23rd May, 2024
By Taiwo Okanlawon
Popular streaming platform Netflix has acquired the distribution rights to a multi-part docuseries about various sexual assault allegations against embattled US rapper and business mogul, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
American rapper, 50 Cent, sold the distribution rights to streaming platform.
Diddy has been in the public eye since last November, after several women, including the rapper’s ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura took him to court, claiming they were sexually assaulted.
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, Diddy’s former producer, also filed a lawsuit alleging that the rapper sexually harassed, drugged, and threatened him for over a year.
In March, the United States Department of Homeland Security raided two properties linked to Diddy.
50 Cent has been sharing negative comments on social media concerning the allegations against Diddy.
He also reposted the recent viral video of his colleague assaulting Cassie on March 5, 2016.
In an Instagram post on Tuesday, 50 Cent confirmed that his ongoing project has officially found a home.
The rapper disclosed that Netflix won the rights to the docuseries after a “bidding war involving multiple networks and streaming platforms”.
“TMZ use this fat boy picture of me because their doc went to Tubi LOL it’s ok guys we’re all making good television mines just happens to be the best! NETFLIX wins the bidding war but if more victims keep coming out I’m gonna need more episodes,” he wrote.
The release date and title of the docuseries are yet to be announced.
Diddy first made headlines in November 2023, when Cassie accused him of rape, abuse, and human trafficking during their 10-year relationship. The lawsuit was, however, settled out of court one day after it was filed.
Shortly after his case with Cassie, Diddy was accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in the Manhattan supreme court. A woman named Joi Dickerson-Neal accused Diddy of drugging and raping her when she was a college student at Syracuse University in 1991.
A third woman, on the same day, accused the rapper of sexual assault. The lady alleged that Diddy and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping her and a friend in New York City more than 30 years ago.
In December, Diddy was accused of sexual assault by a fourth victim. A woman accused Diddy, Harve Pierre, the former Bad Boy Entertainment president, and a third individual of sex trafficking and gang rape when she was 17.
On February 26, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a former producer and videographer for Diddy, filed a lawsuit alleging that the rapper sexually harassed and drugged him.
The latest was filed on Tuesday by a former model identified as Crystal McKinney