A reality series featuring Sean “Diddy” Combs that was in early stages at Hulu has been scrapped, The Music news has learned.
Production company Fulwell 73 was behind the project that would have focused on the music mogul’s family life. This follows four suits having been filed against Combs since November, with three of them coming prior to the deadline to bring a claim under New York’s Adult Survivors Act. Combs has denied the allegations.
A complaint was filed in New York federal court last week by a woman suing as Jane Doe who alleged that the rapper and former Bad Boy Entertainment president Harve Pierre raped her in 2003 when she was 17 years old.
The three previous suits were filed in November, including one from Joi Dickerson-Neal, who appeared in one of the star’s music videos and claimed that he drugged and raped her when she was attending Syracuse University in 1991. Another suit from a woman suing as a Jane Doe accused him and singer Aaron Hall of sexually assaulting her and a friend.
These lawsuits came less than a week after Combs settled a suit filed by singer Cassie, who had accused him of raping and physically abusing her for close to a decade.
A number of other prominent Hollywood figures were sued prior to last month’s deadline for the New York law that had revived for one year the window to bring sexual misconduct claims. Among the entertainers sued were Jamie Foxx, Axl Rose and Cuba Gooding Jr.
Combs, who stepped down as chairman of hip-hop TV network Revolt late last month, denied the accusations in a statement posted to social media. “I did not do any of the awful things being alleged,” he said in the statement.
More to come.
