Wayne Barrow is disputing a key allegation circulating after the release of the Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning, produced by 50 Cent and featuring several accusations involving Sean “Diddy” Combs and the late Notorious B.I.G.
Barrow, who helped oversee Biggie’s estate alongside the rapper’s mother, Voletta Wallace, told Loren Lorosa of The Breakfast Club that claims suggesting Diddy used Biggie’s own money to pay for his 1997 funeral are inaccurate.
The allegation was raised in the documentary by former Bad Boy executive Kirk Burrowes.
“Sean said, ‘We’re gonna do the biggest funeral for Biggie that New York has ever seen,’” Burrowes said. “We start to put that together, he starts to see the price. He says, ‘We’re gonna do the biggest funeral, but Biggie’s gonna have to pay for this funeral.’”
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“He was gonna make the funeral be a recoupable charge to Biggie in death,” he continued. “Sean doing a big show looks good on him. But he’s not gonna tell the world that Biggie was gonna pay for it.”
Barrow noted that he officiated the funeral and worked directly with Burrowes on arrangements, and that at no point did funds belonging to Biggie cover the costs.
According to Barrow, the funeral bill was handled entirely by Diddy and Bad Boy Records. He said that, through the years, every royalty statement sent to Biggie’s estate was closely reviewed by him and Wallace, and none showed funeral charges deducted from the artist’s earnings. Barrow also added that there were no disagreements over Biggie’s contracts at the time of his death, countering another suggestion raised in the documentary.