Sean “Diddy” Combs spent the night locked up in a notorious Brooklyn federal jail that has long been plagued by tales of “barbaric” and “reprehensible” conditions for inmates — who have included notorious sex abusers R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Combs, 54, was hauled away to the infamous Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park late Tuesday after he was ordered to be held without bail on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
The embattled hip-hop mogul will be held there ahead of a scheduled Manhattan federal court hearing Wednesday afternoon where he is expected to appeal the decision to keep him behind bars.
The jail itself has faced intense scrutiny in recent years amid a spate of vicious inmate attacks and complaints about dismal living conditions — including maggot-infested food, filthy cells and power outages.
The apparent conditions were brought into the spotlight during the sex-trafficking trial of Maxwell — the notorious madam for late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — when her attorney ripped the facility in court filings as “reprehensible and utterly inappropriate.”
The jail’s conditions rivaled those experienced by fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs,” the attorney had claimed.
During her two-year stint in MDC, Epstein’s madam also complained about having to use a bathroom with an open sewer drain and rats running around, as well as noshing on rotten and maggot-infested food.
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Meanwhile, inmates endured freezing temperatures for roughly a week in 2019 after an electrical fire caused the facility’s heat and lighting to fail.
Here’s what we know about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs
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- Sean “Diddy” Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security in March amid a possible ongoing sex-trafficking investigation.
- Authorities targeted the rapper’s homes to seize phones and computers, sources told The Post.
- At least four Jane Does and one John Doe have been interviewed by New York prosecutors in connection to sex-trafficking allegations and a RICO case, sources told Rolling Stone.
- Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie (Cassandra Ventura) filed a lawsuit against him in November 2023 on several allegations, including rape and physical abuse for over a decade.
- Combs and Cassie settled the lawsuit one day after she filed it.
- In November 2023, the rapper was accused of drugging, filming and sexually assaulting a woman on a date in 1991.
- A third woman filed a lawsuit against the celebrity in November 2023, claiming that he and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns sexually assaulting her and a friend in the early 1990s.
- In December 2023, Combs was hit with a fourth sexual assault lawsuit that accused him and others of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at his NYC recording studio after drugging her and supplying her with alcohol.
- In September 2024, Diddy was sued by Dawn Richard, a participant on Combs’ 2004 MTV show “Making The Band,” claiming that he once broke into her dressing room and began groping her breasts and butt.
The violence-plagued federal lockup made headlines again early last year when it was hit with claims that staff had allegedly “covered up” a knife attack on an inmate.
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The facility –, which holds both pre-trial detainees as well as those serving short federal sentences — currently holds roughly 1,700 inmates.
Combs joins a long list of other celeb names to be imprisoned there — including R. Kelly and Fetty Wap.
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Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, actress Allison Mack and Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen have also all done stints there.
Combs’ time in the lockup comes after he pleaded not guilty to a three-count indictment that accuses him of leading a depraved criminal empire in which he threatened women and forced them to take part in drugged-up sex shows for over a decade.
Prosecutors described the Bad Boy Records founder as “a serial abuser and a serial obstructor” as they sought to keep him in custody pending a trial.
Combs was arrested at a New York City hotel late Monday on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and transportation for the purposes of prostitution.