A journalist who says Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs made death threats toward her – over approval of photos for a magazine spread – speaks in extended detail over the alleged exchange in a forthcoming docuseries titled The Fall of Diddy.
Danyel Smith, the one-time editor-in-chief of Vibe magazine, said Combs, 55, vowed he would see her ‘dead in a trunk’ if she didn’t show him, in advance, images of him for a story in the publication.
‘After the shoot, Mr. Combs wanted to see the covers before they were published,’ Smith said in an excerpt from the forthcoming docuseries. ‘It was policy for us not to show the covers to anyone before they were published.’
Smith said in the broadcast that Combs telephoned her to complain, at which time he made the death threats: ‘I told him that I wouldn’t be making an exception and he said that he would see me dead in a trunk if I did not show it to him.’
Combs has past denied Smith’s allegations, and has pleaded not guilty to sëx trafficking charges after his September arrest.
He has remained incarcerated awaiting a May 5 trial, after he was refused bail on multiple occasions.
Smith said she told Diddy he needed ‘to take that back,’ to which he said ‘he wasn’t taking s*** back,’ at which point she enlisted her lawyer.
‘My attorney called him to say that if he didn’t immediately fax over an apology, my attorney was going to reach out to law enforcement,’ Smith said. ‘It took about 90 minutes to two hours and I received that faxed apology.’
