Where Is Kirk Burrowes Now? Inside the Bad Boy Co-Founder’s Life Today

When Kirk Burrowes and Sean “Diddy” Combs formed Bad Boy Entertainment in the 1990s, it quickly garnered a reputation for launching legendary artists like The Notorious B.I.G. But in the decades since, insiders like the former co-founder have exposed a much darker side of the hip-hop empire.

“With Sean, sometimes you’re humiliated,” Burrowes said in Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning. “Sometimes you’re made an example of. Sometimes violent things happen to you. Through the years, a lot of bad things happened to good friends.”

Burrowes has alleged that Combs subjected him to years of verbal, emotional and physical abuse during their time running the company together. In both the docuseries and two lawsuits, he claimed that in 1996, the rapper and music producer threatened him with a baseball bat to force him to sign over his 25% ownership stake in Bad Boy Entertainment.

He was later allegedly fired for declining to alter Biggie’s contract to the company’s advantage. Burrowes said in The Reckoning that he was blacklisted in the industry for the next 25 years.

Diddy’s lawyers denied Burrowes’ accusations in a statement to PEOPLE, calling the lawsuit “another frivolous attempt to re-litigate claims that have been repeatedly thrown out of court over the past 30 years.”

So, where is Kirk Burrowes now? Here’s everything to know about his life 30 years after forming Bad Boy Entertainment with Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Burrowes co-founded Bad Boy with Combs in the 1990s

Combs and Burrowes co-founded the music label Bad Boy Entertainment in 1993. The company’s creation came two years after nine people died in a stampede during a celebrity basketball game that the “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper had organized, CNN reported.

Combs allegedly gave his mother, Janice, 75% of the company in stock and Burrowes the remaining 25% to avoid being held financially responsible for the tragedy.

“He did not put the company in his name to protect him from paying families at CCNY,” Combs’ former business partner alleged in The Reckoning. “And I saw from that moment on, Sean had shifted in his personality.”

During his career at Bad Boy Entertainment, Burrowes served as the chief operating officer, general manager and president, according to his 2025 complaint.

He sued Combs for sexual abuse in 2025 

In February 2025, Burrowes filed a lawsuit against Combs, accusing him of years of alleged “predatory” actions that included subjecting him to “repeated sexual harassment, physical aggression and forced compliance with degrading sexual acts.”

The former Bad Boy Entertainment COO claimed that he was forced to witness “nudity, sexual overtones, voyeurism and acts of exhibitionism” during what he believed to be business meetings. According to the complaint, the alleged harassment occurred during 1992 and 1994 and escalated to “physical coercion and forced submission” as well as alleged sexual abuse between 1995 and 1996.

The alleged 1996 baseball bat incident was included in this complaint, as well as a separate suit Burrowes filed in 2003. However, that case was dismissed.

He also separately filed a complaint against Janice, claiming that she “knowingly participated in the fraudulent scheme to obtain 100% control” of Bad Boy Entertainment and that she “carefully maintained a facade of integrity … while orchestrating plaintiff’s financial and professional downfall behind the scenes.”

Both 2025 cases remain pending.

Combs allegedly forced him to give up ownership of Bad Boy 

According to court documents, Burrowes accused Combs of “forced coercion” that resulted in him losing his 25% stake in the company. The rapper allegedly “stormed” into the former COO’s office with a baseball bat and demanded he “sign over his 25% stake in Bad Boy Entertainment, Inc. or face violent repercussions.” 

Burrowes claimed he complied and signed away ownership “without receiving any financial compensation.” He also alleged that Combs took “active measures to erase” his contributions at Bad Boy Entertainment, per the filing.

Burrowes claimed Combs blacklisted him for other opportunities 

Though he continued working at Bad Boy Entertainment after losing his ownership stake, Burrowes claimed he was eventually fired for opposing Combs. He alleged in the Netflix docuseries that while The Notorious B.I.G.’s contract was being renegotiated — shortly before the rapper’s 1997 murder — the Bad Boy founder instructed him to secretly swap out pages of the signed agreement to better favor the company.

Burrowes said he refused and was fired 90 days later. In his 2025 lawsuit, he accused Combs of “post-termination harassment and blacklisting” up until 2022.

“For 25 years, I was basically blacklisted and banned,” he said in The Reckoning. “Next thing you know — shelters, homelessness.”

According to the complaint, Combs would “personally” contact industry executives to warn them against working with Burrowes.

His journals were used for the 2025 docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning

During his time at Bad Boy Entertainment, Burrowes took meticulous daily notes on the company’s activities. Those journals included not only the budget but a lot of what the COO needed to do to help Combs in his personal life.

“He had maybe 30 boxes of those journals,” The Reckoning director Alexandria Stapleton told Tudum in December 2025. “We pulled them out of storage, and one of my producers literally took them to her place, and we just scanned and scanned and scanned and scanned.”

Where is Kirk Burrowes now?

After allegedly being blacklisted from the music industry, Burrowes told Tudum that he shifted to TV and film work, including launching his own company: Pop Life Entertainment. According to his LinkedIn profile, he launched the company in 2018 in New York and has served as the chief executive officer since.

“I’m back, stronger than ever, with incredible stories to tell and the infrastructure to make them real,” he told the outlet. “This moment, this platform, is something far greater: It is my opportunity to finally speak my truth. Guided and empowered by my Lord and Savior, I remain steadfast.”

Burrowes added, “The battle is not over, but neither am I.”