The Fall of Diddy’ Trailer Chronicles Disgraced Mogul’s Downfall: ‘We Did Not Realize the Extent of the Darkness’
The primary trailer for Investigation Discovery’s after two-part docuseries, The Fall of Diddy, dropped on Thursday morning (Jan. 9), with a preview of its try to unpack disgraced wealthy person Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ arise to international stardom and precipitous plunge amid dozens of allegations of sexual abuse, rape and attack.
“Spanning Combs’ decades-long impact on music and popular culture, from his early days as a talented creative to his 2024 arrest, the docuseries uncovers the insidious and terrifying allegations of sexual assault, abusive behavior, violence, and other disturbing claims that lay beneath his success,” reads a let fall concerning the layout from Maxine Productions (Tranquility at the I’m ready: The Twilight Facet of Youngsters TV) with unedited reporting from Rolling Stone Motion pictures.
The layout will breeze on January 27 and January 28 (from Sept. 11 p.m. ET on Investigation Discovery, nearest streaming on Max), promising to inform the tale of Combs’ generation from the viewpoint of those that, “saw his alleged violence and temper during his college days at Howard University and the onset of his career with Bad Boy Records, to those who knew him at the height of his influence and power in recent years.”
The 90-second trailer includes a layout of interviews from numerous track business friends and artists testifying to the cloudy facet of the Sinister Boy Data founder, with most of the disciplines revealing their earlier long-held fears of talking out concerning the once-powerful track impresario. “I’ve been quite for 18 years,” says an unseen girl in voiceover on the supremacy of the trailer. “I am absolutely nervous sharing what I’ve seen,” she provides, as a person says, “I can no long just remain silent.” Former VIBE editor-in- Danyel Smith — talking for the primary era on digital camera about Diddy’s alleged violent habits towards her — provides, “This is where I’m supposed to be.”
The primary glimpse intercuts scenes from Diddy’s glory years within the Nineties with somber pictures of the various Combs insiders and business figures interviewed within the layout, which is able to come with former Danity Kane singer D. Planks, in addition to Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who has accused Diddy of sexual harassment. As well as, the document will come with feedback from journalist Cheyenne Roundtree, former bodyguard Roger Bonds, former private chef Jourdan Cha-Taun and previous motive force Wardel Fenderson (who speaks for the primary era and testified about Combs’ aim to bribe him), along with Thalia Graves, a girl who has alleged that Combs violently raped her in 2001 and threatened her into quietness.
“Through these interviews combined with a vast collection of archival footage, The Fall of Diddy paints a holistic picture of a mogul who is alleged to have wielded his extensive power and influence to obscure, for decades, a pattern of abuse and violence that left an unprecedented amount of pain and suffering in his wake,” reads the observation.
In a specifically harrowing soundbite, Jones recollects Diddy pronouncing, “I’m Puff Daddy, I’ll eat your face off!”
The trailer contains the now-infamous 2016 photos of Diddy operating i’m sick a lodge hallway in only a towel in pursuit of longtime ex-girlfriend singer Cassie ahead of he appears to assault her in an incident stuck on surveillance photos. Cassie sued Combs in November 2023 over allegations that he many times bodily abused her over a decade right through their courting, together with claims he raped her and compelled her to “engage in sex acts with male sex workers” as he masturbated; the lawsuit was once settled a past then it was once filed, with the phrases stored undisclosed.
Closing July, in an emotional New York Times private essay, Smith spread out for the primary era about Diddy’s alleged harassment and intimidation of her within the overdue Nineties. It incorporated a scene from a 2015 birthday party — six months ahead of the attack within the lodge video — the place Cassie shakily requested her “How are you doing it?” Smith, who mentioned she’d additionally been a sufferer of sexual attack, mentioned she responded, “doing what?,” to which Cassie added, “like, how are you managing?”
“We each wanted to say something. It seemed that neither of us could find the words,” Smith wrote.
Combs, 55, is recently in federal custody then being denied bail thrice as he awaits trial on counts of intercourse trafficking and racketeering in a federal case this is slated to start on Would possibly 5; he has pleaded no longer accountable to the fees that might land him a generation sentence if he’s convicted. He’s additionally going through greater than two batch court cases from family accusing him of drugging, raping, assaulting and intimidating sufferers, with lawyers for one of the crucial sufferers pronouncing they’re representing no less than 120 alternative alleged sufferers; Combs had denied the entire allegations.
“We did not realize the extent of the darkness,” says one of the most interview disciplines within the trailer. Some other Diddy document, the 90-minute Diddy: The Making of a Sinister Boy, will debut on Peacock on January 14.
Attend to The Fall of Diddy trailer beneath.