Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Team Has ‘Very Serious Questions’ About How 50 Cent Obtained Bombshell Footage
50 Cent is the producer of a new docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs. The four-part series will hit Netflix on Dec. 2, and includes footage from the days leading up to Combs’ arrest. Combs and 50 Cent are longtime rivals, and the latter somehow obtained the footage. Combs’ team said they have questions about how the footage became available to the filmmakers.
50 Cent is producing a documentary about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Combs’ trial concluded over the summer, and he is currently serving out his 50-month prison sentence at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey. Just over a month into his sentence, Netflix will drop a docuseries about the trial that includes footage from shortly before Combs’ arrest. 50 Cent serves as the series’ executive producer, and he spoke about wanting to put out a documentary years ago.
“I think it’s important to also let people know that the show is not completely the perspectives of people who did not like Sean,” director Alexandria Stapleton said on Good Morning America. “We weren’t trying to just get the highlights, the salacious details. The real goal was to story tell.”
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ team has questions about how 50 Cent obtained some footage
Cameras followed Combs in the lead-up to his arrest for an unrelated project. Viewers will be able to watch this footage in the series. Combs’ team is not happy about this.
“Today’s GMA teaser confirms that Netflix relied on stolen footage that was never authorized for release,” they said in a statement, per The Guardian. “As Netflix and CEO Ted Sarandos know, Mr Combs has been amassing footage since he was 19 to tell his own story, in his own way. It is fundamentally unfair, and illegal, for Netflix to misappropriate that work.”
The statement went on to question how the documentary team got a hold of the footage.
“None of this was obtained from Sean Combs or his team, and its inclusion raises very serious questions about how this material was accessed and why Netflix chose to use it,” it reads.
Stapleton and 50 Cent insist that they obtained the footage legally, but they declined to reveal their source.
The men have been rivals for years
Combs and 50 Cent are longtime rivals. 50 Cent stated that Combs’ behavior made him feel uncomfortable
“Look, it seems like I’m doing some extremely outrageous things, but I haven’t,” he told People in 2024. “It’s really me just saying what I’ve been saying for 10 years.”
“Now it’s becoming more full-facing in the news with the Puffy stuff, but away from that, I’m like, ‘Yo, it’s just my perspective because I stayed away from that stuff the entire time, because this is not my style,’” he added.
In the months following Combs’ arrest, 50 Cent posted memes about him, publicly criticized him, and said he would do everything in his power to prevent a presidential pardon.
