Published at 9:30 PM, February 12, 2025
NEW YORK CITY (AP)– Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is taking legal action against NBC Universal over a documentary that he states wrongly implicates him of being a serial killer who made love with minor women as he waits for trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
The claim submitted Wednesday in New York state court states the documentary,” Diddy: Making of a Bad Boy,” consisted of declarations that NBC Universal either understood were incorrect or released with careless neglect for the reality in order to libel the creator of Bad Boy Records.
SUBMIT– Sean”Diddy”Combs reaches the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, on June 26, 2022. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP File)
“Indeed, the whole facility of the Documentary presumes that Mr. Combs has actually devoted various abhorrent criminal activities, consisting of serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and tries to crudely psychologize him,” the problem checks out. “It maliciously and baselessly leaps to the conclusion that Mr. Combs is a ‘beast’ and ‘a personification of Lucifer’ with ‘a great deal of resemblances’ to Jeffrey Epstein.”
Representatives for NBC Universal and the home entertainment business that produced the documentary, which is likewise called in the fit, didn’t instantly react to e-mails looking for remark. The documentary premiered last month on Peacock television, the network’s streaming service.
“From his youth to ending up being a magnate, this raw take a look at Sean Combs’ journey through special video footage and honest interviews explores his increase, debates and the male behind the music,” a description of the documentary on Peacock’s site checks out.
Combs, who is looking for no less than $100 million in damages, has actually remained in a Brooklyn federal prison given that his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
Federal district attorneys state he utilized his wealth and impact to persuade female victims and male sex employees into drug-fueled, dayslong sexual efficiencies referred to as “Freak Offs.”
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They state Combs utilized blackmail and violence to frighten and threaten his victims in a pattern of abuse that returns to the early 2000s.
Combs has actually pleaded innocent. His trial is slated to begin in May.
In the criminal case on Wednesday, a federal judge turned down a demand by Combs’ attorneys that a hearing be carried out over 19 pages of Combs’ notes that were drawn from his cell throughout a Bureau of Prisons sweep of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where Combs is held without bail.
Defense attorney state the seizure broke Combs’ humans rights, however Judge Arun Subramanian stated in a written viewpoint that an evaluation reveals the federal government did not deliberately attack Combs’ attorney-client advantage, that proper actions were taken later and the concern is moot due to the fact that district attorneys state they will not utilize any of the details at trial.
In the civil claim Wednesday, Erica Wolff, a lawyer for Combs, stated NBC and the other entities called in the fit “maliciously and recklessly broadcast outrageous lies” in order to “line their own pockets” by driving viewership to the documentary.
“In making and transmitting these frauds, to name a few, Defendants look for just to take advantage of the general public’s cravings for scandal with no regard for the fact and at the expenditure of Mr. Combs’s right to a reasonable trial,” she stated in a declaration. “Mr. Combs brings this suit to hold Defendants responsible for the remarkable damage their careless declarations have actually triggered.”
Combs’ claim states the documentary “wrongly, recklessly, and maliciously” implicates him of killing Kimberly Porter, Christopher Wallace and Dwight Arrington Myers, to name a few noteworthy names.
Porter, a design who had actually been Combs’ long time sweetheart and the mom of a few of his kids, passed away in 2008 at the age of 47 from problems from pneumonia.
Wallace, the rap artist called The Notorious B.I.G., was eliminated in 1997 in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles at age 24.
Myers, the rap artist called “Heavy D,” passed away from a lung embolism in 2011 at the age of 44.
“It shamelessly advances conspiracy theories that do not have any structure in truth, consistently insinuating that Mr. Combs is a serial killer since it can not be a ‘coincidence’ that numerous individuals in Mr. Combs’s orbit have actually passed away,” the problem checks out.
Somewhere else, the grievance states the documentary explored claims Combs made love with minor ladies, pointing out as proof a civil grievance that’s been “completely rejected.” Combs’ attorneys state the females referenced because problem have actually given that verified they were grownups at the time.
