Seven chilling details were left out of the brand-new bombshell documentary all about Sean 'Diddy' Combs, as viewers make the exact same complaint.
Earlier this month (2 December), the four-part docuseries titled Sean Combs: The Reckoning hit Netflix, with 50 Cent listed as one of the programme's executive producers who worked alongside Emmy Award–winning director Alexandria Stapleton.
According to the streamer, the doc unpacks the 'allegations behind Sean 'Diddy' Combs and his Bad Boy empire, spanning decades of his life and career', whereas Combs himself slammed the series as a 'shameless hit piece' by 'a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta' against him.
For context, last year, Combs was arrested and accused of running a sex-trafficking scheme. A federal jury returned its verdict in October 2025, finding Combs guilty on two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution.
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The disgraced rapper, who maintained his innocence throughout the trial and rejected every allegation, received a four-year, two-month prison term and was cleared of three other charges, including a racketeering count that could have carried a life sentence.
Now, while the doc covered a lot – including Combs' alleged feud with Tupac Shakur, alleged abusive relationship with Casandra 'Cassie' Ventura and assault allegations – there are several aspects of his life and allegations that weren't covered at all.
Many Netflix viewers hit out over such omissions as one social media user penned: "That series went really easy on him!!!"
Another agreed: "I think they left out too much."
And a third added: "Diddy is just disturbing in general."
So, what did the series 'leave out'?
Alleged 'freak offs' beyond Cassie
Prosecutors accused Combs of using his companies to arrange what they called staged sexual events involving heavy drug use, coercion and secret recording.
However, the docuseries only touched the surface, relying mainly on Clayton Howard, a male sex worker who described encounters involving Combs and Ventura. He spoke only about the threesomes he took part in, so the wider allegations about other events and other women stayed untouched.
Kim Porter's death
The Reckoning explored Combs’ history with women, including his long relationship with Kim Porter, but avoided her death in 2018.
She died from lobar pneumonia, yet rumours swirled for years about foul play. Her children rejected those claims after Combs’ 2024 arrest, calling the online speculation cruel and false.
"We have seen so many hurtful and false rumours circulating about our parents, Kim Porter and Sean Combs' relationship, as well as about our mom's tragic passing, that we feel the need to speak out," they wrote in an Instagram statement at the time.
The siblings added: "While it has been incredibly difficult to reconcile how she could be taken from us too soon, the cause of her death has long been established. There was no foul play. Grief is a lifelong process, and we ask that everyone respect our request for peace as we continue to cope with her loss every day."
None of this made it into the documentary.
The white parties and their guest lists
Combs built part of his image through lavish summer parties in the Hamptons. The all-white dress code became a cultural moment in the late nineties and 2000s, drawing singers, actors, athletes and high-profile business figures, growing more theatrical every year.
His team later pushed back on attempts to link those events to criminal allegations.
“It’s disappointing to see the media and social commentators twist these cultural moments into something they were not," Combs' representatives' statement read at the time. "Shaming celebrities who attended, taking video clips and photos out of context, and trying to link these events to false allegations is simply untrue."
The docuseries barely nodded to any of it.
Cassie Ventura's testimony
In May 2025, Ventura detailed the alleged abuse she endured and the pressure she felt to take part in the 'freak offs'. She described dissociation, drugs used to stay awake and recordings she believed were meant to control her.
"I would take [pills] all the time. If we ran out, we would call friends, drug dealers," she said at the time. "For me, it was dissociative and numbing. I can’t imagine doing any of it without a buffer — it was emotionless. I didn’t want to have sex with a stranger."
She spent four days on the stand, yet none of her account appeared in the series, and she didn’t participate in it.
Kid Cudi's claim that his car was firebombed
The series mentioned bad blood between Combs and fellow rapper Kid Cudi but skipped one of the most serious accusations.
At Combs’ 2025 trial, Cudi described his Porsche being hit with a Molotov cocktail in early 2012 while he was seeing Ventura. Prosecutors tied the incident to Combs while Ventura said she believed the same and recalled Combs threatening to blow up the car.
He denied any role in the attack.
Combs' life after the verdict
The jury convicted Combs of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and cleared him of the broader racketeering and trafficking charges. He received a 50-month sentence, part of which was already served.
By the time the Netflix series aired, he was housed at FCI Fort Dix after a transfer from Brooklyn yet an update about his daily life behind bars was notably left out.
A two-decade feud with executive producer 50 Cent
50 Cent - real name Curtis Jackson III - has a credit which sits on every episode, yet the programme never acknowledges his long feud with Combs.
Their clash dates back to a 2006 diss track, simmered for years and reignited after federal raids on Combs' homes in 2024. 50 mocked Combs' legal troubles on social media and later said he had been calling out this behaviour for years.
"Look, it seems like I'm doing some extremely outrageous things, but I haven't. It's really me just saying what I've been saying for 10 years," 50 told PEOPLE. "Now it's becoming more full-facing in the news with the Puffy stuff, but away from that, I'm like, 'Yo, it's just my perspective because I stayed away from that stuff the entire time, because this is not my style.' "
As we say, Combs' team dismissed the docuseries as a 'shameful hit piece' and accused the crew of using 'stolen footage that was never authorised for release'. Netflix later responded by calling Combs' comments 'false'.
"The footage of Combs leading up to his indictment and arrest were legally obtained," a representative for the streamer told Variety at the time.
"This is not a hit piece or an act of retribution. Curtis Jackson is an executive producer but does not have creative control. No one was paid to participate."
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is currently streaming on Netflix.
Topics: Netflix, Documentaries, TV And Film, Entertainment, Diddy, Celebrity, Music, Crime, Social Media
Rhiannon Ingle