Make the group was once one of the most popular MTV reality TV shows, but several former competitors have since made allegations against the producer Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The reality series was presented on ABC in 2000 before moving to MTV and promised to bring together a group at the end of each season. The show focused on training a specific group or act, in particular O-Town and Danity Kane. Start Make group 2Diddy was executive producer of the series.
Since the end of the program in 2009, Danity Kane members ABREY O’Day And Dawn Richards spoke of the alleged treatment they were confronted with by working for Diddy. The music magnate was arrested in September 2024 and accused of sexual traffic, racketeering and transport to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty of all accusations.
In February 2025, Sara Riverswho appeared on Make group 2 As a member of DA Band, filed a complaint against Diddy accusing him of sexual harassment. Diddy’s lawyers qualified the claims of “false” in a statement, adding: “Mr. Combs remains confident that he will prevail before the court. »»
Since Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in September 2024, several documentaries – two in total in January 2025 – detailed the allegations against the rapper. The first, Peacock’s Diddy: The Making of A Bad Boy, began to broadcast on January 14. The 90 -minute film included interviews with Mogul Childhood Friends and former employees […]
Continue to scroll for a ventilation of all the allegations against Diddy of the old Make the group Stars:
ABREY O’Day
In September 2024, O’Day (member of Danity Kane from 2006 to 2007) stated that Diddy tried to dictate her appearance while she was in the group. “With Diddy, I saw several sides of him but I don’t know who I was talking about who was sober. There was always an element of something that was going on, “she told Renee Graziano during an interview on the podcast” Crysis Queen “.
“He is in front of the camera telling me how much he hates, but he is out of camera telling me all the ways I needed to be treated properly, to my nails,” she continued. “I was sent from a studio session once because my toes were not correctly polite.”
In an interview with a different podcast the same month, O’Day thought about Danity Kane’s dismissal in 2008. “I was so young and so much put on me,” she said during an appearance on the “Off The Vine” podcast by Kaitlyn Bristowe. “I was dismissed on national television to be too scorching and promiscuity. It is actually like an unjustified termination. It is a trial against many people. »»
Sara Rivers
In a trial brought in February 2025 and examined by US WeeklyRivers, who was in the program from 2002 to 2004, said that Diddy and submitting the group’s staff submitted her, she and others, to “inhuman” treatment, including control when and how she slept and make fun of her to suffer from bulimia.
Rivers also said that Diddy had sexually assaulted her while she was walking in a corridor, alleging that he was standing so close that “he could kiss her and ask her in a low and sensual voice how she is fine, if she is fine and if she needed something.”
She also said that Diddy “then used her left hand to adapt [the] Col of her jacket, then passed her left hand over her breasts while repeating the sentence if she needs something to let him know. “”
Diddy denied rivers complaints in a statement Wesaying, To say to the point of sale: “This is another example of false allegations deposited against Mr. Combross. Regardless of the number of legal proceedings, this will not change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or his sexual milking – man or woman, adult or minor. We live in a world where anyone can take legal action for any reason. With the deadline of the law on violence motivated by the sexes of New York which expires tomorrow, it is clear that the opportunists rush to file last minute and without merit statements. Mr. Combs remains confident that he will prevail before the court. »»
In January 2025, Diddy filed a complaint against Rivers lawyer Ariel Mitchell, accusing him of defamation in an appearance of the newspaper. He accused Mitchell and other accused of “fueling media frenzy, making bizarre affirmations and arouse baseless speculation” on the sexual cassettes that would have involved and other nameless celebrities.
Rivers spoke of his former boss for the first time in the PAON documentary in January 2025 Diddy: the manufacture of a bad boy. “When he got angry with one of the members of my group, he said,” You’re going so crazy that I want to eat your flesh, “she said in the film. “And then he said to another members of my group:” You roll your eyes. I could pick up a crackhead and pay them $ 20 to slam the S – out of you. Who said that? It’s crazy.
In response to the documentary, Diddy’s representatives said We In a press release: “This documentary recycles and perpetuates the same lies and conspiracy theories that have been reduced against Mr. Combs for months. It is disappointing to see NBC and Peacock roll in the same mud as contrary tabloid journalists. By providing a platform for liar and proven opportunists to make false criminal accusations, the documentary is an irresponsible journalism of the worst nature. »»
D. Bois
In January 2025, Woods, member of Danity Kane from 2005 to 2008, claims at ABC News’ Eva Pilgrim That Combs promotes an emotionally and verbally abusive environment.
“He did it in different ways with all of us, you know, picking and pushing and just a way to chip and eliminate you, but to rent you,” she said on Good Morning America. “Someone constantly treats you as a piece of meat.”
Woods has also participated in survey discovery documents The fall of Diddywhich was created in January 2025. In an episode, she said that O’Day opened up to her on the behavior of Diddy who made her uncomfortable.
“I remember that she shared with me that he had sent her a lot of very inappropriate photos,” said Woods. “I saw a lot of things that he sent him an email, of a very sexual nature … Pornographic things that he wanted to do to him. She was just a bit like: “What should I do?” I remember saying to him, “Girl, put it in a file, send it to your mom, save it.” »»
A few weeks before the arrest of Sean “Diddy” Combs, Aubrey O’Day reflected on the recent “Big Shift” that his life had taken. “At the end of last year, when Cassie abandoned his trial, our whole life has changed forever,” said O’Day, 40, in a recent episode of the Podcast “Off the Vine”. “I mean, they changed forever at the time […]
Dawn Richard
Richard, also a member of Danity Kane, filed his own trial Against Diddy in September 2024. In the court documents obtained by US Weekly, Richard said he saw Diddy physically abuse his ex-girlfriend Cassie. She also allegedly alleged that he had forced Richard to repeat up to 48 hours at a time, which led to dehydration and fatigue.
Richard also said that Diddy burst into his closet and hit him inappropriately and, in a separate incident, locked him in a car for two hours.
In response to an allegedly witness testimony of Diddy Choke Cassie, Richard and his Diddy – group comrade Dirty Money Kalena Harper tried to convince her to leave the relationship. After Diddy discovered it, he would have said to them, “You don’t arrive in the sluts in my relationship. Don’t say my female dog [Cassie] What she needs to do. Just make money and close the F— Up. I finish the artists, I put careers. You might miss you. You, the sluts, want to die today.
Diddy denied Richard’s allegations in a press release via his lawyer Erica Wolff, who said to us: “Mr. Combs is shocked and disappointed by this trial. In an attempt to rewrite the story, Dawn Richard has now made a series of false affirmations in the hope of trying to get a salary – conveniently timed to coincide with his album release and his press tour. “”
John Doe
In October 2024, lawyer Tony Buzbee has filed a legal action Against Diddy alleging that the rapper had attacked a 17-year-old who interviewed for having made the group in 2008. The victim said he had undergone three hearings for the show and said that each Diddy had told him to perform sexual acts on himself and on his bodyguard, called “T.” The acts would have been intended to test how much the boy wanted to become a singer. The victim was also finally eliminated from the competition.
In response to the trial, a representative of Diddy said We“The lawyer behind this trial is interested in the attention of the media rather than the truth, as is obvious of his constant press appearances and from number 1 to 800. As we said previously, Mr. Combras cannot respond to each new advertising stroke, even in response to affirmations which are entirely ridiculous or obviously false. »»
If you or someone you know have been sexually assaulted, contact the National Hotline of Sexual Assault at 1-800-656-Hope (4673).
