Sean “Diddy” Combs' good friend Charlucci Finney is claiming the rapper endured a scary and practically deadly incident whereas behind bars.
“He awoke with a knife to his throat,” Finney alleged in an interview with the Daily Mail revealed on Wednesday, October 22. “I don't know whether or not he fought him off or the guards got here, I simply know that it occurred.”
Finney, who has reportedly been shut pals with Diddy, 55, for years, instructed the outlet that he believed the alleged incident contained in the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn was meant to scare the music producer fairly than harm him.
“If this man had needed to hurt him, Sean would have been harmed,” he stated. “It could solely take a second to chop his throat with a weapon and kill him.”
Finney continued, “It was in all probability a method to say: ‘Subsequent time you ain't gonna be so fortunate.' Every thing is intimidation. However with Sean it gained't work. Sean is from Harlem.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Diddy's staff and the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn for remark.
Diddy has been in jail since his September 2024 arrest. Following a federal indictment, he was introduced in on fees of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Diddy has maintained his innocence and pleaded not responsible.
“We're upset with the choice to pursue what we consider is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Lawyer's Workplace,” Diddy's authorized staff stated in an announcement to Us on the time. Sean ‘Diddy' Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving household man, and confirmed philanthropist who has spent the final 30 years constructing an empire, adoring his kids, and dealing to uplift the Black group.”
Diddy's case went to trial in Could. Two months later, he was discovered responsible on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He was discovered not responsible on two counts of intercourse trafficking and one rely of racketeering conspiracy.
Diddy was sentenced to 50 months in jail in October. The 12 months he has spent in jail since his arrest will rely towards his sentence. The decide additionally fined Diddy $500,000 and ordered 5 years of supervised launch as soon as he leaves jail.
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Days earlier than Diddy's sentencing, his legal professionals requested the decide to present Diddy a 14-month sentence adopted by a supervised launch with necessary drug remedy, particular person remedy and group remedy.
The attorneys claimed that Diddy “has been adequately punished by serving 13 months within the horrible situations” on the Brooklyn jail. The alleged situations embrace “fixed suicide watch,” the place the rapper is checked on by safety guards each two hours, even whereas he's asleep, “restricted entry to wash water,” and “lack of entry to wholesome, or edible, meals.”
Us beforehand reported that Diddy's legal professionals filed a discover of attraction on Monday, October 20, in New York, requesting an attraction for the conviction and sentence of the cost of transportation to have interaction in prostitution. The paperwork didn't embrace an evidence for the explanation for the attraction. Nonetheless, Diddy's authorized staff has beforehand argued that the statute governing transportation, the Mann Act, shouldn't apply within the case.
