Sean “Diddy” Combs is firing back at explosive claims made in the Peacock documentary, Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.
The embattled music mogul slapped NBCUniversal, Peacock, and production company Ample Entertainment with a $100 million defamation lawsuit on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in New York state court.
In the complaint obtained by Page Six, the music mogul’s legal team says the 90-minute film “maliciously and baselessly jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Combs is a ‘monster’ and ‘an embodiment of Lucifer’ with ‘a lot of similarities to Jeffrey Epstein.'”
Related: Al B. Sure! Shares ‘The Truth’ About Diddy in Peacock Doc
The documentary, which began streaming on Jan. 14, included an interview with a former Diddy associate who alleged he witnessed the mogul go behind closed doors with underage girls.
“Any time a studio or any room is red, he’s making love and [having] sex. Some of the girls who were in the rooms, for sure they were underage,” the unidentified man alleged.
The lawsuit says the film led viewers to believe Diddy “has committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors.”
The complaint also refers to claims made by R&B singer Al B. Sure!, born Albert Joseph Brown III, who like Combs got his big break at Uptown Records — an upstart label founded by music executive Andre Harrell in the 1980s.
Al B. Sure! said most of the people connected to Uptown’s early years — Harrell, Kim Porter, and rapper Heavy D — have died and he doesn’t think it’s a coincidence.
“A lot that goes on in the industry, which is not my job to uncover. But it’s something that’s been going on in the industry, and those who speak about it usually meet their demise,” he stated.
The documentary did mention the L.A. County coroner’s finding that Porter, who was the mother of three children with Combs and one with Al B. Sure!, died in 2018 from lobar pneumonia.
Still, Al B. Sure! said “something is not right” about her death. The singer also suggested Diddy had something to do with his own health crisis in 2022, which left him hospitalized and in a coma for two months.
The lawsuit insists the film’s producers never should have aired such claims.
“By maliciously advancing the unhinged narrative that Mr. Combs is a serial killer — with absolutely no evidence or logic to stand on and in the face of clear evidence to the contrary — Defendants spread fake news of the most damaging kind,” the lawsuit says.
In a statement, Diddy’s attorney Erica Wolff told Page Six: “As described in today’s lawsuit, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Peacock TV, LLC, and Ample LLC made a conscious decision to line their own pockets at the expense of truth, decency, and basic standards of professional journalism.”
Ample and NBCUniversal, parent company of Peacock, did not respond to the outlet’s request for comment.
Since November 2023, more than three dozen accusers have filed civil lawsuits against Combs alleging sexual abuse. The mogul has denied all of the allegations through his attorneys, who say he “never sexually assaulted anyone — adult or minor, man or woman.”
He is currently jailed in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center as he awaits trial, after being denied bail three times.
A federal judge set his trial date for May 5, 2025.
Below is our interview with Ari Mark, one of the executive producers on Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.
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