There’s a brand new docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs hitting the airwaves — this time, it’s a four-part docuseries on Investigation Discovery known as The Fall of Diddy, introduced by the identical firm that produced Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV.
The primary half from the docuseries, “The Making of a Mogul,” aired Monday (January 27) night time, and the remainder will of on Tuesday night. These audiences who occurred to catch Peacock’s current documentary on the identical embattled artist will discover it provides some acquainted faces bringing their harrowing testimonials, together with that of his lifelong buddy who noticed his upbringing firsthand, the hairdresser who witnessed Combs’ girlfriend Cassie Ventura being abused by him, and relations of the victims of the neighborhood faculty crushing incident. (See extra about these tales right here.) There are additionally lots of new and distinctive particulars provided by this docuseries (the pacing of which is a little more forgiving than its predecessor, by the way in which).
Right here’s a have a look at all the pieces we discovered from ID’s The Fall of Diddy.
VIBE‘s editor-in-chief was threatened with bodily hurt over a disagreement.
Danyel Smith, who was the primary girl chief of her journal, stated that she did a canopy shoot with Combs for September 1997’s double problem, which featured him carrying wings as a tongue-in-check assertion for his “Unhealthy Boy” persona. When Combs demanded to see the photographs earlier than publication, which was towards coverage, she declined, and he reportedly threatened her with a risk: “He stated he can be seeing me lifeless in a trunk if I didn’t present it to him.” She later turned the matter over to her lawyer, who demanded and in the end acquired a written apology, however she later discovered that he was seen wandering the halls of the corporate and looking for her in particular person.
Different Howard College college students remembered seeing him assault one other girl.
An nameless girl who went to varsity at Howard similtaneously Combs revealed — together with her face faraway from view resulting from being “nervous” about sharing her story — that sooner or later in 1988, she and her roommate witnessed him beating a girl with a belt exterior of their window. Once they insisted he cease, he yelled again for them to remain out of it and pushed the sufferer again into her constructing.
One bystander nearly bought attacked over a T-shirt.
Dewitt Gilmore, who was concerned with golf equipment in New York on the time, reported being side-swiped by Combs in site visitors after he dared to put on a T-shirt that stated “Loss of life Row East,” an emblem of rival West Coast boss Suge Knight’s crew that was attempting to make a stand on the East Coast forward of the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Infamous B.I.G.
His childhood buddy generally needed to drive residence his dates after fights.
In response to the buddy Combs grew up with, who additionally provided some shudder-inducing tales within the Peacock doc, the romantic relationships he had in his youth had a bodily factor that might generally contain him throwing his dates out of automobiles after a tirade of jealousy, to the purpose that he he needed to even drive his ladies residence. “It simply by no means appeared to get higher with him and relationships,” Tim Patterson defined. “Any woman that’s with Sean must be mounted to Sean’s specs.” One such included the mom of his little one, Mysa Hilton, who he allegedly attacked whereas she was holding their son.
A taking pictures sufferer insists he was the one who did it.
In response to a number of contributors to the docuseries, in a 1999 membership taking pictures, Combs was allegedly concerned in taking pictures somebody throughout a December 26, 1999, membership incident. Wardel Fenderson, a driver, revealed this was the primary time he’d spoken in regards to the incident. After choosing up each Combs and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, he noticed the rapper holding a handgun, and so they went to Membership New York. Natania Griffin, the sufferer of the taking pictures, additionally spoke up within the episode and revealed that she noticed each Combs and rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow have been armed (which he’d later deny) and backing away from a crowd of detractors when Griffin was then shot within the face. Fenderson was instructed by Combs’ safety to escort the rapper and Lopez out of the premises, and he allegedly noticed Combs ditch his gun by way of an open window. Fenderson additionally claimed Combs provided him $50,000 to take the warmth for it, however he determined to cooperate with the prosecutors to implicate Combs within the incident, and possession of the gun. In the meantime, Griffin additionally recognized Combs instantly because the shooter and acquired demise threats and taunts in consequence. Combs was in the end discovered not responsible, whereas Barrow was convicted and later accused him of betraying him.
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