Disgraced and incarcerated music mogul claims footage in docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning was stolen

Sean “Diddy” Combs has taken issue with a splashy new Netflix docuseries on his life and many legal troubles, that is executive produced by his longtime rival 50 Cent.

The former Bad Boy Records executive and hip-hop star, currently serving a four-year sentence for prostitution-related charges, blasted Sean Combs: The Reckoning as a “shameful hit piece”, and accused Netflix of incorporating stolen footage.

The four-part series, to debut on Netflix on 2 December, purports to offer a “staggering examination of the media mogul, music legend and convicted offender”, including never-before-seen footage of Combs and his inner circle in years. A new teaser released on Monday includes a clip of Combs from 10 September 2024, as the walls of his federal sex crimes case were closing in.

“We’re losing,” he says in a hotel room, cell phone in hand, before he calls for “somebody that’ll work with us that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirty business”.