When “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” was released on Netflix on Dec. 2, the internet immediately locked in on one figure, Juror 160, a self-described millennial Black woman who categorized herself as not a “personal fan of [Diddy] but, in general, the music” who later would a little too fondly describe how Combs’ behavior in court was similar to his appearances in “Making the Band” episodes and how they “locked eyes.”
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Within hours, TikTok sleuths, Threads/IG users, and gossip blogs were on the hunt to identify her. And, because people online love a theory more than a fact, they quickly landed on the wrong woman.
That woman is Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, a digital marketing strategist and former journalist whose unrelated 2009 BET Awards photo with Combs turned into a media smoking gun. Literally, a media-industry moment like any other was soon yanked out of context and turned into “evidence” by people hell-bent on being right rather than accurate (or factual).
The resemblance between Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and the actual juror is superficial at best, but that has not stopped users from reposting her image, tagging her name, and insisting she was the infamous “Juror 160.”
She isn’t.
But, by the time Mitchell-Rohrbaugh publicly denied the claim, the misinformation had already metastasized. Her picture was circulating on Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, and, eventually, tabloid sites which repeated the speculation without confirming her identity, some going so far as to suggest the case should be readjudicated.
What soon followed was an avalanche: strangers demanding explanations, commenters accusing her of helping Combs, and people gleefully spreading a story that was never true.
This is the cost of viral misinformation, especially for Black women, who are too often treated as interchangeable silhouettes in the digital imagination. The internet didn’t ask whether Wynter could be the juror; it simply decided she was close enough.
While the docuseries sparked real conversations about violence, power, and accountability, Wynter became collateral damage in a rumor mill that prioritizes spectacle over truth. She appears to be exploring legal options to get the false claims removed and to hold outlets accountable for amplifying them.
As viewers dissect Diddy’s reckoning, let this be part of ours: being loud and wrong online still has real-world consequences. Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh deserves better than being dragged into a story she was never in.
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