19 to inform his personal story, in his personal approach,” the assertion continued. “It’s essentially unfair, and unlawful, for Netflix to misappropriate that work.”
Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Photographs Sean “Diddy” Combs has taken authorized motion in opposition to NBC after the discharge of Peacock’s documentary Diddy: The Making of a Dangerous Boy. Us Weekly can affirm that Diddy, 55, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, February 12, in opposition to NBCUniversal Media, Peacock TV and Ample manufacturing firm for “defamatory statements” made within the movie, […]
Concerning 50 Cent’s involvement in The Reckoning, which incorporates never-before seen footage of Diddy in addition to the musings of a number of associates, the assertion learn, “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.” (50 Cent has been in a well-documented public feud with Diddy for the reason that early 2000s.)
The assertion was additionally issued with a stop and desist letter addressed to the streamer.
Director of The Reckoning, Alexandria Stapleton, beforehand stated she had acquired footage of Diddy to be used legally. “It got here to us, we obtained the footage legally and have the required rights,” she said 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 all the time filming himself, and it’s been an obsession all through the a long time.”
50 Cent’s upcoming Netflix docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged legal historical past has a protracted story to inform. “This can be a story with vital human influence. It’s a advanced narrative spanning a long time, not simply the headlines or clips seen up to now,” 50 Cent, 49, and the sequence’ director, Alexandria Stapleton, stated in a brand new […]
The documentary contains the ideas of former collaborators and friends who touch upon Diddy’s skilled pursuits, together with Kirk Burrowes who cofounded Dangerous Boy information with Diddy in 1993. “He wished to be within the flashy, swaggy music trade,” says Burrowes. “He began off dancing, eager to be in movies. Eager to be a pop-culture mover and shaker at a time the place issues have been altering. Hip-hop was evolving.”
One other subject lined within the sequence contains Diddy’s alleged plan to maneuver $200 million forward of his September 2024 arrest on prices of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to interact in prostitution, (Diddy pleaded not responsible to all prices and denied all allegations in opposition to him. He was in the end acquitted of the intercourse trafficking and racketeering prices.)
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is now streaming on Netflix.
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