Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit over a new documentary which details his alleged crimes.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court, lists NBCUniversal, streaming service Peacock and production company Ample Entertainment as defendants, accusing them of causing Combs “severe reputational and economic harm” with their “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy” documentary, which premiered on Peacock January 14.
Diddy’s complaint accuses the documentary of taking as fact the numerous federal criminal allegations and civil suits against the rapper and adding in an “outrageous set of fresh lies and conspiracy theories.”
The 99-minute documentary assumes Diddy, 55, “committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologize him” based on accusations from by Al B. Sure, Rodney Jones (who is suing Combs), attorney Ariel Mitchell and others, according to the complaint.
The movie also examines claims that Comb was somehow involved in the deaths of several people including former partner Kimberly Porter (with whom he shares three children) and rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Heavy D.
In the doc, Al B. Sure,whose real name is Albert Joseph Brown III, claims Porter, who died in 2018, “was going to be the next Cassie Ventura.”
Ventura, who also previously dated Combs, sued him for rape in November 2023 but the cases was settled in less than 24 hours.
Diddy’s attorneys maintain that Porter died of natural causes with no evidence of foul play.
While the death of Notorious B.I.G., also known as Biggie Smalls, is an unsolved murder, rapper Heavy D died in 2011 from a pulmonary embolism after a long flight and foul play has never been suspected.
“It 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.”
“In making and broadcasting these falsehoods, among others, Defendants seek only to capitalize on the public’s appetite for scandal without any regard for the truth and at the expense of Mr. Combs’s right to a fair trial,” Diddy’s attorney Erica Wolff said in a statement.
The defendants “made a conscious decision to line their own pockets at the expense of truth, decency, and basic standards of professional journalism,” Wolff added.
Diddy filed another defamation lawsuit last month against Courtney Burgess who alleged the rapper has videos of himself committing sexual assault, including against minors, and against NewsNation for reporting on Burgess’ claims.
Combs, who is in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, has been charged with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution following his September 2024 arrest. He is also being sued for sexual abuse and rape by multiple plaintiffs.