From the very opening moments of the new Netflix documentary, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, we can tell that 50 Cent’s four-part series (directed by Alex Stapleton) is going to go much deeper than any other film on the subject. It digs into decades of allegations tied to Diddy’s music, fashion and acting career, then jumps straight into the events leading up to his September 2024 arrest. You even get clips of Combs filming himself during those final days. It even shows two jurors breaking down the mixed verdict from his federal trial. It’s a lot to take in. Here we’ve put together a list of the 10 biggest reveals in 50 Cent’s Diddy The Reckoning Netflix documentary.
Kirk Burrowes Claims He Witnessed Diddy Slap His Own Mother in Shocking New Account
Diddy was only twenty-two during the 1991 City College Stampede, a charity basketball event with Heavy D that ended in nine deaths and a lot of trauma he carried into his early career. Kirk Burrowes claimed he once watched Janice Combs confront her son about dropping Howard University for music. “I saw him put his hands on her, call her a b—ch, and slap her. He’s not looking back,” Burrowes says in Sean Combs: The Reckoning. The filmmakers reached out to Combs’ reps, though no one replied.
The Documentary Hints at Diddy’s Possible Link to the Deaths of 2Pac and Biggie
You can’t help raising an eyebrow at how wild the claims get. The filmmakers landed never-before-aired footage from March 9, 1997. You watch Biggie leave that Los Angeles party in a blue truck, only for gunfire to interrupt the night. Sirens. People yelling. A rush to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center that arrives too late.
One witness flat-out says that Diddy knows more than he’s saying. Another suggests he’s tied to both murders, which is a heavy accusation to drop on camera. You decide what to do with that, but the doc doesn’t hold back.
Diddy Accused of Plotting to Kill Kid Cudi
Capricorn Clark, who started working for Diddy in 2004 and eventually climbed into an executive role at Combs’ companies, described a morning she’ll never forget. “About a week after we went hiking, about 6:30 in the morning, I hear a banging at my door,” she said. “It’s Puff. His pants are split open, like a maniac, froth on the side of his mouth. He has a gun, and he’s mad as hell. He’s like, ‘Yeah, f—k all this. Go get dressed. We’re going to go kill him.” She said he dragged her along while hunting for Kid Cudi, who wasn’t home that day. Cassie, then 23, wasn’t spared either. Clark said Diddy “kicked the s—t” out of her later.
Aubrey O’Day Says Diddy Cut Her From Danity Kane After She Rejected Him
In Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Aubrey O’Day says Diddy pushed her as “the looker,” then hit her with explicit emails she read word for word. She was dropped in October 2008. The docuseries adds a 2005 affidavit describing an assault she doesn’t remember, leaving her asking what actually happened and why she never knew.
Two Jurors Reveal Why Diddy Was Acquitted
Two jurors tried to unpack why Sean “Diddy” Combs walked free on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, even though the October sentencing still handed him 50 months for violating the Mann Act. Juror 160 didn’t hold back. “[It’s] unforgivable, honestly. You can’t beat that small girl like that…” she said, pointing to the Cassie footage. Juror 75, older and totally unaware of Diddy’s career peak in the mid-2000s, struggled with the relationship itself. “They are overly loved… you cannot clap with one hand,” he said, baffled that the pair kept reconnecting through texts, trips and dinners.
How Diddy Dealt With The Accusations & Charges Prior To Being Arrested
Sean Combs: The Reckoning reveals that Diddy spent early September 2024 pretending everything was normal, even while Dawn Richard hit him with a $30 million lawsuit that accused him of assault, underpaying her and pushing her to the point of starvation. She also said she’d seen him hit Cassie. Meanwhile, he kept filming a behind-the-scenes project like nothing was happening. Then the cameras caught him snapping. “Dawn Richard just dropped a lawsuit on me. For $30 million,” he said. “They’re crashing out… now all of a sudden I’m this person, I’m this monster. F—k that, man. Gloves coming off.”
A Sex Worker Reveals Details On The Wild Freak-Offs
Clayton Howard says his first Manhattan hotel meetup with Diddy and Cassie felt unreal. He walked out six grand richer and kept getting flown in every six weeks. “As the relationship progressed, Puff started to record us,” he said. He also claimed Diddy abused Cassie and always called him on March 9.
Mark Curry Reveals How Big Jake’s Shooting Helped Ignite the East Coast–West Coast Feud
Mark Curry revisited the 1995 shooting of Suge Knight’s bodyguard Big Jake Robles, saying it pushed the East Coast–West Coast feud into high gear. He recalled, “Suge and Jake was being escorted out…” and described the gunman firing five shots. Big Jake died days later, fueling rising hostility that year.
Joi Dickerson-Neal Comes Forward With Harrowing Account of Sexual Assault
Joi Dickerson-Neal, now 46, says her life swerved in 1993 after shooting a Finesse and Synquis video with Sean Combs. She describes an assault she didn’t consent to, adding that he filmed it and played the tape at parties. “My mother wrote his mother because I couldn’t sleep,” she said while reflecting on the fallout. Bad Boy co-founder Kirk Burrowes linked Combs’ behavior to the swagger of Alpo Martinez, the ‘80s New York figure whose influence reached far beyond Harlem. Dickerson-Neal later confronted Combs in a chance run-in at a Manhattan lounge in 2002, recalling him on his knees denying everything. She walked away and hasn’t spoken to him again.
According To Some, Diddy Is A Terrible Musician
Probably one of the biggest surprises in Sean Combs: The Reckoning is that, according to some of the artists and producers who worked with Sean Combs, he isn’t a very good musician, producer or artist. In fact, a few of them said they’d spend hours and hours in studio trying to get a song completed after he fumbled lyrics or failed to deliver. According to those same sources, he worked with talented producers to create the chart toppers that fans all loved.
