“Full of lies”: P Diddy’s son King hits back at Biggie Smalls funeral costs drama in new documentary
One of P Diddy’s sons, Christian Combs, best known as King, has hit back at one of the many allegations featured in the new 50 Cent-produced docuseries, Sean Combs: The Reckoning.
Viewers of the four-parter will be aware that the deaths of hip hop legends, Tupac and Biggie Smalls (also known as the Notorious B.I.G.) are a focal point – with some contributors alleging that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs may have played a part in both murders and/or has withheld relevant information about the killings from the authorities.
Diddy has always denied any rumours of that nature and has never been charged in relation to either of the killings.
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After Biggie Smalls, an artist signed to the Diddy co-founded record label Bad Boy, died in a drive-by shooting, Diddy released the smash hit single I’ll Be Missing You, featuring Biggie’s widow, Faith Evans, on vocals.
It became public knowledge that Diddy and Biggie were close friends, and the high-profile, expensive funeral service for the Notorious B.I.G. dominated the streets of New York.
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Sean ’Diddy’ Combs poses with Christian ’King’ Combs at an MTV Awards ceremony in 2023
In Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Diddy’s Bad Boy co-founder, Kirk Burrowes, claims that Diddy wanted to charge the costs of the funeral back to Biggie Smalls’ estate, as opposed to paying for his friend’s memorial personally – despite being the person cited as having pushed for the service to be on such a grand scale.
Burrowes states, “Sean assumed the position of his [Biggie Smalls] best friend in every article and publication, and that wasn’t necessarily true. Sean said ‘We’re going to do the biggest funeral for Biggie that New York has ever seen’ and we start to put that together, he starts to see the price, and he says ‘We’re gonna do the biggest funeral, but Biggie is gonna have to pay for this funeral’.
“He was gonna make the funeral be a recuperable charge to Biggie in death. Sean doing a big show looks good on him, but he’s not going to tell the world that Biggie was gonna pay for it.”
Now, Diddy’s son King has clapped back at this via Instagram Stories by sharing a link to a PEOPLE article which quotes Biggie’s estate as saying: “The Netflix documentary is full of lies, Diddy paid for Biggie’s funeral with no reimbursement. He’s always done right by us.”
King added the caption “Capsters” to his re-post.
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Elsewhere, Biggie’s team have spoken out against Burrowes’ and the documentary’s allegations, branding them as “disrespectful”.
On 4 December, correspondent Loren Lorosa read aloud a statement on the radio show The Breakfast Club reportedly provided by Wayne Barrow, who co-managed Biggie’s estate with his mother Voletta Wallace (who died in February 2025).
Barrow denied allegations that Biggie’s estate paid for the funeral, stating that, to his knowledge, Diddy and Bad Boy Records paid for the arrangements in full. He also claimed to have reviewed royalty statements personally and found no evidence of funeral costs.
Barrow also added that the allegations could be seen as disrespectful to Biggie’s inner circle: “It’s disrespectful that anyone would even imply that Biggie’s mom and close friends would even be that naive to allow something like that to happen and not catch it.”
Cosmopolitan UK has reached out to Netflix for comment.
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Jennifer Savin is Cosmopolitan UK’s multiple award-winning Features Editor, who was crowned Digital Journalist of the Year for her work tackling the issues most important to young women. She regularly covers breaking news, cultural trends, health, the royals and more, using her esteemed connections to access the best experts along the way. She’s grilled everyone from high-profile politicians to A-list celebrities, and has sensitively interviewed hundreds of people about their real life stories. In addition to this, Jennifer is widely known for her own undercover investigations and campaign work, which includes successfully petitioning the government for change around topics like abortion rights and image-based sexual abuse. Jennifer is also a published author, documentary consultant (helping to create BBC’s Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?) and a patron for Y.E.S. (a youth services charity). Alongside Cosmopolitan, Jennifer has written for The Times, Women’s Health, ELLE and numerous other publications, appeared on podcasts, and spoken on (and hosted) panels for the Women of the World Festival, the University of Manchester and more. In her spare time, Jennifer is a big fan of lipstick, leopard print and over-ordering at dinner. Follow Jennifer on Instagram, X or LinkedIn.
