As Diddy’s home of playing cards crumbles round him, his interior circle speaks out in a brand new documentary.
Referred to as “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy,” the 90-minute documentary, covers the disgraced and at present incarcerated rapper and music mogul’s early years.
It options unique interviews with Sean Combs’ childhood associates, former bodyguard, former staff, alleged victims, and singer Al B. Certain! (who was married to Combs’ late ex, Kim Porter, 1989 to 1990).
Combs, 55, is in federal custody, awaiting trial on expenses of prostitution, intercourse trafficking and racketeering. He was arrested on Sept. 16.
In October, there have been additional reviews of Combs’ alleged “freak off” intercourse events, which federal prosecutors declare generally concerned girls who have been threatened or coerced into performing grueling, hourslong intercourse acts. Each women and men have claimed they have been sexually assaulted by Combs in a wave of lawsuits over the previous a number of months.
The rapper, who was denied bail for a 3rd time in November 2024, is at present behind bars on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn. He has denied the entire allegations made towards him.
“As Mr. Combs’ legal team has emphasized, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus,” an legal professional for Combs mentioned in an announcement in October.
“That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors,” the assertion continued. “He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court if and when claims are filed and served, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”
Listed below are a number of the greatest bombshell allegations from the documentary.
Combs was allegedly bullied as a child
Tim Patterson, who was a childhood buddy of Combs, mentioned on display within the doc, “He is public enemy No. 1 right now.”
“A lot of things that are being attached to Sean now, I can’t condone any of the things that I’ve heard or seen,” he added. “He’s monsterized now. But monsters are made. That’s my little bro.”
Patterson mentioned that he met Combs after they have been each younger kids in Mount Vernon, New York.
“He was looked at as the rich kid. Sean was the kid that people could smell was not tough,” he mentioned.
“Sean was always bullied,” Patterson alleged. He recalled a much bigger child who “would pick on [Combs] and hit him and make him cry and take his bike and just do mean stuff.”
An allegation that Kim Porter was murdered
Singer Al B Certain! (nee Albert Joseph Brown III), 56, was concerned with Combs’ late ex, Kim Porter, earlier than she dated Combs. Al B. Certain! and Porter had a baby collectively, Quincy Brown. Porter died of pneumonia at age 47 in 2018.
Onscreen within the doc, Al B. Certain! mentioned about Porter’s dying, “her murder. Am I supposed to say ‘allegedly?’”
He claimed that he noticed Porter shortly earlier than her dying, and he or she seemed like she was in good well being. After he heard she died of pneumonia, he alleged that he had a sense of, “Nah, something is not right with this.”
Al B. Certain! claimed, “After Sean starts to see Kimberly, Kimberly and I remain friends. She starts to confide in me. What she did say is, ‘Something is not right. His soul has gone completely dark like he’s just not there.’”
He alleged that Porter made him promise not to talk about what she advised him about her life with Combs, “because she was in complete fear of my life.”
The singer added, “Before her death, she was keeping a diary and things of that nature. Someone got the passcode to her phone and her computer, and they found out she was writing what was going on behind closed doors.”
Porter additionally had three kids with Combs: son Christian, and twin daughters, Jessie and D’lila.
Textual content onscreen within the doc mentioned that in 2024, Porter’s kids launched an announcement saying “there was no foul play” in her dying and known as the rumors “false and hurtful.”
Extra onscreen mentioned that the Los Angeles Police Division “stated they had no suspicion of foul play and that there was no criminal involvement in Kim Porter’s death. The coroner’s office determined that her official cause of death was lobar pneumonia.”
Diddy accused of raping lady with TV distant
Ashley Parham, who spoke on display with out displaying her face, claimed she met one in every of Combs’ associates at a bar in early 2018, who was truly a “scouter” for Combs. The buddy allegedly FaceTimed Combs, the place she instructed to the mogul that he had “something to do with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.”
One month later, Combs’ pal allegedly invited Parham to his residence. She claimed Combs arrived with a number of different folks, and “gang-raped” her as revenge for her Shakur feedback.
Parham sued Combs in Oct. 2024 over the alleged incident. She alleged that Combs pressed a knife towards her face and threatened to provide her a “Glasgow smile” — a big lower from the corners of the mouth. He then allegedly took off her garments, coated her in liquid, drugged her and raped her with a TV distant.
Per her submitting, Combs and two different males then allegedly raped her anally earlier than she was vaginally raped by a fourth man. Parham claimed that Combs and his associates advised her, “They could ship me off to anyone in the world and I would never be seen again by my parents or my loved ones, and they were taking me that night.”
She alleged that she finally escaped from Combs’ home and ran to a neighbor’s residence.
“This sheriff didn’t offer me an ambulance, he didn’t offer me a ride to the police station. He just basically told me to find my own way home. There was just something very off about his demeanor,” Parham alleged. Her lawyer, Ariel Mitchell, mentioned that when she later contacted the cops, they claimed that Parham’s report from that evening had been filed. Textual content onscreen mentioned that the documentary producers requested information from the police, however that request was denied.
“I’ve become incredibly reclusive,” she mentioned within the doc. “I don’t trust anyone.”
Textual content on display additionally learn that Combs’ attorneys mentioned that Parham’s allegations “[w]ere fabricated based on false narratives that the media and certain plaintiffs and their lawyers have been perpetuating without regard for the truth.”
An allegation that he used his staff to lure girls
A former Unhealthy Boy worker spoke out anonymously, with out showing on digital camera. He defined that he wished to obscure his id as a result of “Sean Combs, for over three decades, allegedly he’s had people hurt.”
The worker mentioned that he met Combs in 2015 or 2016.
“One of the first times I really started getting close with [Combs], he gave me some Bad Boy gear and told me this is blood in, blood out. Blood out, that means you’re dead. When you’re in that situation, you kind of feel forced and bound,” he claimed.
The worker alleged that inside “months” of working with Combs, “He started sending me on these missions” that have been “way outside” the job description for an worker at a file label.
He alleged that Combs would ship him to golf equipment and inform him to “put on your Bad Boy gear, go cruise for girls, bring them back to the house.”
The worker additionally alleged that he noticed Combs have intercourse with ladies who have been “for sure” underage.
Textual content onscreen mentioned that Combs’ legal professional replied to that allegation by saying, “in court the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone – adult or minor, man or woman.”
His mother allegedly had wild events
Patterson, who lived in Combs’ home with him throughout their childhoods, claimed that Combs’ mom, Janice Combs, threw wild events.
He alleged that from a younger age, Combs “was around all type of alcohol, he was around reefer smoke. He was around drug addicts, around lesbians, around homosexuals, he was around pimps and pushers. That was just who was in our house.”
Patterson additionally alleged that they have been uncovered to intercourse from a younger age, though he didn’t specify how younger.
“At night, it wouldn’t be a thing to mistakenly walk into one of the bedrooms and you got a couple in there butt naked. That’s what we were privy to. This is what we were fed,” he mentioned.
Patterson added, “Was it desensitizing us? I’m sure it was. Were we aware of it? No. That was just Saturday night.”
His bodyguard claimed Diddy ‘could have’ been concerned in The Infamous B.I.G’s homicide
Gene Deal, who was Combs’ bodyguard from 1991 to 2005, reminisced about being there the evening that The Infamous B.I.G, aka Biggie Smalls (nee Christopher George Latore Wallace), was killed in a drive-by taking pictures in 1997 at age 24.
The perpetrator stays one in every of rap’s greatest mysteries, however the documentary addresses rumors that Combs was concerned.
Deal recalled “it was crazy” the week that B.I.G. received murdered as a result of Biggie Smalls “was telling people he had to be in London,” however Deal recalled that “Puff was telling people he ain’t going to London that whole week.”
After Biggie Smalls received shot and was dropped at the hospital, “Puff ran out the hospital door and grabbed my arm and said, ‘Gene, we’ve got to pray,’” Deal claimed.
Deal recalled that he replied to Combs, “‘Pray for what? That n—- is dead, bro.’ [Combs] just was stunned. He had this look in his eye like he couldn’t believe [The Notorious B.I.G.] was dead,” the previous bodyguard recalled.
When requested if he thought Combs had any involvement in B.I.G’s dying, Deal mentioned, “I think that he placed B.I.G. in that atmosphere. So did he directly have something to do with it? He could have.”
Textual content on display famous that Combs has at all times denied having involvement in B.I.G.’s dying.
In 2017, Combs mentioned on “The Wendy Williams Show,” “I’ll always feel some form of responsibility because I’m in this thing with him. He’s my artist. He was supposed to go to London that night and I let him talk me into not going to London and staying in LA. And that’s something that really bothered me throughout my life.”
In response to the doc, Combs’ attorneys mentioned in an announcement Monday: “These documentaries include unchecked claims and provide platforms for baseless conspiracy theories without accountability or evidence. In the case of the Peacock documentary in particular, the motivations and credibility of those being interviewed must be questioned.”
“Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy” premieres on Peacock Tuesday.
