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Netflix Defends ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ After Diddy’s Cease-and-Desist

Producers say Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson served only as an executive producer without creative control.

Overview

  • Netflix premiered the four-part Sean Combs: The Reckoning on December 2, featuring previously unreleased footage and new interviews.
  • Combs’s representatives sent a cease-and-desist and accuse the series of using stolen, unauthorized material, including pre-arrest hotel footage of legal discussions.
  • Netflix and director Alexandria Stapleton say all footage was obtained legally, no participants were paid, and that executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson had no creative control.
  • The doc includes accounts from alleged victims, former associates, and two trial jurors, and it revisits long-disputed episodes involving Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Biggie” Wallace.
  • Combs is serving a roughly 50-month federal sentence after July convictions on two transportation-for-prostitution counts, with acquittals on sex trafficking and racketeering.