by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 7 –In the days before he got arrested, Sean Combs paid a videographer to film him biking around Manhattan - and yelling at his lawyer Marc Agnifilo from his hotel room, walking with Agnifilo in Central Park, planning by an elevator until turning off the camera.
Too late - the footage is in Netflix's four part Sean Combs: The Reckoning.
It comes off different now, with Agnifilo representing Luigi Mangione, and in the Alexander brothers' sex trafficking case. Are they yelling at him too? What about Roger Ng, convicted in the Jho Lo / 1MDB case and who just lost his appeal? Word Agnifilo may have a conflict on December 8.
In the Reckoning, Lil Rod Jones speaks of being drugs and not paid; Aubry O'Day says she can't remember. The story reached back to Combs' father getting shot, his mother driving around making stops (drops?) in Harlem. Alpo Martinez is shown as a role model. Clayton Howard speaks of years of appointments, always on Biggie Day.
It ends, before a caption about 77 still pending civil cases, with Combs saying his movie will have a happy ending. Here's the series of trial books, and the first, Diddy Do It?
Two jurors appear - not the dubious UN / UNODC jury George, who claimed UNODC never works with US law enforcement in order to get on the jury - but dismissing Juror 75, and chatty 160.
On Juror 160, some readers have gone back and found Inner City Press' live thread of juror section and this from May 6, 2025:
Judge: 160, do you personally know any of the people on the list?
Juror 160 (female) I wish I did, but no. [laughs]
Juror 160: I once with my ex-boyfriend supported him in his child support case.
Judge: Parties, any questions? [No]
160: That was easy [She's in]
Some opined, She lied, like the UN juror...
These interviews, and the purloined just-pre-arrest video, make the documentary. Will a similar one by done on Luigi Mangione? The two groups of supporters, and thus audiences, are much different.
More on X for Subscribers here and on Substack here
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