Sean “Diddy” Combs has a reputation for being frugal and one of his former bodyguards believes that’s probably how the music mogul’s private videos ended up in a Netflix documentary series.
The day before Sean Combs: The Reckoning premiered on Dec. 2, the mogul’s spokesperson Juda Engelmayer issued a blistering statement saying the footage was “stolen,” and slammed executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson for producing a hit piece.
Diddy’s former security guard Roger Bonds thinks it’s unlikely anyone stole the video. Instead, he believes the mogul never paid the photographer.
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Bonds recently posted a video on social media, saying Combs probably tried to “rob” the videographer, who in turn sold the footage to the highest bidder — Netflix.
In his video statement, which was reposted by YouTube channel Media House News, Bonds said he decided to speak out because people were contacting him for his thoughts on how the footage leaked.
“First of all, [Diddy] only deals with young videographers, because he wants to rob them and he knows that they want the opportunity to follow Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy. So, they get them at a low price,” Bonds shared.
“When you stay out so many hours a day, Puff wants a videographer with him 24 hours a day, on call. Whether we on a yacht, whether we’re on a ship, wherever we’re at, he wants to videotape that, right? So now, they come to an agreement, whatever the pay is gonna be,” he explained.
But according to Bonds, once it was time to pay the photographer for working 24-7, Combs likely backed out on the agreement.
“It be so many hours on that invoice that he don’t want to pay,” Bonds said. “He gets in touch with the office, the chief of staff, ‘Yo, what is this I’m paying?'” Bonds said, adding that it was a game for Combs. “You know what you paying, you was outside all of these hours. It’s 160-something hours in a week. You was outside 140! That’s the invoice he put in.”
According to Bonds, when Combs potentially refused to pay the bill, the photographer kept the footage and sold it to someone else.
“Being if you got a contract, and he don’t stand to that contract, guess what happens? [The videographer] can do whatever he wants to do with that footage. So now that footage goes to the highest bidder. And 50 had to be the highest bidder,” he added.
One clip in the documentary showed Combs six days before he was arrested in September 2024. He appeared agitated while talking on the phone to his attorney Marc Agnifilo.
“Things are happening, and it’s like — I want to fight for my life. I want to fight for justice, [for] not guilty. I want to have a life to be able to live. It’s really going to be hard for me to take more hits than I’ve taken, and — God forbid — get in front of a jury and have a chance,” Combs said from a New York hotel room.
“You didn’t do anything wrong,” Agnifilo told him. “You’ve handled this with complete honor.”
“I don’t think it’s working,” Combs responded. “We’re losing.”
Combs’ spokesperson said the doc included “private moments” between the Bad Boy Records founder and his attorneys that “were never intended for public viewing.”
The rep blamed the mogul’s nemesis 50 Cent. Netflix responded with a statement of its own, saying director Alexandria Stapleton obtained the video by legal means.
“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 statement read. “Curtis Jackson is an executive producer but does not have creative control. No one was paid to participate.”
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