As we wait for Sean “Diddy” Combs’s federal sex trafficking trial in May — at which his legal team will mount his defense and he’ll have the opportunity to testify on his behalf, if he chooses — the allegations against him are being explored in multiple documentaries.

Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, premiering Jan. 14 on Peacock, is the newest and looks at the Bad Boy Records founder’s rise and fall. The documentary revisits his early years and transformation into rapper and producer “Puffy” and then later “Diddy” with insights from people who knew him along the way. Singer Al B. Sure! — who shared an ex, Kim Porter, with Combs and has been publicly critical of him — gives his first interview. There’s also never-before-seen footage of Combs partying, at home and in the studio.

Combs’s so-called partying is at the center of the criminal case against him. Federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York claim Combs “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires” in what Combs called “freak offs,” or days-long sex sessions. He’s accused of coercing women to participate, giving them drugs to keep them obedient, involving male sex workers and secretly filming them to ensure the “silence of the victims.” After the “freak offs,” the victims allegedly received IV fluids to recover from the physical exertion and drug use, according to the indictment.

Combs has repeatedly denied the allegations against him, also including racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. He’s also facing dozens of civil lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct, the latest filed Jan. 13 by a Jane Doe accuser who alleges he drugged and sexually assaulted her when she was a 16-year-old walking home from a babysitting job in Manhattan in 2000. He has denied Doe’s claims as well.

Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy is one of multiple documentaries examining the claims against Combs. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who has been critical of Combs for a decade, also has a project in the works with Netflix, and there are others. Here’s a guide to them all.

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Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy

• Release date: Jan. 14

• Where to watch: Peacock

What’s it about? Combs’s early years, growing up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., are examined in the 90-minute doc, with childhood friends giving insight into who he was before becoming a hip-hop player. Those who knew him later — including employees, a bodyguard and a makeup artist — reveal what they saw and heard. Al B. Sure, who was in a relationship with Porter, who died in 2018, before Combs was, speaks out as well. Producer Ari Mark said they tried to give the documentary a “more victim-forward approach.”

Biggest revelations: Ashley Parham, who is suing Combs, claimed he raped her with a TV remote. Combs’s lawyer denied he “was ever even in the same room as” her.

Sure referred to Porter’s death as a “murder,” adding, “Am I supposed to say ‘allegedly'?” Porter died from lobar pneumonia, and the Los Angeles Police Department “stated they had no suspicion of foul play.” Da Band’s Sara Rivers’s claimed Combs inappropriately touched her and verbally abused her. An anonymous former Combs employee claimed he sent him out to find girls to bring home for him and alleged that he saw Combs have sex with minors. Combs’s childhood friend Tim Patterson talked about Combs’s mom, Janice, throwing wild parties when they were kids and said that could have been “desensitizing” to Combs, who was around drugs, alcohol and sex, as well as addicts, pimps and pushers.

Who else is in it? Lawyers Lisa Bloom and Ariel Mitchell, who represent accusers.

TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy; TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy 2: The Indictment; TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy 3: Inside the Freak-offs

• Release dates: April 30, 2024, Sept. 27, 2024, and Nov. 12, 2024

• Where to watch: Tubi

What are they about? The team behind the celebrity website did three different deep dives into the Combs headlines, first when the FBI raided the star’s homes, again when Combs was indicted and a third time to examine the alleged “freak offs.”

Biggest revelations: Combs’s attorney Marc Agnifilo spoke out on behalf of the incarcerated star. He claimed Combs’s former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, whose explosive allegations against Combs started the federal investigation into Combs, was a willing participant in the “freak offs.” He claimed the 1,000 bottles of lubricant seized at Combs’s home by feds were just a “bulk” purchase at Costco. He also claimed the charges against Combs was a “takedown of a successful Black man.” A woman who attended a “freak off” also spoke out.

Who else is in it? Performer Ray J, who knows Combs; Tony Buzbee, who is representing the woman suing Combs and Jay-Z for rape (which they both deny); Danity Kane’s Aubrey O'Day; and Suge Knight, among others.

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The Fall of Diddy

• Release date: The four-part docuseries will premiere over two nights starting Jan. 27

• Where to watch : Investigation Discovery (ID), Max

What’s it about? The producers behind Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV in partnership with Rolling Stone dig into the allegations through more than 30 new interviews with Combs’s accusers, former friends and employees. Producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who is suing Combs for sexual assault and harassment, and Thalia Graves, who alleged in a lawsuit against Combs that he violently raped her in 2001, speak out. D. Woods from Danity Kane, the group Combs put together on his MTV reality competition Making the Band, is also in it. (Fellow group member Dawn Richard is suing Combs for sexual abuse.)

Biggest revelations: The doc claims to include “accounts from new voices yet to be announced, including those coming forward for the first time with deeply disturbing accounts of their encounters with Combs.” Similar to the Peacock doc, this project boasts never-before-seen archival footage of Combs.

Who else is in it? Natania Griffin, who claims Combs, not Jamal “Shyne” Barrows, shot her in the infamous 1999 nightclub shooting and former Vibe and Billboard editor-in-chief Danyel Smith.

Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson’s untitled docuseries

• Where to watch: Netflix will stream the project, which is currently in production.

What’s it about? Jackson, who initially referred to the project as “Diddy Do It,” is executive producing the docuseries through his G-Unit Film & Television production company, and Alexandria Stapleton is directing. After Combs’s arrest in September, they said in a statement they promise to “give a voice to the voiceless and to present authentic and nuanced perspectives,” and proceeds will go to alleged victims. It will also look at how Combs’s problems are not a reflection of hip-hop culture as a whole.

Biggest revelations: Jackson has been an outspoken critic of Combs, telling the Hollywood Reporter in July, “I’ve been very vocal about not going to Puffy parties and doing shit like that.” He said the 2016 surveillance video of Combs hitting Ventura, surfaced by CNN in May, ruined Combs’s credibility. “First, he denied that it even happened, and then the tape comes out — so that means everything [he] says is a lie. When someone watches that, if they have a daughter and they can imagine her being under those circumstances, that shit is crazy. Like, they let him get away with it.”

Who else is in it? We’ll see when the first trailer drops.