Diddy Goes From ‘Freak-Offs’ to Sharing Jail Unit With Sam Bankman-Fried: NBC

Disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is reportedly sharing space in jail with crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried. 

A Tuesday report by NBC, citing three sources familiar with the matter, said that the two are sharing the same “barrack-style” living space in a unit designed for approximately 18-20 inmates.

Combs and Bankman-Fried are currently both being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York City. 

Feds arrested rap superstar and entrepreneur Combs earlier this month and hit him with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges, including for coercing women into participating in lavish “freak-off” sex parties.

The United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York alleges that the Grammy award-winning producer abused and coerced women and others, and led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and the obstruction of justice.

A judge denied a $50 million bail proposal from Combs’ lawyer and jailed him until his trial starts. 

Combs’ lawyer did not immediately confirm or deny the NBC report. 

Bankman-Fried is currently serving a 25-year sentence for his part in the collapse of his crypto company, FTX. 

The once-massive crypto brand went bankrupt in November 2022; Bankman-Fried was arrested and then hit with fraud charges for criminally mismanaging the exchange. Lawyers for Bankman-Fried—better known as “SBF”—earlier this month appealed his sentence, arguing that their client never received a fair trial. He is currently serving 25 years in prison.

Following the collapse in late 2022, details emerged about how tightly interwoven the leadership team was across FTX and sister firm Alameda Research, with Bankman-Fried, former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, and other executives living in a Bahamas penthouse polycule—a romantic network of overlapping sexual relationships.

Ellison, who will be sentenced later Tuesday for her own role in the FTX debacle, had previously written about race science and “imperial Chinese harem” polyamory on a Tumblr blog two years before the companies folded.

Edited by Andrew Hayward