Diddy Slams 50 Cent and Netflix Over Surprise Documentary During Jail Time

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs had harsh words for his one-time friend 50 Cent and Netflix after the surprise announcement of a new documentary about him.

Netflix released a surprise trailer for Sean Combs: The Reckoning late last month, and the four-part docuseries — which debuts on Netflix on Tuesday, December 2 — is said to focus on the rise and fall of the 56-year-old Bad Boy Records founder.

In a statement to TMZ, Diddy’s spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, said that ‘Netflix’s so-called “documentary” is a shameful hit piece’ which ‘confirms that Netflix relied on stolen footage that was never authorized for release.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Diddy, 50 Cent and Netflix to request comment, but hasn’t yet received a response.

A major sticking point for Diddy is his contention that Netflix is inappropriately using footage that he has been accumulating since he was a teenager.

Instead, Engelmayer says the footage should have been reserved for Diddy to ‘tell his own story, in his own way.’

He went on to accuse the streaming service of being ‘plainly desperate to sensationalize every minute of Mr. Combs’s life, without regard for truth, in order to capitalize on a never-ending media frenzy.’

‘If Netflix cared about truth or about Mr. Combs’s legal rights, it would not be ripping private footage out of context — including conversations with his lawyers that were never intended for public viewing,’ Englemayer added. ‘No rights in that material were ever transferred to Netflix or any third party.’

However, while speaking to the Netflix-run publication Tudum, The Reckoning director Alexandria Stapleton said of the footage used in the film: ‘It came to us, we obtained the footage legally and have the necessary rights.’

She added: ‘One thing about Sean Combs is that he’s always filming himself, and it’s been an obsession throughout the decades.’

The convicted rap mogul, who is serving 50 months in prison for prostitution offenses, was particularly incensed that the streamer would work with 50 Cent on the documentary, as the In Da Club rapper has long been his public foe.

‘It is equally staggering that Netflix handed creative control to Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson — a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta who has spent too much time slandering Mr. Combs,’ Diddy’s rep said.

He added that, ‘beyond the legal issues,’ the surprise release of the documentary was ‘a personal breach of trust’ between Netflix and Diddy. 

‘Mr. Combs has long respected [Netflix Co-Chief Executive Officer] Ted Sarandos and admired the legacy of [record executive] Clarence Avant,’ Engelmayer continued.

The seemingly out-of-place reference to Avant, while seemingly a non sequitur, appears to be a surprisingly personal jab at Sarandos, as the late record executive was his father-in-law.

After divorcing his first wife, Michelle Sarandos, the Netflix executive married Avant’s daughter, Nicole Avant, who served as the United States ambassador to the Bahamas from 2009 to 2011, during the first Obama administration.

Netflix later released a documentary about Avant, The Black Godfather, in 2019.

‘For Netflix to give [Diddy’s] life story to someone who has publicly attacked him for decades feels like an unnecessary and deeply personal affront,’ Engelmayer continued. ‘At minimum, he expected fairness from people he respected.’

Late last month, Netflix dropped a surprise trailer for The Reckoning. ‘

In the short clip a voiceover could be heard saying: ‘You can’t continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens. It’s just a matter of time.’

The press release for the project read that the docuseries ‘is a staggering examination of the media mogul, music legend, and convicted offender.

It will feature never-before-seen materials which they promise to be ‘explosive’ including exclusive interviews from those in Diddy’s world. 

This came just a month after 50 Cent — real name: Curtis James Jackson III — trolled Diddy yet again as the rapper received a four-year sentence for prostitution offenses.

Diddy, whose full legal name is Sean Love Combs, was ordered to serve 50 months in prison and slapped with a fine of $500,000 by Judge Arun Subramanian on Friday, October 3.

Following his time in prison, the judge sentenced Combs to another five years of supervised release. 

Subramanian said a lengthy sentence was needed for deterrence and that he was unconvinced that if Combs is released these crimes won’t happen again. 

Diddy was convicted on two counts of prostitution charges during a grueling eight-week trial in July, but was acquitted of the two more serious charges against him of sex trafficking and racketeering. 

After it emerged the shamed rapper had booked a speaking engagement in Miami the following week in hopes he would be freed, 50 Cent weighed in on the sentence.

Sharing a court sketch of Diddy crying, he wrote: ‘Hey to whoever was booking Diddy for speaking engagement. I heard he won’t be able to make it, I’m available!’

The judge condemned Diddy for his ‘savage’ abuse of his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and said he was making an example of him because he caused ‘irreparable harm’ to his victims.

The decision came following a disastrous sentencing hearing that saw the judge decide at the start of the day that he would still consider evidence from the acquitted charges as he made his sentencing decision.

50 Cent has been in a longtime feud with Diddy and wrote a ‘letter to the judge’ overseeing his self-proclaimed foe’s case.

The day before the sentencing, October 2, he wrote a post on X asking Judge Subramanian to ‘consider the safety of the general public before unleashing [Combs] upon them.’ 

He also wrote in his letter that he has ‘feared for my life’ over the years as he urged the judge to extend Combs’s time in prison with his forthcoming sentencing.

He said that the amount of time that the music mogul has already spent in prison so far is not long enough for reform, even in spite of the business class he started teaching.

In July when Diddy was acquitted of some of the charges, 50 Cent shared a photo of himself with a huge smile he wrote, ‘Diddy beat the Feds that boy a bad man beat the Rico….’

He previously unleashed a wave of wild, AI-generated images mocking the Bad Boy mogul and the explosive allegations tied to his trial.

His latest jabs came on the heels of his vow to personally reach out to President Donald Trump in a bid to block any possible pardon for Diddy.

Earlier this year, Trump said he would ‘look at the facts’ of the case, acknowledging that he and Diddy once had a friendly relationship.

‘If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me, it wouldn’t have any impact,’ the president added.

But 50 Cent made it clear he intended to remind Trump of the history between them.

‘Donald doesn’t take well to disrespect, and doesn’t forget who chooses to go against him … while working tirelessly to make America great again there is no room for distraction,’ said 50 Cent.

Prosecutors in the case had recommended 11 years behind bars for prostitution charges related to Combs’s wild ‘freak-off’ sex parties.

Diddy stood emotionless and stunned as the judge handed him the sentence, staring straight ahead as he was slated for abusing his victims ‘physically, emotionally and psychologically’. 

‘You abused the power and control you had over the lives of women you professed to love dearly,’ the judge said. ‘Why did it go on so long? Because you had the power and resources to keep it going.’  

The decision came following a tumultuous sentencing hearing that went from bad to worse for Diddy, with the judge deciding at the start of the day he would still consider evidence from sex trafficking and racketeering charges that he was cleared of back in July. 

A courtroom sketch artist showed the star mirroring the iconic ‘Scream’ painting during the proceedings as it appeared to dawn on him that he was facing a lengthy stint in prison. 

Prosecutors then told the judge Diddy had arrogantly arranged speaking arrangements for Monday in Miami, suggesting he didn’t believe he was going to spend any more time behind bars at all. 

Diddy’s attorney Nicole Westmoreland broke down in tears in her floundering argument for a light sentence, claiming he deserved leniency because he was awarded Menswear Designer of the Year by the American Fashion Council in 2004.

‘It wasn’t just about an award, it was about breaking barriers,’ she said, as courtroom reporters said she appeared to start crying. 

The sentence handed down on Friday marks a stunning fall from grace for the 55-year-old who was once one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry. 

He was facing up to 20 years behind bars.

His freedom ended on the night of September 16, 2024, when he was arrested by Homeland Security officials at the Park Hyatt hotel in midtown Manhattan.

And he’s been locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn ever since, originally charged with racketeering and sex trafficking.

But the jury threw out the most serious charges after three days of deliberation only finding him guilty of two charges of transporting former girlfriend Cassie Ventura and another woman for the purpose of prostitution.

The blockbuster trial mesmerized the world as prosecutors and his defense teams went over the mountains of eye-popping evidence from gut-wrenching victim testimony, which involved 1,000s of bottle of baby oil and the infamous 2016 hotel security footage showing him beating Ventura.

Ventura, who was eight months pregnant with her third child with husband Alex Fine, took the stand to testify that the music mogul subjected her to physical and psychological abuse spanning more than a decade, from 2007 to 2018.

She recounted the regular beatings she allegedly endured, along with claims that he used blackmail and intimidation to coerce and control her, forced her into degrading sex acts, and left her with lasting medical consequences.

Ventura concluded her testimony on May 16, just 11 days before she went into labor.