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Rapper 50 Cent has introduced that his manufacturing firm might be making a documentary about Sean “Diddy” Combs, who in current weeks has been accused of rape and sexual assault by 4 separate girls.
On Wednesday, a consultant for 50 Cent (actual identify Curtis James Jackson III) confirmed to TMZ that the 48-year-old rapper’s manufacturing firm G-Unit Films and Television is creating a documentary in regards to the allegations in opposition to Combs. The rep mentioned proceeds from the documentary will profit victims of sexual assault and rape.
Jackson teased a snippet of the documentary on Instagram on Wednesday. In the clip, former Bad Boy Records rapper Mark Curry mentioned Combs would spike bottles of Moët with a substance that may make girls at nightclubs “slippery.” Curry alleged that Combs would inform his mates and associates to not drink from sure bottles.
Curry continued, claiming as soon as girls who drank from the bottles have been presumably below the affect of one thing, Combs would put drugs into their mouths.
Jackson might be an government producer of the documentary. His firm, G-Unit Films and Television, has produced myriad true crime TV reveals and podcasts.
Combs, 54, has denied all allegations in opposition to him, together with ones from a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that declare the rapper “sex trafficked and gang raped” a 17-year-old lady.
As information of the lawsuit involving a minor was circulating, Combs posted a press release to Instagram and wrote, “enough is enough.”
“For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy,” he continued. “Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday. Let me absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”
Also on Wednesday, whereas selling the documentary, Jackson took goal at rapper Rick Ross, in addition to Combs.
He shared lyrics from Ross’s verse on the Rocko tune U.O.E.N.O. the place Ross raps, “Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it.”
“Molly” is the frequent avenue identify for the drug MDMA, additionally known as ecstasy.
Jackson shared a photograph of Combs and Ross collectively. It is unclear if Ross may even be a topic within the new documentary.
Jackson has teased the movie below a number of totally different working titles, one being Diddy Do It? As of now, it’s unclear what the documentary might be known as, or when will probably be launched.
The allegations in opposition to Diddy
In November, Combs’ former longtime associate R&B singer Cassie Ventura accused the music mogul of repeated rape and bodily assault spanning practically a decade. In her lawsuit, Ventura, who was signed to Combs’ document label, mentioned she was “trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of abuse, violence and sex trafficking.” Ventura cited quite a few situations of graphic abuse in her lawsuit, together with alleged situations the place Combs “punched, beat, kicked and stomped” her.
As information of Ventura’s go well with was breaking, Jackson took to Instagram to add a scowling selfie. In the caption, he appeared to mock Combs’ moniker “Brother Love.”
“Damn brother love, brother love, brother love, you out here looking CRAZY AS A MF. LMAO,” he wrote.
Combs and Ventura settled the lawsuit someday after she filed. The phrases of the settlement will not be publicly recognized.
Since Ventura’s go well with, Combs has been hit with three extra.
In one lawsuit, Joi Dickerson-Neal mentioned she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs in 1991. Dickerson-Neal appeared alongside Combs in a music video for the Finesse and Synquis tune Straight From The Soul.
Dickerson-Neal accused him of slipping an unknown substance into her drink after which raping her. In her lawsuit, she claimed he shared a recording of the rape with different males within the music business as a type of “revenge porn.”
A 3rd girl accused Combs and R&B singer Aaron Hall of sexually assaulting her and a pal at an house within the early Nineteen Nineties. The girl, recognized solely as Jane Doe, mentioned she and her pal have been “coerced” into having intercourse.
The fourth lawsuit in opposition to Combs — one claiming he raped and trafficked a 17-year-old lady in 2003 — included allegations that he invited the lady, recognized solely as Jane Doe, to his recording studio, the place he “plied” her with medication and alcohol. Jane Doe mentioned she was unable to consent to intercourse. The lawsuit claims she was “gang raped” by Combs, Harve Pierre, the previous president of Bad Boy Entertainment, and one other unnamed particular person.
As extra girls have come ahead to accuse Combs of rape and sexual assault, Jackson has continued to put up on-line, slamming the Mo Money Mo Problems rapper. Despite backing Combs’ accusers, Jackson has brazenly fretted that Combs can be “fine” as a result of he has “so much money.”
Combs and Jackson have had unhealthy blood on and off because the 2000s, when Jackson claimed Combs might have been concerned within the demise of rapper Biggie Smalls, a.okay.a. Notorious B.I.G.
Why now?
Combs, like a number of different influential folks, has been sued below the New York Adult Survivors Act, which in May 2022 created a one-year window for grownup survivors of sexual assault to file a authorized declare, even when the statute of limitations has expired. The window to file a lawsuit in opposition to an alleged abuser started on Nov. 24, 2022, and expired precisely one yr later.
Jamie Foxx, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Axl Rose of the band Guns N’ Roses have been additionally accused of sexual assault below the laws.
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