NEW YORK, Dec 4 \u2014 An explosive docuseries about Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs \u2014 produced by his longtime rival 50 Cent \u2014 has been released on Netflix, despite the disgraced music mogul\u2019s attempts to block its airing.<\/p>\n
The four-part Sean Combs: The Reckoning\u00a0chronicles the career and dramatic fall of the 56-year-old rapper and record executive, who was sentenced in October to 50 months in prison for prostitution-related crimes.<\/p>\n
During his trial, a New York court heard how he coerced his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura into performing so-called \u201cfreak offs\u201d \u2014 sexual marathons with hired men that Combs directed and sometimes filmed.<\/p>\n
The Netflix series features interviews with other associates who detail his allegedly predatory behavior, as well as with two people who claim that the hip-hop star sexually assaulted them.<\/p>\n
Combs\u2019s lawyers had sought to halt the show\u2019s Tuesday release, sending a cease-and-desist letter to Netflix a day earlier claiming an apparent copyright violation.<\/p>\n
They point to footage in the show of Combs speaking with his legal team days before his September 2024 arrest, in which he urges them to \u201cfind somebody that will work with us, that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirty business of media and propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n
Juda Engelmayer, Combs\u2019s spokesperson, told AFP that the artist had been capturing the video to \u201ctell his own story, in his own way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is fundamentally unfair, and illegal, for Netflix to misappropriate that work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Netflix, in a statement cited by the Washington Post, said the footage of Combs was legally obtained.<\/p>\n
Engelmayer also complained that rapper Curtis \u201c50 Cent\u201d Jackson was allowed to executive produce the documentary series, calling him a \u201clongtime adversary with a personal vendetta who has spent too much time slandering Mr Combs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair have a feud that dates back to the mid-2000s, when 50 Cent released a diss track accusing Combs of knowing who murdered famed rapper The Notorious B.I.G. in 1997.<\/p>\n
Combs was convicted in July of two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution. But a jury acquitted him of the most serious charges: sex trafficking and racketeering.<\/p>\n
He is currently being held in a low-security federal prison some 80 miles (130 kilometres) south of New York. He is due to be released in May 2028. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n
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