It’s simple to see why so many individuals have develop into fascinated with the case surrounding music mogul P. Diddy over this previous 12 months. For one, Sean Combs is (or a minimum of was) some of the highly effective figures within the music trade, and the crimes he’s been accused of are really reprehensible. Then throw within the wild particulars like greater than 1,000 bottles of lubricant being seized from his houses in federal raids. The brand new documentary Diddy: The Making of a Dangerous Boy (obtainable with a Peacock subscription) simply hit the 2025 film calendar and dives into Sean Combs’ background, controversies, relationships and lots of the allegations in opposition to him.
I’ve been paying fairly shut consideration to the case — even earlier than Diddy was arrested in September — however there have been nonetheless 3 issues that caught me off-guard within the new documentary.
Diddy Was Bullied As A Baby Amid Dad’s Loss of life, Mother’s Wild Events
The documentary spends a while wanting again at how Sean Combs grew up, and it included some wild tales from those that — a minimum of at one time — have been near Diddy, together with the wild intercourse events that his mother Janice would throw. Gene Deal, Sean Combs’ bodyguard from 1991 to 2005 additionally revealed that Diddy misplaced his father early and in tragic style, saying:
Sean Combs’ father was allegedly a gangster, a hustler and a participant within the streets of New York. His father bought to an undercover cop. This was a New York Metropolis police officer, and he gave the cop data. His father was killed as a result of he was ratting them out.
Diddy’s mom was allegedly left with some huge cash following Melvin Combs’ obvious homicide, with childhood buddy Tim Patterson displaying pictures of the longer term rapper reportedly at 4 years outdated carrying rings and different jewellery. Sean Combs additionally attended non-public college, which led to his being ostracized by different children. Patterson recalled:
This child is wealthy. He was checked out because the wealthy child. Sean was the completely different child. Sean was the child that folks may scent was not robust. Sean was at all times bullied. You understand, getting hit up your head on the aspect of your head one too many instances or getting known as a bitch one too many instances.
Earlier than Diddy: The Making of a Dangerous Boy, I didn’t know so much about Sean Combs’ origins, and far was talked about within the documentary about how his childhood expertise could have influenced his alleged future conduct.
A Former Dangerous Boy Worker’s Account From A Freak-Off: ‘For Positive They Had been Underaged’
A part of that alleged conduct is the now-infamous “freak-offs” which have been a giant speaking level associated to the intercourse trafficking and different fees in opposition to P. Diddy. One former Dangerous Boy worker — whose voice was disguised for his cellphone interview with filmmakers — talked about how he discovered himself doing Diddy’s bidding when it got here to the events, saying:
Look, there ain’t a Diddy occasion that didn’t flip right into a freak-off. One of many first instances I actually began getting shut with this man, he gave me some Dangerous Boy gear and advised me, ‘Yo, that is blood in, blood out.’ Blood out? Meaning you lifeless. If you end up in that state of affairs, you form of really feel compelled and sure.
He went on to say that simply months after he began working with Sean Combs, he was despatched by the document exec to “recruit some ladies” from a close-by membership and convey them again to the home. The ex-employee offered the documentary with unique footage from a few of these gatherings, the place individuals danced and sang in a red-lit room. He recalled:
Anytime the place the studio or any rooms is pink, it’s pink as a result of he really feel just like the frequency for fucking and making love and intercourse. He checked out two of the women and winked his eye and level and say, ‘Y’all come right here.’ And he walked out and left into his room and didn’t come out till a complete ‘nother 24 hours. For positive they have been underage.
Diddy’s authorized group continues to battle this and all different accusations made on the documentary, saying that “the reality will prevail” in courtroom.
Along with the allegations from the nameless ex-employee, there was additionally an in depth account by one sufferer of her alleged assault, as “Ashley” — whose face was not proven — described being drugged, violated with a TV distant and raped by a number of males together with Diddy for hours. The main points she offered have been so extremely heinous that I received’t recount all of them right here, however they are often discovered within the documentary.
Diddy Has Been Surrounded By So A lot Loss of life. Is It A Coincidence?
For years individuals have debated whether or not Sean Combs was concerned in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 homicide, and former bodyguard Gene Deal says in Diddy: The Making of a Dangerous Boy that he even thinks Combs “may have” been concerned in Infamous B.I.G.’s taking pictures. These have been removed from the one deaths mentioned within the Peacock documentary, and I hadn’t realized simply how a lot demise the music mogul has seen. Some who have been interviewed don’t appear to assume that’s a coincidence both.
The 2018 demise of Kim Porter was known as into query, as Diddy’s former longtime accomplice handed away at age 47 from issues of pneumonia. Al B. Positive! (pictured above) believes Porter had a secret diary or was planning to show her ex ultimately, regardless of statements from the LAPD and Porter’s kids that there was no motive to suspect foul play in her demise.
Al B. Positive! additionally pointed to the deaths of his and Diddy’s different associates at Uptown Information — the place Kim Porter additionally labored — with Andre Harrell dying of coronary heart failure and rapper Heavy D passing after a coronary heart assault. The documentary is certain to notice that there’s no proof to counsel their causes of demise weren’t medical. Regardless of the place you fall on the difficulty, that’s a whole lot of tragedy.
Whilst somebody who’s been paying a whole lot of consideration to the authorized case involving P. Diddy, there was nonetheless a lot in regards to the new documentary Diddy: The Making of a Dangerous Boy that caught me off-guard. You may test it out for your self on Peacock because the case continues to develop forward of Sean Combs’ scheduled Could 5, 2025, courtroom date.