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What you need to know about the projects

As we await the federal sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs in May – at which his legal team will conduct his defense and he will have the opportunity to testify on his behalf, if he chooses – the allegations against him are being investigated in several documentaries.

Diddy: Making a bad boypremiering January 14 on Peacock, is the latest and looks at the rise and fall of the Bad Boy Records founder. The documentary revisits his early years and transformation into rapper and producer “Puffy” and later “Diddy” with insights from people who knew him along the way. Singer Al B. Sure! – who shared an ex, Kim Porter, with Combs and was publicly critical of him – gives his first interview. There’s also never-before-seen footage of Combs partying at home and in the studio.

Diddy: Making a bad boy now streaming on Peacock. There are two more documentaries about Sean “Diddy” Combs coming soon. (Peacock)

Combs’ so-called partying is central to the criminal case against him. Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York allege that Combs “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires” in what Combs called “freak offs,” or days-long sex sessions. He is accused of forcing women to participate, giving them drugs to keep them obedient, involving male sex workers and secretly filming them to ensure the ‘silence of the victims’. After the “freak offs,” the victims were allegedly given IV fluids to recover from the physical exertion and drug use, according to the complaint.

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Combs has repeatedly denied the allegations against him, including racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. He also faces dozens of civil lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct, the latest of which was filed on Jan. 13 by a Jane Doe accuser who claims he drugged and sexually assaulted her as she walked home from a babysitting job as a 16-year-old in Manhattan in 2000. He has also denied Doe’s claims.

Diddy: Making a bad boy is one of several documentaries exploring the claims against Combs. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who has been critical of Combs for a decade, also has a project in the works with Netflix, and there are more. Here’s a guide to them all.

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Diddy: Making a bad boy

What is it about? Combs’ early years growing up in Mount Vernon, NY, are explored in the 90-minute doc, in which childhood friends provide insight into who he was before he became a hip-hop player. Those who knew him later – including associates, a bodyguard and a make-up artist – reveal what they saw and heard. Al B. Sure, who dated Porter, who died in 2018 before Combs, is also speaking out. Producer Ari Mark said they tried to give the documentary a “more victim-centered approach.”

Biggest revelations: Ashley Parham, who is suing Combs, claims he raped her with a TV remote. Combs’ attorney denied he was “ever even in the same room as” her.

Sure called Porter’s death a “murder,” adding, “Should I say ‘allegedly’?” Porter died of lobar pneumonia, and Los Angeles police “stated that they did not suspect foul play.” Da Band’s Sara Rivers alleged that Combs touched her inappropriately and verbally abused her. An anonymous former Combs employee claimed he sent him out to find girls to bring home for him and claimed he saw Combs having sex with minors. Combs’ childhood friend Tim Patterson talked about Combs’ mother, Janice, throwing wild parties when they were kids, saying this could have been “insensitive” to Combs, who knew about drugs, alcohol and sex, as well as addicts, pimps and pushers.

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Who else is in it? Attorneys Lisa Bloom and Ariel Mitchell, who represent the plaintiffs.

TMZ presents: The Demise of Diddy; TMZ presents: The Demise of Diddy 2: The Indictment; TMZ presents: The Demise of Diddy 3: Inside the Freak-offs

  • Release dates: April 30, 2024, September 27, 2024 and November 12, 2024

What are they about? The team behind the celebrity website has dug deep into Combs’ headlines three times, first when the FBI raided the star’s homes, again when Combs was indicted and a third time to investigate the so-called “freak offs.”

Biggest revelations: Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo spoke out on behalf of the jailed star. He alleged that Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, whose explosive allegations against Combs sparked the federal investigation into Combs, was a willing participant in the “freak-offs.” He claimed that the 1,000 bottles of lubricant seized from Combs’ home by the FBI were merely a “bulk” purchase at Costco. He also claimed that the charges against Combs were a “takedown of a successful black man.” A woman who attended a ‘freak off’ also spoke out.

Who else is in it? Performer Ray J, who knows Combs; Tony Buzbee, who represents the woman suing Combs and Jay-Z for rape (which they both deny); Danity Kane’s Aubrey O’Day; and Suge Knight, among others.

Available soon

Diddy’s fall

  • Release date: The four-part docuseries will premiere over two evenings from January 27

  • Where to watch: Research Discovery (ID), Max

What is it about? The producers behind it Quiet on the set: the dark side of children’s television in collaboration with Rolling Stone investigate the allegations through more than 30 new interviews with Combs’ accusers, former friends and employees. Producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who is suing Combs for sexual assault and harassment, and Thalia Graves, who claimed in a lawsuit against Combs that he forcibly raped her in 2001, are speaking out. D. Woods of Danity Kane, the group Combs brought together on his MTV reality competition Making the Band, is also in it. (Group member Dawn Richard is suing Combs for sexual abuse.)

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Biggest revelations: The document claims to contain “accounts of new voices yet to be announced, including those coming forward for the first time with deeply disturbing stories of their encounters with Combs.” Like the Peacock Document, this project features never-before-seen archival footage of Combs.

Who else is in it? Natania Griffin, who claims Combs, not Jamal “Shyne” Barrows, shot her during the infamous 1999 nightclub shooting and former Vibe and Billboard editor-in-chief Danyel Smith.

Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson’s self-titled docuseries

  • Where to watch: Netflix will stream the project, which is currently in production.

What is it about? Jackson, who initially called the project “Diddy Do It,” is executive producing the docuseries through his G-Unit Film & Television production company, with Alexandria Stapleton directing. After Combs’ arrest in September, they said in a statement that they pledge to “give voice to the voiceless and present authentic and nuanced perspectives,” with proceeds going to alleged victims. It also looks at how Combs’ issues are not reflective of hip-hop culture as a whole.

Biggest revelations: Jackson has been an outspoken critic of Combs, telling the Hollywood Reporter in July, “I’ve been very vocal about not going to Puffy parties and doing things like that.” He said the 2016 surveillance video of Combs attacking Ventura, which was unearthed by CNN in May, ruined Combs’ credibility. “At first he denied it even happened, and then the tape came out – so that means everything [he] says it’s a lie. If anyone watches that, if they have a daughter and can imagine her being in those conditions, that shit is insane. Like, they let him get away with it.

Who else is in it? We’ll see when the first trailer drops.

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