Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is facing federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, is sharing space in Brooklyn’s federal lockup with crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried.
Both high-profile inmates are in a special housing unit at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC Brooklyn) — Combs due to recently filed federal sex charges and Bankman-Fried after being sentenced to 25 years in prison for the massive FTX cryptocurrency scam.
Federal prison officials are reluctant to provide details about his incarceration.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons stated, “For privacy, security, and safety reasons, the Federal Bureau of Prisons does not provide information about conditions of confinement, including housing assignments or internal security practices, for any particular incarcerated individual.” told NBC New York, who first reported this story.
According to NBC New York, the pair live in the same bunk room as 18 to 20 inmates who require a higher level of security.
Other members of the unit include government informants who might be in danger among the general public.
The Brooklyn facility has been the only federal detention center in New York City since the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan was closed in 2021.
Combs, 54, Arrested from Big Apple Hotel Last week he was charged with sex trafficking by fraud, force, fraud or coercion, and transportation for the purpose of prosecution.
The Bad Boy Records founder was ordered held without bail as federal prosecutors argued he posed an “extreme danger to the community.”
Combs denied the allegations.
His attorney, Mark Agnifilo, suggested at a hearing last week that he would push to have Combs transferred to New Jersey's Essex County Correctional Facility — but he backed down on Monday.
“At this time, there has been no request from counsel to the court to take any action,” he said.
Sources also dismissed earlier reports that Combs was on suicide watch.
Meanwhile, Bankman-Fried, 32, remains jailed at a Brooklyn facility pending his appeal. He was convicted of fraud in November and sentenced in March to 25 years in prison for one of the biggest fraud scams in US history.
Prosecutors argued that Crypto fraud and other top executives His company stole $8 billion from client accounts on the FTX exchange to make risky investments, make illegal campaign contributions mostly to Democrats, buy luxury Caribbean properties, and even bribe Chinese officials.
Bankman—Fried's former lover and Caroline Allison, top executive at FTXThe wife, who testified against her ex-husband, is scheduled to be sentenced this week, and prosecutors are asking for leniency because of her cooperation.
Held in the Brooklyn Federal Lockup Earlier, other high-profile prisonersThese include the late pop singer R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein's colleague Ghislaine Maxwell.
