{"id":149826,"date":"2025-02-12T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/sean-diddy-combs-sues-nbcuniversal-for-100-million\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:12:20","slug":"sean-diddy-combs-sues-nbcuniversal-for-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/sean-diddy-combs-sues-nbcuniversal-for-100-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean &#8216;Diddy&#8217; Combs sues NBCUniversal for $100 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-02-12\" datetime=\"1739391140\" pubdate=\"\">12 February 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Sean &#8216;Diddy&#8217; Combs is suing NBCUniversal for $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Sean &#8216;Diddy&#8217; Combs is suing for 100m<\/p>\n<p>\nThe  55-year-old rapper &#8211; who is currently in jail awaiting trial over charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution,  &#8211; has filed a lawsuit against the network and production company Ample for claims made in their &#8216;Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy&#8217; documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to documents filed in New York and obtained by the New York Post newspaper&#8217;s Page Six column, the film assumes Diddy has &#8220;committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologise him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe documents added: &#8220;It maliciously and baselessly jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Combs is a \u2018monster\u2019 and \u2018an embodiment of Lucifer\u2019 with \u2018a lot of similarities to Jeffrey Epstein.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe complaint goes on to break down the alleged false claims broadcast by NBC and Peacock in January, including a suggestion the &#8216;I&#8217;ll Be Missing You&#8217; hitmaker contributed to the 2018 death of his on\/off partner Kim Porter &#8211; with whom he had four children &#8211; despite her passing being attributed to pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the film, Kim&#8217;s former partner, Al B. Sure! questioned her passing and alleged the model was  \u201cgone because she was going to be the next Cassie Ventura&#8221;, referring to another of Diddy&#8217;s former partner&#8217;s, who sued him for rape and later settled out of court.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rapper&#8217;s lawyers argued the documentary accused him of \u201cmurdering the love of his life and mother to his children\u201d despite the Los Angeles County Coroner\u2019s Office finding that she died from natural causes and that there has \u201cnever been any evidence of foul play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the documentary had feature the coroner&#8217;s findings and stated police had found &#8220;no criminal involvement in Kim Porter\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThey also questioned the reliance on Sure as a source as producer Ari Mark knew he had a \u201cweird, very kind of complicated relationship with Sean Combs&#8221; because of an interview he gave the Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd the complaint slammed the &#8220;unhinged conspiracy theory&#8221; that the Bad Boy records founder played a role in the deaths of record executive Andre Harrell and rapper  Dwight &#8216;Heavy D&#8217; Arrington Myers, who died of heart failure in 2020 and a pulmonary embolism in November 2011 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe lawsuit stated: \u201cBy maliciously advancing the unhinged narrative that Mr. Combs is a serial killer \u2014 with absolutely no evidence or logic to stand on and in the face of clear evidence to the contrary \u2014 Defendants spread fake news of the most damaging kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe lawsuit also disputed the resurfacing of a claim made by producer Rodney &#8216;Lil Rod&#8217; Jones in a $30 millio lawsuit, in which he accused Diddy of assaulting underage women, but the &#8216;Last Night&#8217; rapper argued the women had already come forward to state they were not minors and had \u201cnever witnessed anything untoward happen at the parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nDiddy&#8217;s\u2019 team claims they warned NBC and Ample around 10 December last year that allegations in the documentary were &#8220;unequivocally false&#8221; and had been &#8220;debunked and lack any credible evidence\u201d but it still went ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe lawsuit added: &#8220;The defamatory statements published by Defendants about Plaintiff have directly and proximately caused Plaintiff substantial reputational and financial harm, and damaged his right to a fair trial on the government\u2019s charges against him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rapper&#8217;s lawyer accused those behind the documentary of having &#8220;maliciously and recklessly broadcast outrageous lies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nAttorney, Erica Wolff said in a statement: \u201cAs described in today\u2019s lawsuit, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Peacock TV, LLC, and Ample LLC made a conscious decision to line their own pockets at the expense of truth, decency, and basic standards of professional journalism.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cGrossly exploiting the trust of their audience and racing to outdo their competition for the most salacious Diddy expos\u00e9, Defendants maliciously and recklessly broadcast outrageous lies in \u2018Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nShe adds, \u201cIn the purported documentary, Defendants accuse Mr. Combs of horrible crimes, including serial murder and sexual assault of minors \u2014 knowing that there is no evidence to support them.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIn making and broadcasting these falsehoods, among others, Defendants seek only to capitalise on the public\u2019s appetite for scandal without any regard for the truth and at the expense of Mr. Combs\u2019s right to a fair trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/sean-diddy-combs-sues-nbcuniversal-100-million-1413648.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 February 2025 Sean &#8216;Diddy&#8217; Combs is suing NBCUniversal for $100 million. Sean &#8216;Diddy&#8217; Combs is suing for 100m The 55-year-old rapper &#8211; who is currently in jail awaiting trial over charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution, &#8211; has filed a lawsuit against the network and production company Ample for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8079],"class_list":{"0":"post-149826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-sean"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}