Diddy’s Legal Troubles Detailed in Multiple Documentaries: Biggest Revelations

Since Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in September 2024, multiple documentaries — two in total as of January 2025 — have detailed the allegations against the rapper.

The first, Peacock’s Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, started streaming on January 14. The 90-minute film included interviews with the mogul’s childhood friends and former employees as well as Sara Rivers, who appeared on his MTV series Making the Band.

“That’s my little bro,” Tim Patterson, who grew up with Diddy in New York, said in the movie. “I know Sean, not Diddy, not Daddy Love. I don’t know those people, I don’t know them, I swear I don’t know them, I never met those people.”

Weeks later, Investigation Discovery released The Fall of Diddy, a five-part docuseries produced in collaboration with Rolling Stone. In one episode, Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Kat Pasion alleged that she had a nonconsensual encounter with him during their relationship, circa 2021.

“His whole tone, everything changed,” she claimed. “I just don’t wanna go into detail of it. … I didn’t even recognize him. And I knew I was never gonna see him and I never wanted to remember or repeat what happened.”

In response to Pasion’s allegation and others in both documentaries, a rep for Diddy told Us Weekly: “As we’ve said before, Mr. Combs cannot respond to every new publicity stunt, even in response to claims that are facially ridiculous. Mr. Combs has full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that the accusations against Mr. Combs are pure fiction.”

Diddy is currently in jail awaiting trial after his September 2024 arrest on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has denied all the allegations against him and pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Keep scrolling for a breakdown of the biggest revelations from the documentaries about Diddy:

Diddy’s Childhood

Both docs included interviews with people who knew Diddy during his youth in Mount Vernon, New York. According to Patterson, Diddy may have inherited his interest in wild parties from his mother, Janice Combs.

“Sean’s house, our house, there was always things going on. On the weekend, you partied in the house, and we did that a lot,” Patterson claimed in Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy. “He was around all types of alcohol, he was around reefer smoke, he was around drug addicts, around lesbians, around homosexuals, he was around pimps and pushers, that was just who was in our house. … At night, it wouldn’t be a thing to mistakenly walk into one of the bedrooms and you got a couple in there butt naked. That’s what we were privy to. This is what we were fed. Was it desensitizing us? I’m sure it was. Were we aware of it? No. That was just Saturday night.”

Patterson also alleged that Janice was hard on Diddy as a kid. “I’m sure everything from Janice’s way of raising him was coming from love,” he said in The Fall of Diddy. “But there were times that I would see Janice’s personality go from hot to cold, and he had to be on the receiving end of a hot night or a cold night. Janice didn’t take no s—, none at all. She ruled with an iron fist. … And she didn’t let him get away with nothing. Nothing. And that’s how it was in Sean’s house. If he did something wrong, he’d get his ass beat. Simple as that.”

His Time at Howard

An anonymous woman who claimed to have attended Howard University with Diddy in the late 1980s alleged that she once saw him physically abuse a girlfriend on campus. At the time, the woman was looking out the window of her dorm room.

“We heard someone yelling and screaming so we pushed up the window just enough to get a little idea of what was going on,” the woman alleged in The Fall of Diddy. “We saw that it was Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs, a fellow student, and he was screaming, ‘Get your ass downstairs, come downstairs right now.’ And he had taken his belt off and he was whipping the wall, mad, angry.”

When the subject of Diddy’s alleged tirade met him outside, the interviewee claimed she saw him hit the woman. “He started beating on her, whipping her with that belt, and she’s taking it,” she claimed. “So we’re yelling, ‘Get off of her, stop hitting on her, leave her alone.’ He’s yelling back, ‘Mind your business, mind your f—ing business.’ But we’re yelling back, ‘Get off of her, leave her the f— alone.’ He pushes her back into the doorway of the dorm. We don’t know what’s going on in that space, we can’t see.”

‘Vibe’ Cover Story

In The Fall of Diddy, former Vibe editor Danyel Smith alleged that Diddy threatened her after she refused to let him preview a 1997 magazine cover he’d done for the outlet. “I told him again we don’t show the covers, we don’t share the story,” she explained. “I told him that I wouldn’t be making an exception. And he said that he would see me dead in a trunk if I did not show it to him. I said to him, ‘You need to take that back.’”

Smith went on to claim that “two tough guys” came to the Vibe office looking for her at one point. “In order for my safety and in order for the magazine pages to remain intact, I was shuttled from office to office until the coast was clear and waited outside standing on the corner with the proofs, the pages of the magazine, that were being prepared to go to print,” she said. “And then my managing editor came down and got the pages from me and put me in a cab to Brooklyn. But the thing is, sitting right here right now, I have no memory of any of that happening. When our research chief was telling me this story, I was just like, ‘I don’t remember.’ … And she said, ‘Of course you don’t — you blacked it out, you were terrified.’”

Driving for Diddy

Wardel Fenderson, who previously worked as a driver for Diddy, claimed that he saw the rapper holding a gun after the 1999 nightclub shooting in NYC that resulted in the conviction of Moses “Shyne” Barrow.

“Mr. Combs got in the vehicle, and I happened, at one point, to glance over my shoulder, and I noticed him holding a black handgun,” Fenderson alleged in The Fall of Diddy. “No words were exchanged, we made eye contact, he said nothing, I said nothing. And I proceeded en route to Club New York.”

Fenderson claimed that Diddy later threw the gun out the window and offered him $50,000 to take the one that his bodyguard Anthony “Wolf” Jones was holding. He then testified in the trial. “Yes, I was nervous about cooperating but I had to,” Fenderson said. “You have to stand up for what’s right in this world. (Diddy and Jones were both acquitted on charges of bribery and illegal possession of handguns.)

New ‘Making the Band’ Allegations

In Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, Rivers — who was part of Da Band on Making the Band 2 from 2002 to 2004 — said she didn’t want to be around the mogul unless cameras were present.

“He touched me [in] a place that he shouldn’t have. That was inappropriate,” Rivers alleged. “I felt intimidated. I felt like, ‘Oh, my God, what the heck happened just now?’”

When asked for comment on Rivers’ claims, Diddy’s team issued the following statement: “This documentary recycles and perpetuates the same lies and conspiracy theories that have been slung against Mr. Combs for months. It is disappointing to see NBC and Peacock rolling in the same mud as unethical tabloid reporters. By providing a platform for proven liars and opportunists to make false criminal accusations, the documentary is irresponsible journalism of the worst kind.”

D. Woods, meanwhile, shared her story in The Fall of Diddy, claiming that her former boss said “the most degrading things” to her during her time in Danity Kane. She also claimed her former bandmate Aubrey O’Day told her Diddy sent her “very inappropriate pictures.”

“I saw a lot of things that he would email her, very sexual in nature, very just overtly pornographic things that he wanted to do to her,” Woods alleged. “She was just kind of like, ‘What do I do?’ I remember telling her, ‘Girl, put that in a folder, send it to your mama, save that.’”

When asked about Woods’ allegations, Diddy’s team issued the following statement to Us: “These documentaries are rushing to cash in on the media circus surrounding Mr. Combs. The producers failed to provide sufficient time or details for his representatives to address unsubstantiated claims, many from unidentified participants whose allegations lack context. By withholding this information, they made it impossible for Mr. Combs to present facts to counter these fabricated accusations.”

His Relationship With Kim Porter

Al B. Sure, who was in a relationship with Kim Porter before she met Diddy, spoke out about the producer in Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, alleging that the rapper never adopted his and Porter’s son, Quincy. Diddy has long maintained that he adopted Quincy, now 33, as a toddler after he began dating Porter, who died in 2018 at age 47.

“There’s no adoption. None,” Sure alleged in the film. “And if you haven’t noticed, [Quincy’s] name is still Brown. People thought I was absent and things of that nature.”

Sure went on to repeat his belief that Porter did not die of natural causes. As the documentary noted, medical professionals have found no evidence that Porter died of unnatural causes. Her children, meanwhile, said in 2024 that they accept the official cause of her death.

“Our lives were shattered when we lost our mother. She was our world, and nothing has been the same since she passed,” Quincy, Christian, Jessie and D’lila said in a joint statement in September 2024. “While it has been incredibly difficult to reconcile how she could be taken from us too soon, the cause of her death has long been established. There was no foul play. Grief is a lifelong process, and we ask that everyone respect our request for peace as we continue to cope with her loss every day.”

In The Fall of Diddy, the Vibe editor, Smith, claimed that she once saw Diddy verbally abuse Porter during a night out with friends. “I’ve seen him act around Kim in ways that were just awful and very mean,” Smith alleged. “It was not a cool situation at all. He just started hollering at her that she should be at home, not out. And then he grabbed her handbag and literally turned it upside down he just emptied it out in front of everybody. I was so in shock.”

Wild King Nights

Phil Pines, a former executive assistant for Diddy, detailed allegations about so-called “wild king nights” that happened while he worked for him between 2019 and 2021. Pines claimed that he had to procure supplies for these parties as part of his job.

“We usually had a laundry list of items that included lights, alcohol, marijuana, ketamine, molly,” Pines alleged in The Fall of Diddy. “Baby oil and Astroglide were very important, candles, incense, Apple TVs, electronics, computers, iPads. Obviously, there [were] male libido supplements, stuff like that. Those requests started to become more frequent, they started to occur on a daily basis. There was a requirement we had to keep those things stocked.”

In Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, an anonymous former employee claimed that his boss preferred red lighting for parties. “Any time where the studio or any rooms is [lit] red, it’s red because he feels like [that’s] the frequency for f—ing and making love and sex,” the former employee alleged.

Working for Diddy

Pines claimed that he had to provide “emergency cleanup” after wild king nights. “That means that he destroyed the hotel room,” he alleged. “That was, for me, probably one of the hardest things to do. When you get there and you see the wreckage, you see the stains, you see the bodily fluids, you see the used condoms, you see the baby oil, half-used Astroglide oozing down the sides of the bottle and you have to pick it up. Broken glass, urine, blood. It wasn’t uncommon for there to be stains on furniture, stains on sheets that we needed to remove.”

He added: “It’s a little triggering for me because the smell of baby oil is just something that I don’t ever want to have to smell again. I kid you not, you could slip because there was baby oil all over the floor. There would be baby oil surrounding the bathtub and there would be a bathtub full of water, and you would reach down there to unplug and you feel the baby oil was in the tub.”

Pines further alleged that he once witnessed Diddy kicking a woman. Another time, he claimed he had to take a woman home after a party and believed her to be in distress. “I don’t know what took place,” Pines said. “All I can say is that when I brought her down to the car she was shaking. Physically shaking. She didn’t look like how she looked the night before. She said something to the effect of, ‘I’ve never done anything like this before.’”

In response to Pines’ claims, Diddy’s team directed Us to a previous statement issued after Pines filed a lawsuit against the rapper in December 2024: “No matter how many lawsuits are filed, it won’t change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone — man or woman, adult or minor. We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason. Fortunately, a fair and impartial judicial process exists to find the truth, and Mr. Combs is confident he will prevail in court.”

Jourdan Cha’taun, who worked as a personal chef for Diddy in the 2000s, said that she began “having constant anxiety attacks and heart palpitations” while in his employ. “I was diagnosed with stress-induced alopecia,” she recalled. “My hair started to fall out. And then I saw a cardiologist who said that my body couldn’t handle the stress levels. He said to me, ‘If you keep this job any longer than a year, you’ll be dead.’”

Cha’taun alleged that Diddy became “enraged” with her and shoved her after she told him she wanted to quit. “I went flying outside of the doorway and I ended up on my elbows and my butt,” she claimed. “I’m telling the office, ‘I’m gonna sue this motherf—er.’ They understood that I was upset but they were like, ‘If you sue him, your career is over. You will be blackballed. He does have the power to do that and he will do that.’ Puff scared me, so I kept quiet about things that I knew because I was afraid that something might happen to me.”

Feeling Pressured

In The Fall of Diddy and his lawsuit against the rapper, Pines claimed that his former boss once pressured him into having sex with a guest at a party.

“I think my life changed a lot on that day and I’ve never really recovered from it,” Pines alleged. “This particular incident, he’d been drinking all day. … He’s out of his mind at this point. You could tell. Again, he’s in rare form, as we would call that. Rare form. I remember hearing the words, ‘Prove your loyalty to me, king.’”

Pines claimed that Diddy then gave him “a quick massage like a coach would give a player that’s about to enter the game” before handing him a condom and directing him to a guest who was on the couch.

“I froze before it took place, didn’t know what was really happening,” Pines said. “In the moment, it just felt like, ‘What? Is this fun for him? Is this a test? Is this for entertainment? Does he know that he’s actually doing this? Is he that gone?’ I didn’t know what to do. She gave me the consent, like, ‘Yeah,’ nodded her head. And I performed for a little bit. And then I ran out of there as soon as I didn’t see him in my sight anymore.”

Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy is now streaming on Peacock. The Fall of Diddy is available on Max.

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