Netflix premiered the four-part documentary series Sean Combs: The Reckoning on Monday, December 2, 2025. The series examines the career of Sean “Diddy” Combs and the sexual assault and trafficking allegations that led to his 2025 conviction and prison sentence.
The project is directed by Alexandria Stapleton and executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson through his G-Unit Film and Television company. Netflix acquired the series in a bidding war in May 2024.
50 Cent first announced the documentary on December 7, 2023, shortly after multiple civil lawsuits accused Combs of sexual assault and rape. At the time, 50 Cent said proceeds would go to victims of sexual abuse. The original working title was Diddy Do It? The final title is Sean Combs: The Reckoning.
Production captured events in the six days before Combs’s federal arrest in September 2024. In July 2025, a jury acquitted Combs of racketeering and sex trafficking but convicted him on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. In October 2025 he was sentenced to 50 months in prison where he is currently serving the sentence at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey.
The official trailer, released December 1, 2025, opens with audio of Combs on a phone call days before his arrest saying, “We need to find someone who will work with us who has worked in the dirtiest of dirty businesses. We are losing.” The trailer includes archival footage of Combs at different stages of his career, clips from his 2025 trial, and brief shots of parties. A voiceover states, “Everything in life, you’re gonna have people that are bad and people that are good. You have to choose your side.”
The series contains interviews with former Bad Boy artists and employees, including Aubrey O’Day, Dawn Richard, Ma$e, Mark Curry, and Kirk Burrowes, a co-founder of Bad Boy. It also includes one of the earliest civil accusers, Joi Dickerson-Neal, and jurors from the 2025 federal trial. Additional interviewees are William Lesane, cousin of Tupac Shakur, and several Making the Band contestants.
The documentary uses archival footage, some of which Combs’s team claims was taken without permission. On December 1, a spokesperson for Combs called the series “a shameful hit piece” and said Netflix used “stolen footage” that was never authorized for release. Director Alexandria Stapleton stated that all footage was obtained legally.
50 Cent commented to Netflix’s Tudum site: “I’m grateful to everyone who came forward to tell their truth. I’m proud to have Alexandria Stapleton bring this important story to the screen.”
Within hours of release, the series trended on X under hashtags #DiddyDoc and #DiddyReckoning. Users posted clips from the trailer showing Combs appearing distressed on the phone. Some called the project “explosive” because of the timing and new interviews. Others criticized it as a personal attack driven by 50 Cent’s long-standing feud with Combs. As of midday December 2, no aggregated viewer reviews were available yet because the episodes had only been live for a few hours.
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is now streaming on Netflix worldwide as part of standard subscriptions.
