Peloton ‘paused the usage of’ Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ music on its platform

NEW YORK — Peloton mentioned it has paused the usage of music recorded by Sean “Diddy” Combs on its exercise class platform in response to a member of a personal Fb group for Peloton customers.

Within the remark posted on Monday, the corporate mentioned it additionally eliminated the Dangerous Boy Leisure Artist Sequence, a line of courses and exercises utilizing music from a document label based by Combs, on its platform.

It didn’t point out that it was eradicating music from previous courses.

“This implies our instructors are not utilizing his music in any newly produced courses,” Peloton mentioned within the publish.

CNN has reached out to Peloton for additional remark.

On Friday, CNN printed lodge surveillance video from 2016 during which Combs appeared to seize, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend — Cassie Ventura.

“My habits on that video is inexcusable. I take full duty for my actions in that video,” Combs mentioned in a video assertion posted on Instagram on Sunday.

Combs had beforehand issued a blanket denial of the allegations contained in a lawsuit filed by Ventura final November, during which she accused him of rape and years of abuse.

Since then, Combs has confronted 4 different civil lawsuits accusing him of a variety of sexual misconduct and different criminality. A type of instances has already been settled, however the different instances stay energetic.

In 2022, Peloton mentioned it “indefinitely paused” taking part in Kanye West’s music from its streaming exercise courses after he made antisemitic feedback.

Pelo Buddy, a fan web site that does not have official ties with Peloton, reported in 2022 that the corporate instructed involved members that its instructors had been not utilizing West’s music in “newly produced courses” and it wasn’t recommending beforehand produced exercise courses on its {hardware} or app that makes use of his music.

Contributing: Jordan Valinsky, Alli Rosenbloom and Elizabeth Wagmeister