Aubrey O’Day claimed Sean “Diddy” Combs tried to purchase her silence by turning over publishing rights on Unhealthy Boy Data.
“I obtained the publishing deal. I do know what it says. I understand how a lot cash it was giving me,” O’Day, 40, stated in a sneak peek from the documentary TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy, which releases by way of Tubi on Sunday, April 28.
The previous Danity Kane member claimed she was going to be given $300.30 for a “full launch of all claims in opposition to Diddy and lots of different gamers.”
As for what O’Day believed Diddy’s “motivation” was on the time, she alleged, “I feel you’d in all probability be making strikes to maintain as many individuals quiet as potential.”
O’Day famous that when she appeared on the publishing deal, “it stated something however I’m being made entire financially once more.” She added, “In reality, it requested me to not be capable to have entry to my story and my expertise anymore. It requested me particularly to remain silent and by no means converse poorly a couple of human. So then I spotted, one thing actually unhealthy is coming.”
A supply near Diddy, 54, with information of the state of affairs refuted O’Day’s declare about everybody signing an NDA. “Final yr, when he reassigned his portion of the publishing to Unhealthy Boy artists, an unprecedented transfer throughout the business and which he didn’t need to do, not all artists signed an NDA, opposite to what she claims,” the insider instructed Us Weekly.
Us Weekly reached out to Diddy and O’Day’s reps for remark.
In September 2023, Diddy reassigned his Unhealthy Boy Data publishing rights again to the artists and writers. “It’s simply doing the proper factor,” Diddy instructed Selection on the time. “I feel that we as an business, and as a folks, need to look within the mirror and make a shift ahead. It’s about evolving, main by instance and reforming an business that wants it, in a world that wants reform.”
The documentary comes after Diddy’s properties in each Los Angeles and Miami have been raided by Homeland Safety.
“Earlier right this moment, Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) New York executed legislation enforcement actions as a part of an ongoing investigation, with help from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our native legislation enforcement companions,” Homeland Safety shared in a March assertion to Us. “We are going to present additional info because it turns into obtainable.”
After information of the raids broke, it was broadly reported that they have been in reference to a federal intercourse trafficking investigation. Diddy’s lawyer Aaron Dyer claimed that the legislation enforcement used a “gross overuse of military-level pressure.”
“There isn’t any excuse for the extreme present of pressure and hostility exhibited by authorities or the best way his kids and workers have been handled,” learn an announcement shared with Us in March, including that the raids have been an “unprecedented ambush” and claimed they have been “paired with a sophisticated, coordinated media presence” which resulted in “a untimely rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing greater than a witch hunt based mostly on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.”
The assertion concluded: “There was no discovering of prison or civil legal responsibility with any of those allegations. Mr. Combs is harmless and can proceed to struggle each single day to clear his identify.”
Since November 2023, a number of people have accused Diddy of sexual assault, which he has denied.