Disgraced rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is sharing a cell with convicted cyber-swindler Sam Bankman-Fried successful a Brooklyn jail.
The brace is reportedly being held successful a dormitory benignant country astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center, wherever Combs is awaiting proceedings connected racketeering and enactment trafficking charges and Friedman is appealing fraud and conspiracy convictions that could enactment him distant for 25 years.
Multiple outlets including NBC News confirmed the high-profile bedfellows are being detained successful a astir 20-person abstraction designated for inmates who request peculiar protection. The Federal Bureau of Prisons doesn’t remark connected captive boarding.
The 1,600 idiosyncratic Metropolitan Detention Center has a estimation for undesirable surviving conditions. Two inmates were fatally stabbed determination implicit the summer. Another antheral was gored by pack members 44 times successful April but survived.
Combs, 54, is no alien to violence.
His checkered past includes assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura successful a edifice successful 2016, which came to airy successful May erstwhile information video documenting the incident was made public. He issued an apology connected Instagram wherever helium called his actions “inexcusable.”
Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to the seemingly unrelated transgression charges helium present faces and is being held without bail.
Bankman-Fried, 32, was convicted for stealing $8 cardinal from customers, according to prosecutors. He filed a 102-page appeal connected Sept. 13 revolving mostly astir evidentiary rulings.