Setting up the group Once one of the most popular MTV reality shows, but since then several ex -competitors have leveled the accusations against the producer Sean “Didi” combsS
The reality series premiered ABC in 2000 before moving to MTV and promised to gather a group at the end of each season. The show focuses on forming a specific tape or act, including O-Town and Danity kaneS By starting with The Group 2Didy serves as an executive producer in the series.
As the show ended in 2009, members of Danity Kane, including O’DE and Dawn Richards have talked about the alleged treatment they encounter while working for Didi. The music tycoon was arrested in September 2024 and charged with sexual traffic, racketeering and transport to join prostitution. He admitted that he was not guilty of all charges.
In February 2025, Sarah Riversappearing The Group 2 As a member of DA Band, he filed a case against Didi, accusing him of sexual harassment. Didy’s lawyers called the allegations “false” in a statement and added “Mr. Combs remains confident that it will prevail in court. “
As Sean Didi Combs was arrested in September 2024, numerous documentaries – a total of two from January 2025 – described the accusations against the rapper in detail. The first, PEACOCK’s Diddy: Creating a bad boy began to stream on January 14th. The 90-minute movie included interviews with the childhood friends of magnets and former employees (…)
Continue to scroll for a breakdown of all claims against Didy from the ex Setting up the group Stars:
O’DE
In September 2024 O’day (Member of Danity Kane from 2006-2007) claim this Didy tried to dictate her appearance while in the group. “I saw many sides of it with Didi, but I don’t know who I had ever said he was sober with. There was always an element of something, she told Rene Graziano during an interview with the Crisis Queen’s podcast.
“He is on a camera that tells me how much he hates him, but he is out of the camera, which tells me all the ways I need to be maintained properly, next to my nails,” she continued. “I was sent from a studio session once because my toes were not polished correctly.”
In a different interview with a pod that the same month, O’day thought about being fired by Danity Kane in 2008. “I was so young and so many things were put on me,” she said during the appearance of Kaitlyn Bristowe’s infusion “Off the Vine.” “I was fired on national television for being too sensible and indiscriminate. It’s actually like an unlawful termination. This is a case against many people. “
Sarah Rivers
In a case brought in February 2025 and reviewed by US WeeklyRivers, who was on the show from 2002 to 2004, claims that Didi and the group staff to subjected her and others to “inhuman” treatment, including control when and how she slept and mocks her for bullima suffering.
Rivers also claims that Didy had sexually attacked her while she walked down the corridor, claiming that she was so close that “he can kiss her and ask her in a low, sensual voice how she is doing, if she is well and if she needs something at all.”
She also claims that Deidi “uses her left hand to adjust () the collar of her jacket and then run her left hand through her chest as she repeats the phrase if she needs something to let him know.”
Didi denied Rivers’ claims in a statement to USAsaying, saying Saying the output: “This is another example of false claims that are filed against G -N -Combs. No matter how many lawsuits they have been brought, this will not change the fact that G -N -Combs has never visited the sexual benefit or sex trafficking of anyone – a man or a woman, an adult or a minor. We live in a world where anyone can bring a case for some reason. With the deadline for the expired violence law, motivated by gender in New York tomorrow, it is clear that opportunists are in a hurry to file the last, deserved claims. D, Kombs remains confident that he will prevail in court. “
In January 2025, Didi filed a lawsuit against Rivers Ariel Mitchell’s lawyer, accusing her of slander. He accused Mitchell and other defendants of “nourishing the media rage, making foreign claims and rebellious speculation” about sex strips that were allegedly involved in it and other unnamed celebrities.
Rivers spoke about his former boss for the first time in the January 2025 documentary. Didi: Creating a bad boyS “When he was angry with one of my group members, he said,” You make me so crazy that I want to eat your flesh, “she said in the movie. “And then he told another of the members of my group,” You turn your eyes. I could go to get a crack and pay them $ 20 to get S – you. Who says that? This is crazy. “
In response to the documentary, the representatives of Didi said USA In a statement: “This documentary recycling and perpetuates the same lies and conspiracy theories that have been weaned against G -N -Combs for months. It is disappointing to see how NBC and Peacock roll in the same mud as unethical tabloid reporters. By providing a platform for proven liars and opportunists to make false criminal accusations, the documentary is irresponsible journalism of the highest form. “
D. Woods
In January 2025, Woods, a member of Daniti Kane from 2005 to 2008, claims to ABC News’ Eva Pilgrim This rowing encouraged an environment that was emotional and verbal violence.
“He did it in different ways with all of us, you know, choose and explode and just a way to chip and knock, but then praise you,” she explained at Good Morning America. “Someone constantly treats you like a piece of meat.”
Woods also participates in the investigation documentation Didy’s fallWho premiered in January 2025 in an episode, she claims that O’day had opened for her for Didy’s behavior, which made her uncomfortable.
“I remember sharing with me that he sent her many many inappropriate photos,” Woods said. “I saw many things that he would send her email, very sexual in nature … Pornographic things he wanted to do to her. She was just like, “What should I do?” I remember told her, “Girl, put it in a folder, send it to your mother, besides.”
Weeks before Sean’s arrest of Didi Combs, O’Di has affected the recent “big shift” that her life had taken. “At the end of last year, when Cassie refused her work, our whole life changed forever,” says the 40 -year -old O’DE in a recent episode of the off -the -vine podcast. “I mean they changed forever (…) then
Dawn Richard
Richard, also a member of Danity Kane, brought his own trial Against Didi in September 2024, in court documents received from US Weekly, Richard claims to have seen Didi physically abuse her ex -girlfriend Cassie. She also claims that he forced Richard to rehearse up to 48 hours at a time, leading to dehydration and fatigue.
Richard also claims that Didi once invaded her dressing room and touched her in an inappropriate manner and locked her in a car for two hours in a separate incident.
In response to witnessing a witness to Diddy Choce Cassie, Richard and her DIDDY group – Dirty Money Kaleena Harper tried to persuade her to leave the relationship. After Didi realized, he claims that he told them, “All bitches do not enter my relationship. Don’t tell my bitch (casie) what he should do. Just make money and close F – up. I steal artists, postpone career. You may miss you. You bitches want to die today. “
Didi denied Richard’s allegations in a statement through her lawyer Erika Wolf, who told us: “Mr. Combs is shocked and disappointed with this case. In an attempt to rewrite the story, Dawn Richard has already produced a series of fake statements, everyone hoping to try to get a payment day – convenient to match her album and the press. “
John doe
In October 2024, lawyer Tony Buzby brought a case Deidi, who claims that the rapper attacked a 17-year-old, who listened to the fact that he had made the group in 2008. It is supposed that the acts were intended to check how bad the boy wanted to become a singer. The victim was eventually eliminated from the race.
In response to the trial, a representative of Didi said USA“The lawyer behind this case is interested in media attention, not the truth, as obviously in his constant press appearances and number 1-800. As we have already said, G -N -Combs cannot respond to every new stuntman for publicity, even in response to claims that are ridiculous or demonstratively false. “
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