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50 Cent executive produces Netflix docuseries on Sean “Diddy” Combs
As an executive producer, rapper 50 Cent is on board with Netflix’s brand new four-part docuseries, Sean Combs: The Reckoning. The show follows the rise and career of Sean “Diddy” Combs and, in addition, investigates the sexual abuse allegations as well as the lawsuit by the R&B singer and Combs’s ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, filed in November 2023.
Once 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) heard about the project, he met with director Alexandria Stapleton and they decided to make a docuseries out of it.
Director Alexandria Stapleton on the difficulty of making the film “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” and the eventual conviction of Combs
Director Alexandria Stapleton, in an interview with Netflix Tudum, expressed the difficulty and the importance of making the movie, as it focused on the cultural significance of the lawsuit of Casandra Ventura during the #MeToo movement.
“The moment Cassie filed her lawsuit, I thought there were a million ways this story could unfold,” Stapleton recalled. “It made me question her bravery going up against a mogul like Sean Combs. From a filmmaker’s perspective, I immediately saw it was a cultural moment that tested whether we have evolved and are now able to handle such allegations in a just manner.”
In October 2025, Sean Combs was convicted of forcibly transporting women for drug and sex orgies and received a four-year prison sentence. The jury returned a verdict of two counts of which one was related to Casandra Ventura and the other to a new victim, “Jane.”
When Can We See Sean Combs: The Reckoning?
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is a Netflix streaming option that viewers can watch right away. The release date for the entire season, which includes the four episodes of the docuseries, was December 2.
What is Sean Combs: The Reckoning about?
The four-part docuseries, according to Netflix’s official logline, depicts intimate footage that was filmed with the knowledge of Sean Combs during the six days preceding his arrest and indictment, as well as while he was under a federal investigation.
The series also has characters’ interviews such as Aubrey O’Day from Danity Kane and jurors from Combs’s trial.
Director Alexandria Stapleton, talking about the documentary’s wider theme, said: “The focus of the documentary is not only on Sean Combs or Cassie or the victims or the trial. In fact, this narrative is a mirror reflecting us as the audience and what we say when we put celebrities on such a high pedestal. I wish it were some kind of a wake-up call about the hazard of idolizing people and realizing that they are all human.”
The feud between 50 Cent and Sean “Diddy” Combs
It is 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) the rapper, against Sean “Diddy” Combs as the two have been at each other’s throats for almost 20 years. The 20-year feud started around 2006 when 50 Cent dropped the diss track “The Bomb,” in which he accused Diddy of being involved in the 1997 murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G. Besides that, he has also blamed Diddy for the death of Tupac Shakur in 1996, but Diddy has always denied those claims.
The fight got more and more intense as the years went by, and they even started a rivalry between their respective vodka brands.
In an interview with People in October 2024, 50 Cent explained that his confronting accusations are merely his viewpoint after years of keeping out the drama, “It’s just my perspective because I stayed away from that stuff the entire time, because this is not my style,” he said.
50 Cent’s role and view to the docuseries “Sean Combs: The Reckoning”
50 Cent is one of the executive producers of Sean Combs: The Reckoning and sees the docuseries as a manifestation of his dedication to “real storytelling”.
“I have been very much involved in real storytelling for the past several years through G-Unit Film and Television,” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson confided to Netflix’s Tudum. “I thank the whole lot of them who came forward, entrusted us with their stories. It is also my pleasure to have Alexandria Stapleton as a director to bring this key issue to the screen.”
50 Cent Reveals His Reason for Joining Sean Combs: The Reckoning
On the television program Good Morning America, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson revealed that he joined the docuseries in order to make a one-time public appearance to totally oppose Sean Combs’s misconduct.
“If I didn’t utter a word, it would be that you necessarily consider the hip-hop industry to be okay with his kind of behavior,” he said. “Nobody else is speaking out. So this would be a case of the so-called mind your business, or let me not say nothing, although we all know the truth, or those things would dominate the entire culture and it would be like they’re for that behavior just because of the silence.”
Even though he 50 cent was criticized, he still thinks that Combs would be glad to see the film. “He will tell me that this is the best documentary he’s seen in a long time,” Jackson said. “And probably, he may not feel that way about every single piece, but he knows the truth and I think he’ll see it there.”
Sean Combs casts a negative light on The Reckoning docuseries and Netflix
Sean Combs really didn’t hold back in his criticism of the docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning that is just around the corner. In a statement, the Bad Boy Records founder even went to the extent of blaming Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos for a “personal breach of trust” and alleged that the footage used in the docuseries teaser that aired on Good Morning America was from a stolen video.
Combs referred to the series as a “shameful hit piece,” charging Netflix with creating a sensationalized version of his life “without regard for truth” just to cash in on the buzz. Besides that, he also criticized Netflix for allowing 50 Cent to have the final say in the creative aspect of the project. In his opinion, Jackson is a “longtime adversary with a personal vendetta” who has continually libeled him, hence the statement: “He has been my biggest enemy for years and now he wants to destroy my reputation.”
