The 55-year-old rapper, currently incarcerated while awaiting trial on charges related to sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation for the purpose of engaging in prostitution, has initiated legal action against the network and production company Ample regarding assertions made in their documentary titled ‘Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.’
Documents submitted in New York, which were acquired by the Page Six column of the New York Post, indicate that the film alleges Diddy has engaged in “numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, the rape of minors, and the sex trafficking of minors, while attempting to crudely psychologise him.”
Furthermore, the documents state: “It maliciously and ceaselessly jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Combs is a ‘monster’ and ‘an embodiment of Lucifer,’ drawing ‘many similarities to Jeffrey Epstein.’”
The complaint elaborates on the purportedly false assertions disseminated by NBC and Peacock in January, including an implication that the ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ artist played a role in the 2018 death of his former partner Kim Porter, with whom he shares four children, despite her death being officially attributed to pneumonia.
In the documentary, Kim's former partner, Al B. Sure!, raised questions regarding her death, suggesting that she was "gone because she was going to be the next Cassie Ventura," a reference to another of Diddy's former partners who had previously sued him for rape and later reached a settlement out of court.
The legal representatives of the rapper contended that the film insinuated he was responsible for "murdering the love of his life and mother to his children," despite the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office determining that her death was due to natural causes and affirming that there has "never been any evidence of foul play."
However, the documentary included the coroner's conclusions and noted that law enforcement had discovered "no criminal involvement in Kim Porter's death."
Additionally, they questioned the credibility of Sure as a source, as producer Ari Mark was aware of Sure's "weird, very kind of complicated relationship with Sean Combs,"
The complaint also criticized the "unhinged conspiracy theory" suggesting that the founder of Bad Boy Records had a role in the deaths of record executive Andre Harrell and rapper Dwight 'Heavy D' Arrington Myers, who passed away from heart failure in 2020 and a pulmonary embolism in November 2011, respectively.
The lawsuit asserted: “By maliciously promoting the unhinged narrative that Mr. Combs is a serial killer — with absolutely no evidence or logic to stand on and in the face of clear evidence to the contrary — the Defendants spread fake news of the most damaging kind.”
Additionally, the lawsuit contested the revival of a claim made by producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones in a $30 million lawsuit, wherein he alleged that Diddy assaulted underage women. However, the ‘Last Night’ rapper contended that the women had previously come forward to clarify that they were not minors and had never witnessed anything untoward happen at the parties.”
Diddy’s legal team indicated that they had informed NBC and Ample around December 10 of the previous year that the allegations presented in the documentary were “unequivocally false” and had been “debunked and lack any credible evidence,” yet the documentary proceeded regardless.
The lawsuit further stated: “The defamatory statements published by Defendants about Plaintiff have directly and proximately caused Plaintiff substantial reputational and financial harm, and damaged his right to a fair trial on the government’s charges against him.”
The rapper’s attorney accused the creators of the documentary of having “maliciously and recklessly broadcast outrageous lies.”
