Aubrey O’Day’s Claims Put P Diddy Under the Microscope — Untangling the Kim Porter and Cassie Ventura Saga

Netflix just lit a match under the Sean Combs conversation with a four-part docuseries that does not tiptoe. It lands a few weeks after Combs began a 50-month sentence, and it is executive-produced by Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson with filmmaker Alexandria Stapleton at the helm. The show tracks his rise and unloads a stack of allegations and firsthand stories, while Combs' team calls it a smear and is already lawyering up. Buckle up.

What this series is aiming to do

'Sean Combs: The Reckoning' is a four-episode look at Combs' public empire and private mess, told by former colleagues, collaborators, and people who say they were in the room for some very dark moments. It revisits old scandals, surfaces new ones, and threads his relationships with Kim Porter and Cassie Ventura through the business timeline. Combs' legal team has blasted it as a shameful hit piece and sent Netflix a cease-and-desist on Monday.

Aubrey O'Day says the quiet part out loud

Danity Kane alum Aubrey O'Day shows up with receipts. In the series, she reads explicit emails she says Combs sent her back in 2008, and says her exit from Danity Kane happened after she refused his advances. She also recounts being told about an affidavit that described her being found intoxicated and assaulted; she says even she struggled to process what that meant for her.

"I don't want to just f*** you, I want to turn you out. I make my woman what I tell her to do and she loves it... If you change your mind and get ready to do what I say, hit me."

O'Day also voices the confusion and trauma around what she was told happened to her, asking: "Does this mean I was raped? Is that what this means? I don't even know if I was raped and I don't want to know."

Episode 3, 'Official Girl': how the personal and the professional collide

The third episode is where the show really tightens the screws. It opens in 2024 with Combs on camera talking about depositing $200 million just days before his arrest, then rewinds to late-90s Bad Boy after Biggie's death. From there, it keeps braiding the career machine with the private life.

• A Bad Boy co-founder recalls Combs referring to Misa Hylton as his 'first project,' noting times when she needed money while raising their son, Justin.
• Al B. Sure says that when he realized Combs and Kim Porter were together, he jokingly told her to marry Puff and have kids because of the money. The laugh lands, but the doc frames it against the reality of Combs managing multiple relationships at once.
• Artist Kaleena Harper describes Porter as the woman in the room who would speak her mind, calling her 'that b*tch' with obvious respect.
• The late 90s and early 2000s section hits the 1999 nightclub shooting case, assault charges, and a brutal dust-up with Steve Stoute over the 'Hate Me Now' video that allegedly left Stoute with a broken arm and jaw. A string of collaborators eventually peeled off.
• Combs pivots into TV with 'Making the Band.' O'Day reenters the story with those emails and her claim she was fired for turning him down.
• The Cassie Ventura thread becomes central: the doc says Combs tried to balance being with Porter while starting a relationship with Cassie, who was reportedly 19 at the time. A former sex worker who says she worked with Combs describes witnessing abusive incidents involving Cassie, including alleged assaults that had her leaving and coming back under pressure.
• The episode underlines the scale of the legal cloud, noting nearly 70 civil suits were pending when filming was underway.

One odd footnote the series nods to: a social-media recap from Glock Topickz that flagged that opening scene about the $200 million deposit. It is one of those tiny details that makes you blink.

Netflix vs. Combs: rights, footage, and the 50 Cent factor

Combs' camp says the doc is one-sided, fueled by personal grudges, and even claims the production used improperly obtained footage. Netflix pushed back hard, saying it has the necessary rights and that it invited Combs to sit for interviews multiple times; he declined. Director Alexandria Stapleton says the project went through a heavy legal vetting process and stayed locked down during production, noting that Combs has filmed himself for decades, so archival material is abundant.

"The claims being made about Sean Combs: The Reckoning are false... This is not a hit piece or an act of retribution."

Combs' lawyers, meanwhile, are treating it like a hostile exercise from a rival, pointing to 50 Cent's role behind the scenes.

So where does that leave things?

The series is built to provoke, and it succeeds. The allegations are intense; the pushback is immediate. With Combs a few weeks into a 50-month sentence and his lawyers firing off letters, the question is whether he addresses any of this publicly beyond the legal filings, or whether this show sets the baseline for how his legacy gets discussed for a long time.

Streaming info: 'Sean Combs: The Reckoning' is streaming exclusively on Netflix.