Diddy has filed a $100 million+ defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal and others. Photo Credit: Sean “Diddy” Combs for Cannes Lions Learning / CC by 3.0
Ahead of his May criminal trial, Diddy is once again firing back against the many allegations he’s facing – this time with a $100 million defamation lawsuit targeting Peacock’s Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.
Diddy (real name Sean Combs) and his legal team submitted that straightforward action today, naming as defendants NBCUniversal, Peacock, and production company Ample Entertainment.
In a separate defamation complaint, the disgraced mogul is still seeking upwards of $50 million in damages from Courtney Burgess and attorney Ariel Mitchell.
As we noted late last month, the older of the defamation complaints accuses Burgess of fabricating Diddy allegations (and lying about the related “Diddy tapes,” which Combs says are nonexistent), with Mitchell purportedly amplifying the claims.
Said amplification is attributable in part to Peacock’s The Making of a Bad Boy, which premiered on January 14th despite multiple pre-release warnings from Diddy’s counsel.
Running with those important background details, the just-filed action centers on the “purported documentary” itself.
The work, Diddy and his counsel maintain, is “advancing the unhinged narrative that Mr. Combs is a serial killer” while simultaneously fueling “fake news of the most damaging kind.”
Per the complaint, The Making of a Bad Boy “falsely, recklessly, and maliciously accuses” Diddy of murdering his former partner Kimberly Porter, the Notorious B.I.G., Uptown Records founder Andre Harrell, and Heavy D.
Unsurprisingly, Diddy and his legal team are denying these allegations – including by describing in relative detail the natural causes that claimed each listed individual’s life (the exception, of course, being Biggie Smalls).
“He was heartbroken by their untimely deaths and the completely unfounded accusation that he murdered multiple of his closest confidantes is deeply distressing, offensive, reckless, and malicious,” the suit reads in part.
Also absurd (at least as the plaintiff sees things) is the documentary’s purported insinuation that Diddy tried to murder Al B. Sure!, who appears in The Making of a Bad Boy.
The early Uptown signee’s “medical problems were consistent with complications associated with his bariatric surgery” as opposed to attempted murder, the action indicates, and “there is no support whatsoever for his baseless claims.”
Lastly, the lengthy suit takes aim at the above-highlighted “Diddy tapes” remarks from Burgess and Mitchell, besides refuting alleged assertions that Diddy “was having sex with and was sex trafficking underage girls” years back.
Overall, NBCUniversal and the other defendants are allegedly “maliciously perpetuating” the “vile rumors” about Diddy with The Making of a Bad Boy. Needless to say, the massive pile of damages sought for this alleged defamation is significant.
But perhaps the most noteworthy position here – likewise expressed in the initially summarized defamation suit– is that the defendants “have also threatened his [Diddy’s] ability to have a fair trial on the government’s charges against him.”
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