How did 50 Cent & Netflix‘s Sean Combs: The Reckoning really obtain the behind the scenes footage of Diddy scheming with his lawyers on the eve of his Sept 2024 arrest? A partial explanation as delivered tonight
Combs’ team now say they know how up-close and personal footage of the now incarcerated and much-accused Grammy winner ended up in the chart topping docuseries, though they’re not naming names — yet.
“For over two years we have been working on a project profiling Sean “Diddy” Combs,” said self-described “Sean Combs’ documentarian” Michael Oberlies tonight. “The footage in question was not released by me or anyone authorized to handle Sean Combs’ materials; it was by a third party who covered for me for three days while I was out of state,” Oberlies, who also goes by Obes went on to explain of the scenes of Diddy strategizing and scheming with his legal team in the days leading up to his September 2024 arrest on sex trafficking, racketeering, and transporting individuals for prostitution.
Slightly contradicting previous statements from Combs’ reps, Oberlies adds: “This incident had nothing to do with any fee dispute or contract issue. The actions of the parties involved reflect the lack of integrity every storyteller should uphold. Taking footage intended for our project to advance a narrative that was not our own is both unethical and unacceptable.”
Facing repeated accusations that the footage was “stolen” and that a lawsuit is looming, Netflix have yet to directly comment on the mystery of the damning footage that goes a lot further of proving the harshest charges against Diddy than the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York’s far from successful case ever did this past summer. What the streamer has put out there is a statement from Sean Combs: The Reckoning director Alexandria Stapleton.
.“It came to us, we obtained the footage legally and have the necessary rights,” Stapleton said of the September 10 2024 footage, which Combs apparently wanted for his own documentary project. The footage, which shows a clearly agitated Diddy lashing out about “losing” to his lawyer, also instructing his legal team “to find someone that’ll work with us that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirty business” to push back against the various claims against him.
Contacted by Deadline Wednesday, Netflix once again had no comment and directed us to Stapleton’s remarks.
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