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The lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy Combs are suing NBC over a documentary that compares the disgraced rapper and producer to Jeffrey Epstein and Satan. The lawsuit was filed this week in New York and is seeking $100 million.
According to the New York Post, Diddy’s lawyers have filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal and the production company Ample over the making of the Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy documentary.
The Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy documentary began streaming on Peacock in late January. Diddy himself is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as he awaits trial for multiple federal charges.
“The rapper’s attorneys claim in the complaint that the documentary assumes their client ‘has committed numerous heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologize him.'”
“’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,’” the lawsuit further alleges.” [via New York Post]
This isn’t the first defamation lawsuit that Diddy has filed this year, as he also has sued accuser Courtney Burgess, his attorney Ariel Mitchell, and Nextstar Media, owners of NewsNation, for $50 million, also accusing them of defamation.
The lawsuit claims Burgess fabricated accusations about Diddy during his grand jury testimony, and that Mitchell and Nextstar were part of a “willful scheme to fabricate and broadcast outrageous lies” in order to “gain social media fame, enrich themselves, and strip Mr. Combs of his reputation, livelihood, and a right to a fair trial.”
If Diddy — who was arrested by Homeland Security agents in a New York City hotel in September — is convicted of the charges against him, he faces a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of life in prison.