Diddy launches $100m lawsuit against NBCUniversal over documentary... ahead of sex trafficking trial

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has launched a $100million defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal and Ample Productions over explosive documentary, Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy. The complaint, filed in the Supreme Court of New York State Wednesday, claims the documentary - which aired on NBC and Peacock in January - assumes Combs 'has committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologize him.'.

The disgraced rapper, 55, is currently behind bars awaiting trial at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center following his arrest last year on sex trafficking, racketeering and prostitution charges. He denies all the allegations and has  been denied bail multiple times. The suit, obtained by Page Six further alleges: 'It maliciously and baselessly jumps to the conclusion that Mr. Combs is a ‘monster’ and ‘an embodiment of Lucifer’ with ‘a lot of similarities to Jeffrey Epstein.'.

Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy gave insight into the mogul's decades long career and included never-before-seen footage of him. His former Uptown Records label mate Al B. Sure!, who dated Kim Porter before her relationship with Combs, was filmed questioning Porter's cause of death, cited as lobar pneumonia, and claimed she was 'gone because she was going to be the next Cassie Ventura.'. Sean 'Diddy' Combs has launched a $100million defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal and Ample Productions over explosive documentary, Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy - pictured 2018.

Ventura, who dated Combs from 2007-2018, claimed Diddy brutally beat and sexually abused her for over a decade throughout their tumultuous relationship in a 2023 lawsuit. Months after Cassie's lawsuit sent shockwaves through the industry and the star settled with Diddy, CNN released footage from a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 showing Diddy repeatedly assaulting Cassie in a hall. Combs' attorneys claim in the lawsuit the documentary accused him of 'murdering the love of his life [Porter] and mother to his children' despite an autopsy revealing she died from natural causes.

The Los Angeles County Coroner's official cause of death determination was aired in the film, along with a line from the LAPD that there was  'no criminal involvement in Kim Porter’s death.'. NBC and Ample Productions were criticized in the suit for using Sure as a source, with mention made of producer Ari Mark's comments to THR of Sure's 'weird, very kind of complicated relationship with Sean Combs.'.

Combs' attorneys also lambasted an 'unhinged conspiracy theory' that the rapper was involved in the deaths of The Notorious B.I.G, late record executive Andre Harrell, and rapper Dwight “Heavy D” Arrington Myers. 'By maliciously advancing the unhinged narrative that Mr. Combs is a serial killer — with absolutely no evidence or logic to stand on and in the face of clear evidence to the contrary — Defendants spread fake news of the most damaging kind,' the lawsuit states.

Combs team claim they 'warned' NBC and Ample around December 10 2024 that the film contained 'unequivocally false' allegations that had been 'debunked and lack any credible evidence' - but they still aired the trailer and series. The complaint, filed in the Supreme Court of New York State Wednesday, claims the documentary - which aired on NBC and Peacock in January - assumes Combs 'has committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologize him'.

The disgraced rapper, 55, is currently behind bars at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center following his arrest last year on sex trafficking, racketeering and prostitution charges. He denies all the allegations and has been denied bail multiple times - pictured 2023. Combs' attorneys claim in the lawsuit the documentary accused him of 'murdering the love of his life [Kim Porter] and mother to his children' despite an autopsy revealing she died from natural causes. pictured November 2014 in Atlanta with sons Quincy and Christian.

Combs’ attorney, Erica Wolff, added in a statement to the publication: 'Grossly exploiting the trust of their audience and racing to outdo their competition for the most salacious Diddy exposé, Defendants maliciously and recklessly broadcast outrageous lies in Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy. 'In the purported documentary, Defendants accuse Mr. Combs of horrible crimes, including serial murder and sexual assault of minors — knowing that there is no evidence to support them.

'In making and broadcasting these falsehoods, among others, Defendants seek only to capitalize on the public’s appetite for scandal without any regard for the truth and at the expense of Mr. Combs’s right to a fair trial.'. Combs' lawyers also hit back at a resurfaced claim from Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones’ $30 million lawsuit, which alleges Combs assaulted underage women, claiming the women in question had debunked the claims, were not minors at the time of the alleged incident and 'never witnessed anything untoward happen at the parties.'.