‘The Fall of Diddy’ Trailer For Two-Section Document Maps Rich person’s Downfall

The primary trailer for Investigation Discovery’s upcoming two-part docuseries, The Fall of Diddy, dropped on Thursday morning (Jan. 9), with a preview of its effort to unpack disgraced wealthy person Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ upward thrust to world stardom and precipitous plunge amid dozens of allegations of sexual abuse, rape and attack.

“Spanning Combs’ decades-long affect on song and pop culture, from his early days as a skilled inventive to his 2024 arrest, the docuseries uncovers the insidious and terrifying allegations of sexual attack, abusive conduct, violence, and different irritating claims that lay underneath his luck,” reads a free up in regards to the sequence from Maxine Productions (Quiet at the Set: The Darkish Facet of Youngsters TV) with unique reporting from Rolling Stone Movies.

The sequence will air on January 27 and January 28 (from Sept. 11 p.m. ET on Investigation Discovery, later streaming on Max), promising to inform the tale of Combs’ lifestyles from the point of view of those that, “noticed his alleged violence and mood all over his faculty days at Howard College and the onset of his profession with Unhealthy Boy Information, to those that knew him on the top of his affect and tool lately.”

The 90-second trailer includes a sequence of interviews from plenty of song business friends and artists testifying to the darkish facet of the Unhealthy Boy Information founder, with most of the topics revealing their earlier long-held fears of talking out in regards to the once-powerful song impresario. “I’ve been rather for 18 years,” says an unseen girl in voiceover on the most sensible of the trailer. “I’m completely fearful sharing what I’ve noticed,” she provides, as a person says, “I will be able to no lengthy simply stay silent.” Former VIBE editor-in-Leader Danyel Smith — talking for the primary time on digicam about Diddy’s alleged violent conduct towards her — provides, “That is the place I’m meant to be.”

The primary glimpse intercuts scenes from Diddy’s glory years within the Nineties with somber pictures of the numerous Combs insiders and business figures interviewed within the sequence, which is able to come with former Danity Kane singer D. Woods, 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 non-public chef Jourdan Cha-Taun and previous driving force Wardel Fenderson (who speaks for the primary time and testified about Combs’ try to bribe him), along with Thalia Graves, a lady who has alleged that Combs violently raped her in 2001 and threatened her into silence.

“Via those interviews mixed with an unlimited number of archival pictures, The Fall of Diddy paints a holistic image of a wealthy person who is claimed to have wielded his intensive energy and affect to difficult to understand, for many years, a development of abuse and violence that left an extraordinary quantity of ache and struggling in his wake,” reads the commentary.

In a in particular harrowing soundbite, Jones remembers Diddy announcing, “I’m Puff Daddy, I’ll consume your face off!”

The trailer contains the now-infamous 2016 pictures of Diddy working down a resort hallway in only a towel in pursuit of longtime ex-girlfriend singer Cassie ahead of he seems to attack her in an incident stuck on surveillance pictures. Cassie sued Combs in November 2023 over allegations that he time and again bodily abused her over a decade all over their courting, together with claims he raped her and compelled her to “have interaction in intercourse acts with male intercourse staff” as he masturbated; the lawsuit was once settled an afternoon after it was once filed, with the phrases saved secret.

Final July, in an emotional New York Instances non-public essay, Smith spread out for the primary time about Diddy’s alleged harassment and intimidation of her within the overdue Nineties. It integrated a scene from a 2015 birthday celebration — six months ahead of the attack within the resort 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 answered, “doing what?,” to which Cassie added, “like, how are you managing?”

“We each and every sought after to mention one thing. It appeared that neither people may to find the phrases,” Smith wrote.

Combs, 55, is these days in federal custody after being denied bail 3 times as he awaits trial on counts of intercourse trafficking and racketeering in a federal case this is slated to start out on Would possibly 5; he has pleaded now not in charge to the fees that might land him a lifestyles sentence if he’s convicted. He’s additionally going through greater than two dozen complaints from other folks accusing him of drugging, raping, assaulting and intimidating sufferers, with lawyers for one of the sufferers announcing they’re representing no less than 120 different alleged sufferers; Combs had denied all of the allegations.

“We didn’t understand the level of the darkness,” says one of the crucial interview topics within the trailer. Any other Diddy document, the 90-minute Diddy: The Making of a Unhealthy Boy, will debut on Peacock on January 14.

Watch The Fall of Diddy trailer underneath.