Doing the band It was once one of MTV’s most popular reality shows, but several former contestants have leveled allegations against the producer Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The reality series premiered in ABC in 2000 before moving to MTV and promised to put a band at the end of each season. The show focused on the formation of a specific band or event, including O-Town and Danity Kane. Starting with Doing the band 2Diddy acted as executive producer of the series.
Since the end of the program in 2009, members of Danity Kane included Aubrey O’Day and Dawn Richards They talked about the alleged treatment they faced as they worked for Diddy. The musical tycoon was arrested in September 2024 and accused of sex, grouping and transportation to participate in prostitution. Did not say guilty of all charges.
In February 2025, Sara Riversthat appeared Doing the band 2 As a member of the Da Band, he filed a lawsuit against Diddy accusing him of sexual harassment. Diddy’s lawyers called the “false” statements in a statement, adding: “Mr. Combs continues to trust that it will prevail in court.”
Since Sean “Diddy” Combs has been arrested in September 2024, several documentaries, two in January 2025, have detailed the complaints against the rapper. The first, Peacock’s Diddy: The making of a Boy, began transmitting on January 14. The 90 -minute film included interviews with the child’s childhood friends and the old employees (…)
Continue to shift -you go through a breakdown of all complaints against Diddy of the first Doing the band Stars:
Aubrey O’Day
In September 2024, O’Day (2006-2007 Danity Kane member) he stated that Diddy sought to dictate his appearance as he was on the band. “With Diddy, I saw several faces of him, but I don’t know who he was ever talking about.
“It’s on the camera that tells me how much I hate it, but it is out of the camera that tells me all the ways I needed to be prepared correctly, to my nails,” he continued. “I was once sent a study session because my toes were not polished properly.”
In a different podcast interview that same month, O’Day reflected on being fired by Danity Kane in 2008. “I was so young and they put me so many things,” he said, during an appearance at the “Off the Vine” podcast by Kaitlyn Bristowe. “I was fired on national television to be too unpleasant and promiscuous. It is actually like illicit termination. This is a demand against many people.”
Sara Rivers
In a lawsuit filed in February 2025 and reviewed by Use weeklyRivers, who was in the program from 2002 to 2004, said that Diddy and that the band’s staff submitted to others to “inhuman” treatment, including control of when and how he slept and mocked it to suffer bulimia.
Rivers also stated that Diddy sexually assaulted her as she walked around a hallway, claiming that she was so close that she could “kiss her and ask her with a low and sensual voice as she is doing, if she is well and if she needed something.”
He also stated that Diddy later “used his left hand to adjust -the collet of his jacket and then passed his left hand through the breasts while repeating the sentence if he needs something to do it.”
Diddy denied Rivers’s claims in a statement to Ussaying, Saying -at the exit: “This is another example of false claims against Mr. Combs. No matter how many demands are presented, it will not change the fact that Mr. Combs has never assaulted or sexual traffic to anyone: man or woman, adult or minor. We live in a world where anyone can file a demand for any reason. With the term for the law of Violence of Violence, which is clear by the Violence of Violence, Opportunist are to file last -minute merit claims.
In January 2025, Diddy filed a lawsuit against Rivers’s lawyer Ariel Mitchell, accusing him of slander in a newspaper appearance. He accused Mitchell and other accused of “feeding a media frenzy, making extravagant claims, and agitating non -foundation speculations” on sex tapes that allegedly involved him and other unnamed celebrities.
Rivers talked about his former head for the first time in the Peacock documentary January 2025 Diddy: the manufacture of a bad guy. “When he got angry with one of the members of my band, he said,” You make me so crazy that I want to eat your flesh, “he claimed to the movie.” And then he told another of the members of my band: “You’re rolling eyes. I could go for a crackhead and pay -20 $ 20 to do them out of you. Whoever says it is crazy.”
In response to the documentary, Diddy’s representatives said Us In a statement: “ This documentary recycles and perpetuates the same lies and conspiracy theories that have been fallen against Mr. Combs for months.It is disappointing to see NBC and Peacock rolling in the same mud as journalists of unathent tabloids. By providing a platform for liars and tested opportunists for false criminal accusations, the documentary is an irresponsible journalism of the worst type.
D. WOODS
In January 2025, Woods, a member of Danity Kane from 2005 to 2008, alleged to ABC News’ Eva Pilgrim This encouraged an environment that was emotionally and verbally abusive.
“He did so in different ways with all of us, you know, choosing and producing, and only one way to crush and get out, but then praise -,” said Good Morning America. “Someone constantly treats you like a piece of meat.”
Woods also participated in Docuseries of Discovery of Research Diddy’s fallthat was released in January 2025. In an episode, he stated that O’Day opened on Diddy’s behavior that was uncomfortable.
“I remember sharing with me that he had sent him many very inappropriate images,” Woods claimed. “I saw a lot of things I would send to her by email, very sexual in nature … pornographic things I wanted to do. She was just like:” What do I do? “I remember,” Girl, put it in a folder, send it to your mother, keep it. “
Weeks before Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest, Aubrey O’Day reflected on the recent “great change” that had taken his life. “At the end of last year, when Cassie abandoned his demand, all our lives changed forever,” said O’Day, 40, in a recent episode of the “Off the Vine” podcast. “I mean, they changed forever (…)
Dawn Richard
Richard, also a member of Danity Kane, filed his own demand Against Diddy in September 2024. In the court documents obtained by US Weekly, Richard stated that he saw Diddy physically abuse his ex -partner Cassie. He also claimed that he forced Richard to rehearse up to 48 hours at a time, which was a dehydration and fatigue.
Richard also stated that Diddy burst into the locker room and touched him inappropriately and, in a separate incident, locked him in a car for two hours.
In response to allegedly presenting Diddy Shop Cassie, Richard and his Diddy – Dirty Money Band, Kaleena Harper, tried to convince her to abandon the relationship. After Diddy found out, he allegedly said to them, “All dogs do not fall into my relationship. Don’t tell my bitch (Cassie) what you need to do. You just have to make money and close the f. I finish the artists, I put myself in the races. You could miss the bowling. You want to die today.”
Diddy denied Richard’s allegations in a statement through his lawyer Erica Wolff, who said, “Mr. Combs is shocked and disappointed in this demand. In an attempt to rewrite the story, Dawn Richard has now manufactured a series of false claims in the hope of trying to get a day of payment, conveniently scheduled to coincide with its launch of the launch and the Press. “
John Doe
In October 2024, lawyer Tony Buzbee filed a lawsuit Against Diddy claiming that the rapper assaulted a 17 -year -old who made a hearing to make the band in 2008. The victim said he went through three auditions for the program, saying that each Diddy told him to perform sexual acts on himself and his bodyguard, called “T.” It is assumed that the events were designated to try the evil that the boy wanted to become a singer. The victim was also eliminated from the competition.
In response to demand, said a Diddy representative Us“The lawyer of this demand is interested in the attention of the media instead of the truth, such as its constant press appearances and number 1-800. As we said before, Mr. Combs cannot respond to all new advertising acrobatics, even in response to claims that are ridiculous or demonstrably false.”
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