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The fall of a hip-hop mogul revealed in shocking detail... Join us as we explore the explosive allegations from Netflix's "Sean Combs: The Reckoning"! From final days before arrest to disturbing claims about Tupac's murder, this docuseries pulls back the curtain on Diddy's empire. What revelation surprised you most? Let us know in the comments!
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00:00No matter what nobody said, let's just, here and there, y'all are not working together the right way. We're losing.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the most shocking moments and revelations from the Netflix docu-series, Sean Combs' The Reckoning.
00:12Warning, some of the information contains distressing details.
00:16I'm still in this movie, and I just plan on, I just know to end it, and that it's gonna end happily ever after.
00:24Final Days of Freedom filmed.
00:25You know, it's really gonna be hard for me to take more hits than I take it, God forbid, to get in front of a jury and have a chance.
00:33The documentary wastes no time painting a portrait of a mogul in freefall.
00:38And it's all thanks to footage captured by a videographer Combs himself hired to document his days in New York prior to his arrest.
00:45The footage shows Diddy pacing through hotel rooms and anxiously scanning rooftops where law enforcement is perched across the street.
00:52Just get little cutaways of them, like, looking from the, you know what I'm saying?
00:55We also see him make an emergency phone call with his team asking for someone seasoned in, quote,
01:00the dirtiest of dirty business to help navigate his crisis.
01:04We have to find somebody that'll work with us, whether they're from this country or from another country.
01:09It could be somebody that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirtiest, dirty business of media and propaganda.
01:17Diddy is also shown moving through the streets among everyday people, even making a return to Harlem.
01:22However, when he gets back into his vehicle, Diddy immediately demands hand sanitizer,
01:27joking that he needed to cleanse himself from the very people he had just embraced.
01:31Yeah, I gotta take a bag.
01:34Like, the amount of people that actually I'm coming in contact with, like, that's the, that's what I have to do.
01:43You know what I'm saying?
01:44It's like 150 hugs, you feel me?
01:49We gotta be realistic about what's going on out here.
01:51It's time and claim.
01:52Fame through tragedy.
01:54That's really how I started to become famous.
01:57It's through a tragedy.
01:59Long before he became a household name, Sean Combs was thrust into the spotlight through tragedy.
02:04And I thought, you know, over the holidays, I just wanted to throw a celebrity basketball game in Harlem.
02:09The documentary revisits raw, unsettling footage from the disastrous 1991 charity basketball game at City College,
02:16an event featuring several hip-hop and R&B artists of the time that was heavily hyped and partially promoted by Combs.
02:22Every rapper in New York, right?
02:25Your MTV raps came.
02:26I'm at City College in the heart of New York City for the Puff Daddy Heavy, the first all-time celebrity all-star classic.
02:33The gym, built for 2,730 people, was overwhelmed by nearly 5,000 fans, triggering a deadly stampede.
02:42The reckoning highlights how this catastrophe altered the course of Combs' career.
02:46Suddenly, everyone knew his name.
02:48And rather than retreat, he leaned into the attention, launching what would become Bad Boy Entertainment.
02:54However, we learn he allegedly placed the company under others' names to shield himself from potential payouts tied to the tragedy.
03:02He did not put the company in his name to protect him from paying families at CCNY.
03:09Role in Tupac's murder?
03:10Puff was very threatened by Pop.
03:13He was very threatened.
03:14Hip-hop's infamous West Coast-East Coast feud comes under the microscope when the series examines the murders of Tupac Shakur and the notorious B.I.G.,
03:22a rivalry that spiraled from cultural clashes into deadly gangland territory.
03:27Shook said, what do you mean it's gonna be alright?
03:30He said, tell your mama it's gonna be alright.
03:33Tell your kids it's gonna be alright.
03:34The doc frames the clash as partly manufactured, with Combs and Bad Boy records allegedly stoking tensions between gangs,
03:41the Crips aligned with Bad Boy, and the Bloods with Death Row and Shook Knight.
03:45We're gonna protect our friends.
03:47So they knew.
03:50And they were our associates.
03:52You got beef with them, you got beef with me.
03:55Period.
03:57A number of reports have come out that Bad Boy Entertainment had actually hired Crips for security work out on the West Coast.
04:02Is that true?
04:02Um, we've never hired Crips.
04:07In the series, drug boss Dwayne Keefy D. Davis recounts how he and his nephew allegedly killed Shakur,
04:13stating Combs openly promised a $1 million payment for the heads of Tupac and Knight.
04:18He said he'd kill us anything for no dudes they have, you know?
04:22Tupac answered me.
04:23Yeah.
04:24He said it in front of all those people, I can't believe.
04:27Allegedly, half was given to an intermediary named Zip to deliver,
04:31but Keefy D. never received any of it.
04:33And DMACC says there had been a payment from Combs to Keefy D.
04:40But it had gone through Zip, and then that money was never forwarded.
04:45Relationship with Biggie.
04:46Because he knows, if you make inroads on Biggie's murder,
04:50you're gonna make inroads on Tupac's murder.
04:52And that potentially can lead right back to him.
04:55The Reckoning also gives a clear look at the complex relationship Sean Combs had with the notorious B.I.G.
05:01Signed while working at Uptown Records, Combs kept his star client after he was fired,
05:06later convincing Clive Davis to buy into his vision and launch Biggie into superstardom.
05:10But behind the mentorship was alleged control.
05:14It's stated that Combs was jealous of the friendship between Biggie and Tupac,
05:17and wanted complete dominance over Biggie's career.
05:20There's a yearning for him to have that complete, total control.
05:25You're my artist, you're my best friend.
05:28You're writing this song for like 30 more f***ing days.
05:32I pay you, you work for me.
05:34Not long after Tupac's death, Biggie was sent to, quote,
05:37enemy turf, Los Angeles, to promote his upcoming album.
05:41And when Combs allegedly insisted on throwing a party there,
05:44it forced Biggie to cancel European media obligations.
05:47He's like, yo, Puff is bugging.
05:50He just called me and told me, I want you to stay here in L.A.
05:53I don't want to stay.
05:54I want to go.
05:57But Sean was adamant.
06:00Cancel the flight.
06:02Biggie's not going to the U.K.
06:04What do you mean he's not going to?
06:05Click, he hangs up.
06:06The doc argues this decision, quote,
06:08ushered Biggie to his death.
06:10It was also revealed that Diddy made Biggie's funeral a, quote,
06:13recuperable charge, ensuring he didn't have to pay for it.
06:17He starts to see the price.
06:20He says, we're going to do the biggest funeral,
06:22but Biggie's going to have to pay for this funeral.
06:26He was going to make the funeral be a recuperable charge.
06:30Capricorn Clark was not believed by jurors.
06:33And he was like, tell her I have you and I'm not going to let you go.
06:36Those who followed Combs' federal trial will remember former staffer Capricorn Clark
06:40for her emotional headline-grabbing testimony.
06:43Clark alleges that after Diddy learned Cassie Ventura was dating Kid Cuddy,
06:47he kidnapped her.
06:48Something she says she didn't report because she, quote,
06:51wanted to protect the culture.
06:52His life would have been over then.
06:54He would have gone to jail for kidnapping in Los Angeles.
06:58But I protected you because I had more love for the culture
07:01than to embarrass him and take it all away from him like that.
07:04She also described her very first day working for Diddy
07:07and how he allegedly took her to Central Park
07:09and threatened to kill her over her ties to Suge Knight.
07:12Yet the documentary reveals that jurors struggle to believe her story.
07:16One juror interviewed in the series said Clark's testimony
07:18often came across as confusing and contradictory,
07:21leading her to mirror the same baffled facial expressions
07:24Diddy was also making in court.
07:26And sometimes look over to us like,
07:28can you believe they said that?
07:30In his facial expressions.
07:32What the fuck did you just got?
07:33It was funny to see
07:37because I had the same facial expressions that he did at times.
07:41Jurors didn't buy the racketeering and trafficking narrative.
07:43So now we are confused.
07:45What's going on here?
07:47He's beating, next minute they are going on dinners and trips.
07:51Speaking of the jury,
07:53the docuseries also looked at how some members grappled
07:55with Cassie Ventura's testimony,
07:57in which she detailed years of alleged coercion,
08:00substance-fueled freak-offs,
08:01and supposed blackmail videos.
08:03However, several jurors say they struggled to convict Diddy
08:06on the trafficking and racketeering charges,
08:08arguing the statutes didn't cleanly match
08:10what they'd heard in court.
08:12As for the now infamous 2016 Intercontinental Hotel footage,
08:16one noted,
08:17Domestic violence wasn't one of the charges.
08:18Framing Cassie's ordeal as morally horrifying,
08:21but legally complicated.
08:23The other juror added that Ventura's desire to remain with Combs
08:26made the relationship appear very complicated.
08:28You didn't see any force fraud or coercion between Cassie and Sean?
08:33That was a very, very interesting relationship.
08:38It's two people in love, you know,
08:41they are like overly loved.
08:43You cannot explain.
08:45She wanted to be with him.
08:47He took her for granted.
08:49He never thought that she'd leave her.
08:51So it's like both hands clapping together.
08:54You cannot clap with one hand.
08:56The both hands like this,
08:58then you get the noise.
08:59Diddy planned to move $200 million before his arrest.
09:03I'm about to deposit $200 million right now.
09:06I feel good.
09:07Another eyebrow-raising revelation in Sean Combs' The Reckoning
09:10comes from video footage of a phone call Diddy made
09:13just days before his September 2024 arrest in Manhattan.
09:16What's up, baby?
09:18Talk to daddy.
09:20Yeah.
09:23In the footage,
09:24Combs is seen and heard telling Dana Tron,
09:27the mother of his young daughter Love,
09:28that he was, quote,
09:29about to deposit $200 million right now.
09:32What y'all wanna do?
09:33Wanna be ballers?
09:35Shot callers, brawlers?
09:36He was also shown bragging that the bank
09:38was staying open late just for him.
09:41You wanna scream in the crowd, don't you?
09:43The filmmakers present this moment
09:44as a telling snapshot of Combs' mindset at the time.
09:47A man seemingly bracing for impact,
09:49shifting half his reported $400 million fortune
09:53as federal scrutiny immensely tightened around him.
09:56I miss you too.
09:58Freak-Offs explored.
09:59I remember putting it on like a normal person.
10:02She took the bottle and said,
10:03no, that's not enough.
10:05It wouldn't be a complete Diddy documentary
10:07without a dive into the mogul's so-called freak-offs,
10:10the alleged erotic sessions Combs arranged
10:12between female partners and hired male performers.
10:16And the Reckoning spotlights one such participant,
10:18Clayton Howard.
10:19She tells me that I'm there to please her for her husband.
10:22You know, they're married.
10:23They like to spice things up.
10:24The sex worker admits to being flown in
10:26throughout an eight-year period
10:27to engage in meticulously controlled encounters
10:29with Diddy and his ex-partner Cassie Ventura.
10:32The process was always heavily regulated by him.
10:35He claims these entanglements were orchestrated,
10:37monitored, and quote,
10:39heavily regulated by Combs,
10:40down to the use of baby oil
10:42and the collection of his bodily fluids.
10:44He's like, what's wrong with that?
10:45I was like, you know, to each his own.
10:47Howard even recounts being brought in annually
10:49for sessions that coincided with the anniversary
10:51of the notorious B.I.G.'s murder.
10:54I don't know if that was his release
10:55for that day or whatever,
10:56New York, play that biggie all day!
10:59But they always called me on March 9th.
11:01Aubrey O'Day reads a harrowing affidavit.
11:03I had a lawyer reach out to me
11:06in regards to an affidavit
11:11that they had received
11:12from a person that was allegedly a victim
11:16and that wanted me to be aware
11:19of something that she had seen.
11:20The Netflix docu-series features
11:22an unsettling moment in its fourth episode
11:24when former Danity Cain singer Aubrey O'Day
11:26reads aloud an affidavit.
11:28The document describes a 2005 incident
11:30in which a female witness
11:32alleges that she accidentally walked into a room
11:34and saw a partially unclothed O'Day
11:36being indecently assaulted by Diddy and another man.
11:39Aubrey looked out of it and was just lying there.
11:42O'Day tells filmmakers she has no memory
11:44of the alleged assault
11:45and admits she, quote,
11:47doesn't want to know whether it happened.
11:48Elsewhere in the series,
11:50Aubrey recounts being pushed out of Danity Cain
11:52in 2008 after refusing what she describes
11:54as Combs' sexual advances,
11:56alleging that her rejection of explicit emails
11:59and pressure to, quote,
12:00participate ultimately led to her removal
12:02from the group.
12:03I absolutely felt that I was fired
12:05for not participating sexually.
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12:25Bad Boy Entertainment co-founder tells his story.
12:27Bad Boy co-founder Kirk Burroughs
12:35delivers one of the most sobering accounts
12:37throughout the Netflix documentary series.
12:39For one, he alleges that Combs
12:41strong-armed him out of his 25% stake
12:43by threatening him with a baseball bat,
12:45though he still stayed on as an employee.
12:47My door opens up.
12:50Sean walks in.
12:52He had a baseball bat.
12:54Had a big attaché case suitcase
12:56with the snaps on it.
12:58The stocks were there.
12:59He says the real breaking point
13:01came when Diddy demanded
13:02that Biggie's newly renegotiated contract
13:04be secretly altered after his death
13:06to favor Bad Boy
13:07by swapping in new pages
13:09without Biggie's family's knowledge.
13:11Sean wanted me to change the agreement
13:14to more favorable terms for Bad Boy.
13:17And his family and mother would not know.
13:20And since he had signed the agreement,
13:22he wanted those changes
13:24to come from out of the center of the agreement
13:27and have those pages replaced with the other terms.
13:30When Burroughs refused,
13:31he says he was fired 90 days later.
13:34Burroughs describes losing his career,
13:36being blacklisted,
13:37and even falling into homelessness.
13:39Towards the close of the dock,
13:41Kirk shares a final harrowing accusation
13:43that he too was sexually assaulted by Combs.
13:46Not only was he abusive to me
13:49from an employer-employee standpoint,
13:53he was also abusive to me in other ways.
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