Netflix Defends ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ Documentary Series, After Rapper’s Lawyers Send a ‘Cease and Desist’ Letter Over Alleged ‘Stolen Footage’
From hit songs to hit-piece documentary?
Produced by rival rapper Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson, the documentary series ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ Premiered yesterday (2) on Netflix, and it’s already causing controversy.
The streaming giant had to defend its new documentary about disgraced mogul rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, insisting it is ‘not a hit piece or an act of retribution’.
NME reported:
“It comes after the rapper’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist to the streamer ahead of its airing, claiming that 50 Cent’s new docuseries about the disgraced artist uses ‘stolen’ footage.
The four-part show, titled Sean Combs: The Reckoning, was released on Netflix yesterday (December 2). It was first reported that 50 Cent – real name Curtis Jackson – was working on the doc in 2023. He serves as an executive producer on the project, which was directed by Alex Stapleton.”
Deadline reports that Diddy says the new documentary about him, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, is a “shameful hit piece” and has accused them of airing “unauthorized” and “stolen” footage, demanding that the film be pulled.
He also insist Netflix should’ve never gotten into business… pic.twitter.com/gxciF4oybU
— Akademiks TV (@AkademiksTV) December 3, 2025
Diddy’s team accused Netflix of using ‘stolen footage that was never authorized for release’.
The docuseries is also called a ‘shameful hit piece’.
Combs had allegedly been filming himself for a future documentary.
“‘Sean was making his own documentary since he was 19 years old. This footage was commissioned as part of it’, [Diddy spokesman] said in an email to CNN.
He claimed that the footage seen in Netflix’s trailer, which was filmed six days before Combs’ September 2024 arrest, was intended for that long-running project.”
Footage shown in 50 Cent’s documentary captures Diddy on a phone call just six days before his arrest, saying: “We need to find someone who will work with us who has worked in the dirtiest of dirty businesses. We are losing.”
— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod
(@big_business_) December 1, 2025
Ayo… this new Diddy documentary on Netflix is WILD
The amount of evil allegations being thrown Diddy’s way is insane. One dude in the doc even claims Diddy acted like he was going to cover Biggie’s funeral costs… then saw the price and charged it back to Biggie, making… pic.twitter.com/nf49hSo2Ti
— Cousin Tino
(@TINOISFUNNY) December 2, 2025
Netflix issued a response:
“The claims being made about Sean Combs: The Reckoning are false. The project has no ties to any past conversations between Sean Combs and Netflix. The footage of Combs leading up to his indictment and arrest were legally obtained. This is not a hit piece or an act of retribution.
Curtis Jackson is an executive producer but does not have creative control. No one was paid to participate.”
What feud, I put two of his kids in my scripted Tv shows. I just didn’t like he said fruity shit to me.
and he said fruity shit to me, I don’t like that! LOL @50CentAction247 DEC 2 Netflix • https://t.co/WtNREs3AKy pic.twitter.com/etuuSM2Fo6
— 50cent (@50cent) December 1, 2025
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