Netflix’s Diddy documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoningfrom government producer 50 Cent, options interviews with two of the jurors who handed the Bad Boy Records founder a break up verdict earlier this yr.
As Complex’s Shawn Setaro reported at the time, Diddy was discovered responsible of two Mann Act violations, however not responsible of the extra critical fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering. He was later sentenced to 50 months, with attraction 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 mentioned in the Alexandria Stapleton-directed doc when wanting again on the verdict.
Asked if justice had been served in the case, one other juror, recognized solely as Juror 75, mentioned he “100 percent” thought so.
“We saw both sides of it and we came with our conclusions,” that juror mentioned.
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 decide presiding over the case to contemplate 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 mentioned. “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 lodge footage of Cassie being assaulted.
“Based on that InterContinental video, he can be,” the juror mentioned. “Unforgivable, honestly. He can’t beat that small girl like that, the way he did.”
Juror 160, nevertheless, went on to attach this to the eventual verdict in the case, noting that home 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 mentioned.
Juror 75, in the meantime, expressed confusion at the particulars of Diddy and Cassie’s relationship.
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is now on Netflix. Ahead of its launch, a rep for Diddy criticized the four-part sequence as “a shameful hit piece,” particularly zeroing in on the use of footage they are saying wasn’t licensed for launch.
“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 mentioned 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 additionally questioned the involvement of 50 Cent, calling him “a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta,” an outline to which 50 himself was fast to reply.