Overview
- In a statement released to media outlets, Janice Combs called depictions of her as an abusive parent and a claim that her son slapped her after the 1991 City College tragedy “inaccurate and patently false,” and she requested public retractions.
- Netflix and the filmmakers say all material was lawfully obtained and that the project is not a vendetta, noting the inclusion of previously unseen pre‑arrest footage, Kirk Burrowes’ journals, police archives, and new on‑camera testimony.
- The series revisits decades of allegations of sexual abuse, coercion, intimidation and disputed claims tying Sean Combs to the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., while Combs’ spokesperson labels the production a “shameful hit piece.”
- Some assertions in the doc are being challenged, including a statement from a manager for Biggie’s estate disputing that funeral costs were charged back and Janice Combs’ rejection of Burrowes’ account of a post‑stampede slap.
- Sean Combs is incarcerated on a roughly 50‑month federal sentence following two Mann Act convictions and is appealing; the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirms a new sexual battery investigation, which his civil attorney calls false and defamatory.