Staff Reporter

Incarcerated music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has launched an attack on a new Netflix docuseries chronicling his legal troubles, denouncing the project as a shameful hit piece and accusing the streaming giant of using illegally obtained footage.

The four-part series, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, which debuted on Tuesday, December 2, was produced by Combs’ longtime rival, rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.

Through his spokesperson, the former Bad Boy Records executive, currently serving a four-year prison sentence in New Jersey for prostitution-related charges, claimed the documentary incorporates stolen footage that was never authorized for release.

Combs’s legal team specifically challenged the inclusion of clips showing private moments, pre-indictment material from an unfinished project and conversations involving legal strategy.

A particularly controversial clip featured in a teaser shows Combs in September 2024, days before his arrest, stating, “We’re losing,” and calling for a lawyer who has dealt in the dirtiest of dirty business.

“It is fundamentally unfair, and illegal, for Netflix to misappropriate that work,” Combs’ wrote, arguing that the mogul had been amassing footage since age 19 to tell his own story.

The spokesperson further stated that the use of the material raises serious questions about how this material was accessed and why Netflix chose to use it, confirming that Combs’s legal team has been in contact with Netflix.

Netflix and the documentary’s creative team have denied Combs’s claims.

A Netflix spokesperson told the press that the footage had been legally obtained.

“The footage of Combs leading up to his indictment and arrest were legally obtained. This is not a hit piece or an act of retribution.

“The project has no ties to any past conversations between Sean Combs and Netflix.” Netflix said.

Combs was convicted in July 2025 on two lesser counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, following a federal trial that saw him acquitted of more serious sex-trafficking and racketeering charges.

He was sentenced to 50 months (four years and two months) in prison and is scheduled for release in May 2028, pending sentence reductions.

The controversy arrives as Combs continues to face legal scrutiny, including a new sexual battery allegation from the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department announced just last month.