Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Sean “Diddy” Combs is currently incarcerated at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center as he awaits trial, and he’s spending most of his time alone in his cell.
While Us Weekly does not know the exact current conditions at MDC, several former inmates shared their experiences — and the conditions are not glamorous.
“In solitary [confinement], you spend 23 hours [a day] in your cell,” a former MDC inmate exclusively tells Us Weekly, noting that prisoners in general population are allowed to walk around within their units. “Inmates can only shower two times per week.”
Blair G, another former MDC inmate who spent five months at the jail, tells Us that anything Diddy, 54, needs to do outside his cell must be done within his one allotted hour per day.
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“He’ll do everything in that hour — [use the] phone, shower, eat,” he explains. “You got to do all that stuff in that one hour’s time.”
Blair G, who notes “they had people way less famous than [Diddy] isolated” during his stint at MDC, says Diddy will almost definitely be showering by himself.
“The shower conditions are disgusting,” he shares. “[But] he would get a shower by himself, behind the wall and everything like that.”
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
While Diddy will have the option to go outside during his hour of relative freedom, a third former MDC inmate tells Us that the outdoor area is just a rooftop.
“The [prison yard] is basically the roof of the building, and there’s a gate above you and you [can] see out, [but] you really won’t get sunlight, especially at this time of the year,” he explains. “There’s probably only a two-month period where the sun is in position to actually give you sunlight.”
With 23 hours a day of time to himself in his cell, Diddy will have to “get inside of his own head,” the third inmate says.
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“There’s not much to really do. … You can exercise inside the cell. … He’ll have [a] pen and paper. He could write songs if he wants to,” he says. “I would describe it as you have to internalize, you have to go inside yourself and start to make peace with yourself and realize this is where you are, this is where you’re gonna be. So, figure out how to make the best of it.”
Diddy’s new reality stands in stark contrast to his old life of yacht parties and living in a $35 million Miami mansion. Prison consultant Sam Mangel tells Us that the MDC is “pure hell” and calls it “probably the worst federal detention center in the country.” Us has reached out to Diddy’s rep for comment.
The music mogul was indicted by a grand jury and taken into federal custody on September 16 after pleading not guilty to racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution. He was denied bail, a decision he appealed on Monday, September 30.
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Diddy faces anywhere from 15 years to life in prison if convicted. His next court appearance is scheduled for October 9. His lawyer Marc Agnifilo expects him to testify in court.
“I don’t know that I could keep him off the stand,” Agnifilo said in the new TMZ documentary The Downfall of Diddy: The Indictment, which is now streaming on Tubi. “I think he is very eager to tell his story.”
For more on Diddy, pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly — on newsstands now.
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With reporting by Amanda Williams, Sarah Jones and Andrea Simpson
