“The Fall of P. Diddy”, a documentary series on the famous American rapper who is to be tried in the spring in a vast sex trafficking case, will be broadcast from January 27 in the United States on the Max platform, the latter announced Friday.
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This series wants to explore “in depth the damning allegations surrounding the career” of the imprisoned megastar who proclaims his innocence, after an “investigation spanning several decades” based on “unpublished testimonies and never before revealed archive images”.
The producers of “The Fall of P. Diddy” say they rely on “30 interviews with a wide range of testimonies”, ranging “from those who accuse him of abuse to former friends and colleagues, including employees who worked at his home.
Influential figure in hip-hop and the music industry, real name Sean Combs, 55 years old, called P. Diddy, but also Diddy or Puff Daddy, must be judged from May 5 in New York during a trial for trafficking for sexual exploitation, extortion and transportation of people for prostitution. So many charges to which he pleaded not guilty, saying he was innocent. He faces life imprisonment. A new procedural hearing has been set for March 17.
Also targeted by civil complaints from more than 120 alleged victims, the rapper is accused by the courts of having put his “empire” at the service of a violent sex trafficking system.
A bling-bling artist, known for throwing large parties in the 90s and 2000s, he is today described by his alleged victims as a sexually violent predator who used alcohol and drugs to obtain their submission.
With his record label Bad Boy Records, founded in 1993, Sean Combs launched the careers of Notorious BIG, a rap icon murdered in 1997, and singer Mary J. Blige.
In December, the case rebounded when Jay-Z, another hip-hop star and producer who now heads an entertainment empire, was accused in a civil complaint of raping a teenage girl 13 years with P. Diddy in 2000.
Jay-Z denied the accusations and counterattacked by assuring that the victim’s lawyer had sought to extort funds from him before filing a complaint.
