I'm Telling the Story NO ONE ELSE IS'

The outspoken entrepreneur reveals why he made his new docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs — and what he was most shocked to learn about the disgraced star

- by CHRISTINA GARIBALDI & JAIME HARKIN

When Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson revealed in December 2023 that he was working on a documentary about Sean “Diddy” Combs as sexual assault allegations against the music mogul began to mount, no one was quite sure how serious he was.

Jackson has been trolling Combs — who was sentenced to 50 months in prison after being convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in July — for years, and it seemed entirely possible the announcement was simply another attempt to get under his longtime rival’s skin. But Jackson had every intention of following through, and on Dec. 2, Netflix debuted Sean Combs: The Reckoning.

The four-part docuseries — executive produced by Jackson and directed by Emmy winner Alexandria Stapleton — is as expansive as it is damning: former friends and associates recall Combs’ ruthless rise to fame and subsequent reign of terror as the head of Bad Boy Entertainment, and alleged victims (including Joi Dickerson-Neal and Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, both of whom have lawsuits pending against Combs, as well as former Danity Kane member Aubrey O’Day) share disturbing details of sexual harassment and assault. The disgraced mogul is also implicated in the murders of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, and, in footage Combs, 56, himself orchestrated — he'd hired a videographer to film him in the days leading up to his September 2024 arrest — he's seen ordering his legal team to hire someone who “has dealt in the dirtiest of dirty business” and declaring that he needs hand sanitizer after shaking hands with fans in the Harlem streets.