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As of December 2, Netflix customers can signal on to this streaming platform and watch a documentary titled “Sean Combs: The Reckoning.”
It reportedly options interviews and pictures that paint the rapper in a fair worse mild than he’s already been painted in for years, which appears unimaginable.
It is a man who’s at present behind federal bars after getting convicted on two counts of transporting folks for prostitution.
Have you ever examine his alleged freak-offs? Diddy is disgusting.
New York Mayor Eric Adams presents Sean “Diddy” Combs with the keys to town in Instances Sq. on September 15, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Cindy Ord/Getty Photos)
Again to the documentary, although.
“We need to find someone who will work with us who has worked in the dirtiest of dirty businesses,” Sean Combs says within the one-minute trailer for this quasi movie. “We are losing.”
Juda Engelmayer, a spokesperson for the evil star, stated in a press release this week that Combs “has been amassing footage since he was 19 to tell his own story, in his own way.”
Nonetheless, she alleges that Netflix is utilizing his phrases out of context.
The assertion goes on to name-checks Ted Sarandos a number of instances, saying Combs has “long respected” the Netflix CEO and that he “expected fairness from people he respected.”
Furthermore, the rep wrote that fifty Cent (a producer on the venture) is “a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta who has spent too much time slandering Mr. Combs” and that it’s “staggering that Netflix handed creative control” to him.
Sean “Diddy” Combs attends the 2018 Fox Community Upfront at Wollman Rink, Central Park on Might 14, 2018 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Photos)
As a part of this message, the spokesperson for Combs accuses Netflix of utilizing “stolen footage that was never authorized for release” in what she calls a “shameful hit piece.”
(One, in fact, may ask: Can somebody already convicted on the aforementioned fees really be hit in any approach? It’s laborious to think about Diddy’s status struggling any worse at this level.)
In a cease-and-desist letter, attorneys for Combs have threatened to take authorized motion, writing on Monday:
“As you are undoubtedly aware, Mr. Combs has not hesitated to take legal action against media entities and others who violate his rights, and he will not hesitate to do so against Netflix.”
Rapper Diddy performs onstage in the course of the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Heart on September 12, 2023. (Picture Credit score: Mike Coppola/Getty Photos for MTV)
It’s true that Combs beforehand filed a $100 million defamation go well with towards NBCUniversal for a documentary on the musician that it aired on Peacock. It was titled “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.”
The artist has reportedly entered rehab whereas in jail and is hoping to have his sentence decreased.
As for the place Netflix stands?
The documentary’s director, Alexandra Stapleton, has stated the next about this film:
“It got here to us, We obtained the footage legally and have the mandatory rights.
“We moved heaven and earth to keep the filmmaker’s identity confidential. One thing about Sean Combs is that he’s always filming himself, and it’s been an obsession throughout the decades. We also reached out to Sean Combs’ legal team for an interview and comment multiple times, but did not hear back.”
