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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

The Tupac Connection Netflix Cut From The Diddy Doc REVEALED!-WEEK IN REVIEW

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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3.3911 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning shattered records with nearly twenty-two million viewers in its first week. Before it even aired, Diddy's legal team fired off a cease-and-desist letter calling it a shameful hit piece and threatening a billion-dollar lawsuit. No lawsuit was ever filed. No injunction. No emergency motion. Just noise.

So what actually happened, and what comes next?

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins us to break down the legal reality behind Diddy's threats. We examine what it would take to win a copyright claim over footage filmed by his own videographer, especially when reports suggest no formal contracts existed. Eric explains why stolen footage is far harder to prove than headlines suggest and walks us through defamation law for public figures, including the actual malice standard that makes celebrity lawsuits extraordinarily difficult to win.

Then there is the question of the footage itself. According to executive producer 50 Cent, Netflix only scratched the surface. In a recent interview, he confirmed he is sitting on one hundred forty hours of unreleased material and hinted it could end up on YouTube. Among the details that never made the final cut: Diddy allegedly fathered a child with Sarah Chapman, a woman who previously dated Tupac Shakur. The documentary also avoided the death of Kim Porter, the alleged firebombing of Kid Cudi's car after he dated Cassie, and civil lawsuits naming Diddy's sons in separate assault allegations.

We also dig into how Netflix obtained the behind-the-scenes footage in the first place. According to Diddy's own documentarian, it came from a fill-in freelancer brought in for just three days. Diddy's team called it stolen. Netflix says it was legally obtained.

With 50 Cent threatening to release more and Diddy's legal options looking weaker by the day, this story is far from over.

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0:00.0

This is the big breakdown.

0:02.2

A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden

0:05.9

Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

0:09.4

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski.

0:12.5

Here now, Tony Brewski.

0:16.9

50 cents as he's sitting on 140 hours of more footage.

0:22.5

The Netflix documentary used maybe a fraction of that.

0:25.4

Four episodes.

0:26.9

22 million views in the first week.

0:29.6

And according to Fitty, that was the appetizer.

0:33.4

The amuse bush, if you will.

0:35.9

He went on the Sherry show this week and said the quiet part out loud when Sherry asked if there'd be a season two.

0:42.5

His answer was simple.

0:44.1

Or I'll just put it on YouTube.

0:46.3

No filter, no editorial process, just raw, uncut material dumped straight into the internet for anyone to see.

0:51.5

And if you think that's an empty threat from a guy who's

0:54.7

been publicly feuding with Diddy for two decades, you haven't been paying attention to just

0:59.8

how Curtis Jackson operates. 50 cent, for those of you playing along at home. We're going to get into

1:07.0

all of this because there's a lot, it seems there's a lot more that he's sitting on,

1:11.9

which is fascinating. If you don't mind before we get into it, if you're not already here,

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1:21.7

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