Aubrey O’Day Accuses Diddy Of Trying To Buy Her Silence With Ridiculously Low Publishing Payout
Danity Kane’s Aubrey O’Day is, once again, spilling the tea on former boss, Diddy. In an explosive new documentary from TMZ, O’Day claims that the Bad Boy Records founder tried to buy her silence when he offered to give his former artists their publishing rights.
“I received the publishing deal. I know what it says. I know how much money it was giving me,” said O’Day in TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy. Though she did not sign the deal, she alleged that it offered her only $300.30 for “a full release against all claims against Diddy and many other players.”
She noted, “I think you would probably be making moves to keep as many people quiet as possible. When looking at the publishing deal, it said anything but that it would make me whole financially. In fact, it asked me to not have access to my experience and my story anymore […] Then, I realized something really bad is coming.”
In regards to why some are questioning how O’Day is even able to speak on the matter, a source told Page Six, “Aubrey O’Day got her big break because Diddy and Bad Boy cast her in their show with her group, Danity Kane. Last year, when he reassigned his portion of the publishing to Bad Boy artists, an unprecedented move within the industry and which he did not have to do, not all artists signed an NDA.”
When discussing his decision to reverse the publishing rights, Diddy told Variety, “It’s just doing the right thing. I think that we as an industry, and as a people, have to look in the mirror and make a shift forward. It’s about evolving, leading by example and reforming an industry that needs it, in a world that needs reform.”
Even back then, O’Day felt that the deal was an attempt to buy her silence prior to Cassie’s lawsuit and the subsequent domino effect.
“I have to release him for any claims or wrongdoings or actions prior to the date of the release,” detailed O’Day when speaking on the deal in a September 2023 interview. “I have to sign an NDA that I will never disparage Puff, Bad Boy, Janice Combs, Justin Combs Music, EMI, or Sony ever in public.”
She also revealed that only two out of the five Danity Kane members didn’t sign.
“At the end of the day, we’re all just willing to turn a blind eye,” O’Day continued. “Diddy is just literally known as a guy that doesn’t pay his artists, and it’s funny and then you move on and you like something that he did on TikTok ’cause he’s funny. But for people that worked for six years of their life and entered an industry where somebody made, what, 48 million dollars and we didn’t even see a penny of that? We were in thongs and five-inch heels for years of our lives on stage, and not any of it did we see.”
The Downfall of Diddy is currently streaming on Tubi.
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