Netflix Defends The Reckoning After Sean Combs Calls Doc Unlawful

Netflix defended its docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning after a spokesperson for the music mogul labeled the venture “unlawful.”

“The claims being made about Sean Combs: The Reckoning are false. The venture has no ties to any previous conversations between Sean Combs and Netflix,” a Netflix spokesperson instructed 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 someday after a rep for Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s at present serving a 50-month jail sentence after being convicted on two costs of transportation to have interaction 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 means,” the assertion continued. “It’s essentially unfair, and unlawful, for Netflix to misappropriate that work.”

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 because the 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 id confidential. One factor about Sean Combs is that he’s at all times filming himself, and it’s been an obsession all through the a long time.”

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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 data with Diddy in 1993. “He wished to be within the flashy, swaggy music trade,” says Burrowes. “He began off dancing, desirous to be in movies. Desirous to be a pop-culture mover and shaker at a time the place issues have been altering. Hip-hop was evolving.”

One other matter coated within the sequence contains Diddy’s alleged plan to maneuver $200 million forward of his September 2024 arrest on costs of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, (Diddy pleaded not responsible to all costs and denied all allegations towards him. He was finally acquitted of the intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs.)

Sean Combs: The Reckoning is now streaming on Netflix.

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