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Diddy Auditioned to Play James Brown in ‘Get on Up,’ Lost Part to Chadwick Boseman


Sean 'Diddy' Combs auditioned to play James Brown in the biopic 'Get on Up,' a witness in his trial revealed. He lost the part to Chadwick Boseman.

Sean “Diddy” Combs auditioned to play James Brown in the 2014 Universal biopic “Get on Up,” it was revealed in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial. One story involved Mick Jagger apparently hitting on Mia, and another described a high-stakes poker game between Combs and Leonardo DiCaprio. Mia said she suffers from “severe PTSD” from her time working for Combs, and that the alleged rape is “the worst and most shameful thing that’s ever happened to me.”

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