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Diddy claims Lil Rod stole private documentary footage and sold it into 50 Cent’s blockbuster Netflix series about the jailed mogul.
The explosive allegation anchors Diddy’s newly filed counterclaims against Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones in their ongoing battle in Manhattan federal court.
Diddy’s filing identifies Netflix, West Tower Road LLC and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson collectively, but says Jones sold footage to them “and/or” one another.
That wording stops short of establishing that 50 personally purchased anything, and no court has decided who legally owned the material.
“Years later it was revealed that, in addition to fabricating outlandish claims, Mr. Jones exploited Mr. Combs’s trust by stealing computer drives that contained footage owned by Mr. Combs and intended for use by Mr. Combs in a documentary about his life. Mr. Jones accessed those drives without authorization, copied the footage contained on them without authorization, and sold the stolen footage to Netflix, Inc., West Tower Road, LLC, and/or Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson,” the counterclaims allege.
The filing claims Jones waited until a videographer left his workstation, removed external drives and concealed them throughout the trip.
The four-part Sean Combs: The Reckoning premiered December 2, 2025, with 50 serving as an executive producer alongside director Alexandria Stapleton.
Episode 4 tells viewers that Lil Rod supplied footage covering his 13 months around Diddy, whose filing alleges Jones misrepresented his ownership.
Lil Rod appears during the fourth episode while clips from his 13 months working around Diddy accompany roughly 20 minutes of his interview.
“The Stolen Footage played a prominent role in the Competing Documentary. Mr. Jones’s interview spans roughly 20 minutes of Episode 4, with the Stolen Footage playing prominently with Mr. Jones’s interview playing in the background,” the filing claims.
Netflix and Stapleton have maintained that the production obtained its footage legally while refusing to identify the confidential filmmaker who supplied separate pre-arrest material.
“It came to us, we obtained the footage legally and have the necessary rights,” Stapleton told Netflix before the series arrived.
The documentary became a major Netflix success, with 21.8 million views and a second-place ranking during the December 1-7 measurement period.
Diddy now wants damages, the computer drives returned and every retained copy destroyed, with the amount potentially determined at a jury trial.
