Diddy sues NBC over documentary

NEW YORK (AP):

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is suing NBC Universal over a documentary that he says falsely accuses him of being a serial murderer who had sex with underage girls as he awaits trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York state court says the documentary, Diddy: Making of a Bad Boy, included statements that NBC Universal either knew were false or published with reckless disregard for the truth in order to defame the founder of Bad Boy Records.

“Indeed, the entire premise of the documentary assumes that Mr. Combs has committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologise him,” the complaint reads. “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.”

Spokespersons for NBC Universal and the entertainment company that produced the documentary, which is also named in the suit, didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment. The documentary premièred last month on Peacock TV, the network’s streaming service.

“From his childhood to becoming a mogul, this raw look at Sean Combs’ journey through exclusive footage and candid interviews explores his rise, controversies and the man behind the music,” a description of the documentary on Peacock’s website reads.

Combs, who is seeking no less than $100 million in damages, has been in Brooklyn federal prison since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.

Combs’ lawsuit says the documentary “falsely, recklessly, and maliciously” accuses him of murdering longtime girlfriend and the mother of some of his children, Kimberly Porter; Christopher ‘The Notorious B.I.G’ Wallace and Dwight ‘Heavy D’ Myers, among other notable names.

Porter died in 2018 at the age of 47 from complications from pneumonia; Wallacewas killed in 1997 in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles at age 24; and Heavy D died from a pulmonary embolism in 2011 at the age of 44.