Investigation Discovery, the true-crime community behind this 12 months’s bombshell Quiet on Set, introduced on Wednesday they’re in manufacturing on a docuseries exploring the rise and fall of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The multipart doc, set for a 2025 launch, will evaluate “the rise and affect of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and the allegations of violent conduct and criminality which have trailed the music mogul,” per a launch.
“As accounts of sexual assault, abusive behaviors, and different disturbing claims floor, the doc traces the story of this self-proclaimed Dangerous Boy, unraveling allegations of a sample of depravity,” the discharge continues.
Launched earlier this spring, Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV, highlighted the voices of many former Nickelodeon stars describing poisonous atmosphere claims round exhibits created and run by producer Dan Schneider. The sequence far exceeded preliminary expectations and earned two Emmy nominations.
ID’s announcement comes simply at some point after Diddy was detained pending trial in New York; federal brokers arrested him on Monday on prices of intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
The three-county indictment, unsealed on Tuesday, accused Combs of varied crimes associated to an alleged decades-long sample of bodily and sexual violence in opposition to ladies in his orbit. Federal prosecutors charged him with intercourse trafficking and racketeering for guiding an unlimited prison enterprise by way of which he assaulted and trafficked ladies with the assistance of his varied companies from at the very least 2008.
The arrest was a significant replace to Diddy’s deepening authorized bother. Final week, his former bandmate Daybreak Richard filed a brand new sexual assault lawsuit which included claims of battery, false imprisonment, withholding hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in unpaid royalties and wages, in addition to stealing her copyrighted works.
Richard’s grievance was at the very least the eighth introduced in opposition to him since his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura filed a lawsuit detailing years of bodily and sexual abuse final 12 months. That motion shortly settled however led to different accusers, together with Liza Gardner, Joi Dickerson-Neal and Crystal McKinney, bringing comparable complaints.
Producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones additionally filed a sexual assault lawsuit in opposition to Combs in February, accusing the music mogul of harassing and trafficking him. Diddy filed a movement to dismiss Lil Rod’s swimsuit in August. He has denied the opposite allegations as effectively.
In March, federal legislation enforcement raided Diddy’s houses as a part of their human trafficking investigation. In Might, a 2016 video surfaced exhibiting Combs beating Ventura, operating out of a lodge room chasing her towards the elevator, grabbing her by the again of the neck, throwing her on the ground, kicking her, shoving her and dragging her by her sweatshirt. Later within the footage, he returned to kick her once more, after which threw an object from a close-by desk at her.
ID’s docuseries will characteristic the voices of many who’ve alleged acts of violence and brutality, in addition to archival footage and in-depth reporting from Rolling Stone. The venture is being produced for ID by Maxine Productions and IPC in affiliation with Rolling Stone Movies, and can launch on ID and Max.