Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is suing NBCUniversal, Peacock and production company Ample for $100 million, following the release of their documentary ‘Diddy
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is taking legal action against NBCUniversal, seeking damages of $100 million (£80 million).
Combs, 55, has lodged a lawsuit against the network and production company Ample over allegations made in their documentary ‘Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy’.
The rapper is currently awaiting trial on charges including sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation for prostitution. Combs denies all charges.
Diddy’s lawyer Erica Wolff said in a statement: “NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Peacock TV, LLC, and Ample LLC made a conscious decision to line their own pockets at the expense of truth, decency, and basic standards of professional journalism.”
As per documents filed in New York and obtained by the New York Post, the film suggests Diddy has “committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologise him.”
The documents further state: “It maliciously and baselessly jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Combs is a ‘monster’ and ‘an embodiment of Lucifer’ with ‘a lot of similarities to Jeffrey Epstein.”
The complaint also details alleged false claims aired by NBC and Peacock in January, including an insinuation that the ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ singer contributed to the 2018 death of his intermittent partner Kim Porter – mother to four of his children – despite her cause of death being attributed to pneumonia.
In the documentary, Kim’s ex-partner questioned her death and claimed the model was “gone because she was going to be the next Cassie Ventura”, referring to another of Diddy’s ex-partners, who sued him for rape.
The rapper’s legal team have fiercely defended him against a documentary that they say falsely accuses him of “murdering the love of his life and mother to his children”, and said there has “never been any evidence of foul play.”
Moreover, the complaint attacked the outrageous “unhinged conspiracy theory” that Diddy was implicated 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 states: “By maliciously advancing 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 — Defendants spread fake news of the most damaging kind.”
Diddy’s legal team say they warned NBC and Ample around Decmeber 10 last year, but it still went ahead and aired.
The lawsuit is slamming defendants for slandering the rapper, alleging: “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.”
His lawyer, Erica Wolff, lambasted the network and producers for “grossly exploiting the trust of their audience and racing to outdo their competition for the most salacious Diddy exposé, Defendants maliciously and recklessly broadcast outrageous lies in ‘Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.'”
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