Diddy has beef with Netflix and 50 Cent over Sean Combs: The Reckoning could add another court date to the All About the Benjamins performer’s already pretty full calendar via Deadline.
Amid s*xual assault civil complaints, the incarcerated Diddy is battling, plus a December 23 filed criminal case appeal, and a new prison release date, the Bad Boy Records founder may soon be coming through on his threats and taking on the Ted Sarandos-run streamer and longtime rival rapper too.
“Sean Combs and his team are still pondering their legal options over the Netflix docuseries and the stolen footage,” a spokesperson for the Bad Boy Records founder told Deadline today about the chart topping The Reckoning and series’ revealing BTS scenes of a scheming Diddy in the days leading up to his September 2024 arrest.
Currently incarcerated at the low-security Fort Dix in New Jersey, Combs escaped major s*x trafficking and RICO charges on July 2nd. However, a jury convicted him on two lesser counts of transportation for prostitution. He faces numerous civil suits nationwide and a new s*xual battery investigation launched last month by the LA County Sheriff’s department.
In early October, Combs was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Considering time served, the Federal Bureau of Prisons initially planned to release him on May 8, 2028, barring any incidents or citations. After being transferred to the more comfortable Garden State facility, his release date was moved to June 4th, 2028.
Now, unless his fast-tracked appeal proves a winner, Diddy is getting out on May 25th, 2028, according to the latest info from the FBoP.
No reason was given for this latest change, and why just over a week was shaved off Combs’ time in the joint. Fact is, like so many things in life, it sometimes takes authorities a bit of time to get the math correct in incarceration matters for both high-profile convicts and regular ole bad guys.
Even before the four-part Alexandria Stapleton-directed Reckoning was launched on the global streamer on December 2nd, lawyers for Diddy tried to have it shut down. Calling Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson EP’d The Reckoning a “shameful hit piece,” that December 1st cease and desist letter proclaimed the footage of Combs in a NYC hotel rooming ranting at his defense lawyers was “stolen” and illegally obtained.
Accusing co-CEO Sarandos of “corporate retribution” from allegedly being rebuffed by Combs on a 2023 docu project, the letter went on to say: “As you are undoubtedly aware, Mr. Combs has not hesitated to take legal action against media entities and others who violate his rights, and he will not hesitate to do so against Netflix.”
