The Making of a Bad Boy’ doc’s biggest claims
As Diddy’s house of cards crumbles around him, his inner circle speaks out in a new documentary.
Called “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy,” the 90-minute documentary, covers the disgraced and currently incarcerated rapper and music mogul’s early years.
It features exclusive interviews with Sean Combs’ childhood friends, former bodyguard, former employees, alleged victims, and singer Al B. Sure! (who was married to Combs’ late ex, Kim Porter, 1989 to 1990).
Combs, 55, is in federal custody, awaiting trial on charges of prostitution, sex trafficking and racketeering. He was arrested on Sept. 16.
In October, there were further reports of Combs’ alleged “freak off” sex parties, which federal prosecutors claim sometimes involved women who were threatened or coerced into performing grueling, hourslong sex acts. Both men and women have claimed they were sexually assaulted by Combs in a wave of lawsuits over the past several months.
The rapper, who was denied bail for a third time in November 2024, is currently behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He has denied all of the allegations made against him.
“As Mr. Combs’ legal team has emphasized, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus,” an attorney for Combs said in a statement in October.
“That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors,” the statement continued. “He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court if and when claims are filed and served, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”
Here are some of the biggest bombshell allegations from the documentary.
Combs was allegedly bullied as a kid
Tim Patterson, who was a childhood friend of Combs, said on screen in the doc, “He is public enemy No. 1 right now.”
“A lot of things that are being attached to Sean now, I can’t condone any of the things that I’ve heard or seen,” he added. “He’s monsterized now. But monsters are made. That’s my little bro.”
Patterson said that he met Combs when they were both young children in Mount Vernon, New York.
“He was looked at as the rich kid. Sean was the kid that people could smell was not tough,” he said.
“Sean was always bullied,” Patterson alleged. He recalled a bigger kid who “would pick on [Combs] and hit him and make him cry and take his bike and just do mean stuff.”
An allegation that Kim Porter was murdered
Singer Al B Sure! (nee Albert Joseph Brown III), 56, was involved with Combs’ late ex, Kim Porter, before she dated Combs. Al B. Sure! and Porter had a child together, Quincy Brown. Porter died of pneumonia at age 47 in 2018.
Onscreen in the doc, Al B. Sure! said about Porter’s death, “her murder. Am I supposed to say ‘allegedly?’”
He claimed that he saw Porter shortly before her death, and she looked like she was in good health. After he heard she died of pneumonia, he alleged that he had a feeling of, “Nah, something is not right with this.”
Al B. Sure! claimed, “After Sean starts to see Kimberly, Kimberly and I remain friends. She starts to confide in me. What she did say is, ‘Something is not right. His soul has gone completely dark like he’s just not there.’”
He alleged that Porter made him promise not to speak about what she told him about her life with Combs, “because she was in complete fear of my life.”
The singer added, “Before her death, she was keeping a diary and things of that nature. Someone got the passcode to her phone and her computer, and they found out she was writing what was going on behind closed doors.”
Porter also had three children with Combs: son Christian, and twin daughters, Jessie and D’lila.
Text onscreen in the doc said that in 2024, Porter’s children released a statement saying “there was no foul play” in her death and called the rumors “false and hurtful.”
More onscreen said that the Los Angeles Police Department “stated they had no suspicion of foul play and that there was no criminal involvement in Kim Porter’s death. The coroner’s office determined that her official cause of death was lobar pneumonia.”
Diddy accused of raping woman with TV remote
Ashley Parham, who spoke on screen without showing her face, claimed she met one of Combs’ friends at a bar in early 2018, who was actually a “scouter” for Combs. The friend allegedly FaceTimed Combs, where she suggested to the mogul that he had “something to do with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.”
One month later, Combs’ pal allegedly invited Parham to his apartment. She claimed Combs arrived with a few other people, and “gang-raped” her as revenge for her Shakur comments.
Parham sued Combs in Oct. 2024 over the alleged incident. She alleged that Combs pressed a knife against her face and threatened to give her a “Glasgow smile” — a large cut from the corners of the mouth. He then allegedly took off her clothes, covered her in liquid, drugged her and raped her with a TV remote.
Per her filing, Combs and two other men then allegedly raped her anally before she was vaginally raped by a fourth man. Parham claimed that Combs and his associates told her, “They could ship me off to anyone in the world and I would never be seen again by my parents or my loved ones, and they were taking me that night.”
She alleged that she eventually escaped from Combs’ house and ran to a neighbor’s residence.
“This sheriff didn’t offer me an ambulance, he didn’t offer me a ride to the police station. He just basically told me to find my own way home. There was just something very off about his demeanor,” Parham alleged. Her lawyer, Ariel Mitchell, said that when she later contacted the cops, they claimed that Parham’s report from that night had been filed. Text onscreen said that the documentary producers requested records from the police, but that request was denied.
“I’ve become incredibly reclusive,” she said in the doc. “I don’t trust anyone.”
Text on screen also read that Combs’ attorneys said that Parham’s allegations “[w]ere fabricated based on false narratives that the media and certain plaintiffs and their lawyers have been perpetuating without regard for the truth.”
An allegation that he used his employees to lure women
A former Bad Boy employee spoke out anonymously, without appearing on camera. He explained that he wished to obscure his identity because “Sean Combs, for over three decades, allegedly he’s had people hurt.”
The employee said that he met Combs in 2015 or 2016.
“One of the first times I really started getting close with [Combs], he gave me some Bad Boy gear and told me this is blood in, blood out. Blood out, that means you’re dead. When you’re in that situation, you kind of feel forced and bound,” he claimed.
The employee alleged that within “months” of working with Combs, “He started sending me on these missions” that were “way outside” the job description for an employee at a record label.
He alleged that Combs would send him to clubs and tell him to “put on your Bad Boy gear, go cruise for girls, bring them back to the house.”
The employee also alleged that he saw Combs have sex with girls who were “for sure” underage.
Text onscreen said that Combs’ attorney replied to that allegation by saying, “in court the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone – adult or minor, man or woman.”
His mom allegedly had wild parties
Patterson, who lived in Combs’ house with him during their childhoods, claimed that Combs’ mother, Janice Combs, threw wild parties.
He alleged that from a young age, Combs “was around all type of alcohol, he was around reefer smoke. He was around drug addicts, around lesbians, around homosexuals, he was around pimps and pushers. That was just who was in our house.”
Patterson also alleged that they were exposed to sex from a young age, although he didn’t specify how young.
“At night, it wouldn’t be a thing to mistakenly walk into one of the bedrooms and you got a couple in there butt naked. That’s what we were privy to. This is what we were fed,” he said.
Patterson added, “Was it desensitizing us? I’m sure it was. Were we aware of it? No. That was just Saturday night.”
His bodyguard claimed Diddy ‘could have’ been involved in The Notorious B.I.G’s murder
Gene Deal, who was Combs’ bodyguard from 1991 to 2005, reminisced about being there the night that The Notorious B.I.G, aka Biggie Smalls (nee Christopher George Latore Wallace), was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1997 at age 24.
The perpetrator remains one of rap’s biggest mysteries, but the documentary addresses rumors that Combs was involved.
Deal recalled “it was crazy” the week that B.I.G. got murdered because Biggie Smalls “was telling people he had to be in London,” but Deal recalled that “Puff was telling people he ain’t going to London that whole week.”
After Biggie Smalls got shot and was brought to the hospital, “Puff ran out the hospital door and grabbed my arm and said, ‘Gene, we’ve got to pray,’” Deal claimed.
Deal recalled that he replied to Combs, “‘Pray for what? That n—- is dead, bro.’ [Combs] just was stunned. He had this look in his eye like he couldn’t believe [The Notorious B.I.G.] was dead,” the former bodyguard recalled.
When asked if he thought Combs had any involvement in B.I.G’s death, Deal said, “I think that he placed B.I.G. in that atmosphere. So did he directly have something to do with it? He could have.”
Text on screen noted that Combs has always denied having involvement in B.I.G.’s death.
In 2017, Combs said on “The Wendy Williams Show,” “I’ll always feel some form of responsibility because I’m in this thing with him. He’s my artist. He was supposed to go to London that night and I let him talk me into not going to London and staying in LA. And that’s something that really bothered me throughout my life.”
In response to the doc, Combs’ attorneys said in a statement Monday: “These documentaries include unchecked claims and provide platforms for baseless conspiracy theories without accountability or evidence. In the case of the Peacock documentary in particular, the motivations and credibility of those being interviewed must be questioned.”
“Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy” premieres on Peacock Tuesday.
