Aubrey O’Day claims Diddy tried to buy her silence with publishing rights

Aubrey O’Day claims that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs attempted to buy her silence last year by offering publishing rights to Bad Boy Records artists. “I received the publishing deal. I know what it says. I know how much money it was giving me,” the former Danity Kane singer stated in a sneak peek of a forthcoming TMZ documentary, TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy.

However, O’Day chose not to sign the agreement. She said that she was going to be paid $300.30 for “a full release against all claims against Diddy and many other players.”

When asked by host Harvey Levin what she thought prompted Diddy to give up the rights, she replied, “I think you would probably be making moves to keep as many people quiet as possible.”

O’Day further stated that it would never again have made her financially whole. “It asked me specifically to stay silent and never speak poorly about a human. So then I realized, something really bad is coming,” she stated.

A source close to the situation informed 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.”