(Up to date with Netflix response & filmmaker’s assertion) Sean “Diddy” Combs insists that Netflix ought to have by no means acquired into enterprise with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and the streamer ought to undoubtedly not have used “stolen” footage of the incarcerated “All Concerning the Benjamins” performer for a docuseries launching December 2.
Calling out Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and, in a low blow, the exec’s now deceased father-in-law and influential Black Godfather Clarence Avant by identify, Diddy at the moment mentioned that “Netflix’s so-called ‘documentary’ is a shameful hit piece.”
Learn Sean Combs‘ full response to Netflix December 2 debuting 50 Cent produced Sean Combs: The Reckoning under.
Blasting the streamer for giving “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,” the response from the Dangerous Boy Data founder follows a Good Morning America phase Monday AM on the a lot hyped four-part Sean Combs: The Reckoning. “In the present day’s GMA teaser confirms that Netflix relied on stolen footage that was by no means licensed for launch,” Combs’ assertion says of the Alexandria Stapleton-directed sequence.
“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 manner. It’s basically unfair, and unlawful, for Netflix to misappropriate that work.”
Netflix didn’t have a direct assertion in response Deadline’s request Monday for touch upon Combs’ assault on the streamer and The Reckoning. Nevertheless, the streamer did supply remarks from final week by Stapleton on the acquired footage.
“It got here to us, we obtained the footage legally and have the required rights,” the filmmaker mentioned on November 26 in an interview on Netflix’s website. “We moved heaven and earth to maintain the filmmaker’s id 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.. We additionally reached out to Sean Combs’ authorized group for an interview and remark a number of instances, however didn’t hear again.”
After a grueling two month lengthy trial this summer season on expenses of intercourse trafficking and RICO violation, Combs was sentenced on October 2 to 4 years in jail on the 2 lesser counts of transportation to interact in prostitution of which he was really discovered responsible. Nonetheless going through dozens and dozens of civil fits alleging sexual assault and extra, the 55-year-old Diddy escaped a attainable life sentence with the July 2 verdict in no small half on account of overreach and different fumbles by the Maurene Comey-led prosecution from the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York.
At one level within the Reckoning teaser trailer, Combs could be seen and heard on the cellphone telling considered one of his legal professionals “We’re shedding.” He provides: “We’ve to search out somebody that’ll work with us that has dealt within the dirtiest of soiled enterprise.”
Whereas by no means threatening authorized motion (at the least not but) the remarks at the moment from the much-accused Combs through his newish PR chief Juda Engelmayer (of Harvey Weinstein fame) definitely hints at extra to come back. In no small half on account of a really public marketing campaign by Energy franchise EP 50 Cent, extra to come back is greater than could be mentioned of the apparently DOA POTUS pardon that Combs had been angling for from previous pal Donald Trump.
Sean Combs, Donald Trump & Melania Trump on February 6, 2008 in New York Metropolis (Photograph: Getty)
Photograph by JOE SCHILDHORN/Patrick McMullan through Getty Pictures
Then again, after that measured GMA sit-down, 50 Cent was in full trolling mode at the moment. With some digital edits, the ‘In Da Membership’ rapper resurrected the Diddy and Jay-Z connection of earlier this yr when the duo had been co-defendants within the since dismissed and strongly disputed rape of a minor case.
With time served since his September 2024 arrest, Combs is scheduled to be launched in mid-2028, although his sentence was lately prolonged one other month by Bureau of Prisons officers. Now up towards a sexual battery probe from the L.A. County Sheriff’s division and prosecutors out on the West Coast, Diddy is on a quick monitor enchantment course of for his East Coast conviction.
After over a yr in Brooklyn’s harsh Metropolitan Detention Heart, Combs’ request for switch to cushier environment was granted. On October 30 he was moved o the comparatively low-security Fort Dix FCI in New Jersey.
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is produced by Home of Nonfiction, G-Unit Movie & Tv and Texas Crew Productions, with director Stapleton as an EP alongside Jackson, Stacy Scripter, David Karabinas, Ariel Brozell and Brad Bernstein.
Learn Combs’ full assertion on Sean Combs: The Reckoning right here:
“Netflix’s so-called ‘documentary’ is a shameful hit piece. In the present day’s GMA teaser confirms that Netflix relied on stolen footage that was by no means licensed for launch. 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 manner. It’s basically unfair, and unlawful, for Netflix to misappropriate that work.
Netflix is plainly determined to sensationalize each minute of Mr. Combs’s life, with out regard for reality, as a way to capitalize on a unending 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 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.
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, it is a private breach of belief. Mr. Combs has lengthy revered Ted Sarandos and admired the legacy of Clarence Avant. For Netflix to provide his life story to somebody who has publicly attacked him for many years looks like an pointless and deeply private affront. At minimal, he anticipated equity from individuals he revered.
Sean Combs: The Reckoning (Credit score: Netflix)
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