The mother of currently incarcerated U.S. rapper Sean Diddy Combs has criticized the Netflix-released series about her son for including “falsehoods” and “inaccuracies about his upbringing and family life.”
These inaccuracies and falsehoods “are intentionally done to mislead viewers and further damage our reputation,” Janice Combs wrote in a statement exclusively picked up by Deadline.
Sean Combs’ mom criticizes Netflix
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Netflix premiered last December 2 the series “Sean Combs: The Reckoning”, a documentary about the life of the controversial rapper who also goes by the name of Puff Daddy, and with which the platform is achieving great success.
Having been in the Manhattan courtroom with her grandchildren for nearly every day of the two-month trial in which her son was prosecuted for sex trafficking, among other charges, Janice Combs maintains that the documentary is “riddled with lies.”
The series has been produced by another artist “50 Cent”, considered an enemy of the prosecuted rapper, and directed by Alexandria Stapleton.
Sean Combs’ mother denies that her son had ever mistreated her, as alleged in the series.
The artist’s lawyers also sent a letter to Netflix not to air the miniseries about the controversial rap star claiming that it uses “stolen” material.
A spokesperson for Combs hit out at accusations against Netflix for using “stolen material that was never authorized for release” and called the series a “disgraceful propaganda piece.”
Combs previously filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal for another documentary about the artist that aired on Peacock: “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.”
The artist, founder of Bad Boy Records and the driving force behind the careers of musicians such as The Notorious BIG and Danity Kane, is now serving time after being convicted in July of two counts of transportation for prostitution.
After a trial that lasted two months, Combs, 55, was exonerated of the most serious crimes he faced, sex trafficking and racketeering.
Prosecutors accused Diddy of forcing his now ex-girlfriends into encounters with male sex workers that typically involved the use of drugs, such as ecstasy or ketamine, and could last for days.
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With information from EFE
