Netflix’s Diddy documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning, from executive producer 50 Cent, features interviews with two of the jurors who handed the Bad Boy Records founder a split verdict earlier this year.
As Complex’s Shawn Setaro reported at the time, Diddy was found guilty of two Mann Act violations, but not guilty of the more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. He was later sentenced to 50 months, with appeal efforts now underway.
“When we were in the deliberation room and we’ve come to an agreement and we’re only saying that he’s guilty for these two counts, my words exactly were, ‘Oh s-h-i-t,’” Juror 160 said in the Alexandria Stapleton-directed doc when looking back on the verdict.
Asked if justice had been served in the case, another juror, identified only as Juror 75, said he “100 percent” thought so.
“We saw both sides of it and we came with our conclusions,” that juror said.
Deeper into the fourth episode of the doc, titled “Blink Again,” the two interviewed jurors spoke about Diddy and Cassie’s relationship. Cassie, notably, testified at Diddy’s trial and later urged the judge presiding over the case to consider that the 56-year-old “will always be the same cruel, power-hungry, manipulative man that he is.”
“That was a very, very interesting relationship,” Juror 75 said. “It’s two people in love. They are, like, overly loved. You cannot explain. She wanted to be with him. He took her for granted. He never thought that she’d leave. So it’s like both hands clapping together. You cannot clap with one hand. Both hands, like this, then you get the noise.”
Asked if Diddy was a “violent person,” Juror 160 pointed to 2016 hotel footage of Cassie being assaulted.
“Based on that InterContinental video, he can be,” the juror said. “Unforgivable, honestly. He can’t beat that small girl like that, the way he did.”
Juror 160, however, went on to connect this to the eventual verdict in the case, noting that domestic violence itself had not been formally charged.
“You can say he was a terrible person, but domestic violence wasn’t one of the charges,” she said.
Juror 75, meanwhile, expressed confusion at the details of Diddy and Cassie’s relationship.
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is now on Netflix. Ahead of its release, a rep for Diddy criticized the four-part series as “a shameful hit piece,” specifically zeroing in on the use of footage they say wasn’t authorized for release.
“Netflix is plainly desperate to sensationalize every minute of Mr. Combs’s life, without regard for truth, in order to capitalize on a never-ending media frenzy,” a spokesperson for Diddy said on Monday (Dec. 1). “If Netflix cared about truth or about Mr. Combs’s legal rights, it would not be ripping private footage out of context - including conversations with his lawyers that were never intended for public viewing. No rights in that material were ever transferred to Netflix or any third party.”
The spokesperson also questioned the involvement of 50 Cent, calling him “a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta,” a description to which 50 himself was quick to respond.
