Sean “Diddy” Combs’ friend Charlucci Finney is claiming the rapper endured a scary and nearly fatal incident while behind bars.
“He woke up with a knife to his throat,” Finney alleged in an interview with the Daily Mail published on Wednesday, October 22. “I don’t know whether he fought him off or the guards came, I just know that it happened.”
Finney, who has reportedly been close friends with Diddy, 55, for years, told the outlet that he believed the alleged incident inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn was meant to scare the music producer rather than hurt him.
“If this guy had wanted to harm him, Sean would have been harmed,” he said. “It would only take a second to cut his throat with a weapon and kill him.”
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Finney continued, “It was probably a way to say: ‘Next time you ain’t gonna be so lucky.’ Everything is intimidation. But with Sean it won’t work. Sean is from Harlem.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Diddy’s team and the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for comment.
Diddy has been in jail since his September 2024 arrest. Following a federal indictment, he was brought in on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution. Diddy has maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty.
“We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” Diddy’s legal team said in a statement to Us at the time. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children, and working to uplift the Black community.”
Diddy’s case went to trial in May. Two months later, he was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He was found not guilty on two counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering conspiracy.
Diddy was sentenced to 50 months in prison in October. The year he has spent in jail since his arrest will count toward his sentence. The judge also fined Diddy $500,000 and ordered five years of supervised release once he leaves prison.
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Days before Diddy’s sentencing, his lawyers asked the judge to give Diddy a 14-month sentence followed by a supervised release with mandatory drug treatment, individual therapy and group therapy.
The attorneys claimed that Diddy “has been adequately punished by serving 13 months in the terrible conditions” at the Brooklyn prison. The alleged conditions include “constant suicide watch,” where the rapper is checked on by security guards every two hours, even while he is asleep, “limited access to clean water,” and “lack of access to healthy, or edible, food.”
Us previously reported that Diddy’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal on Monday, October 20, in New York, requesting an appeal for the conviction and sentence of the charge of transportation to engage in prostitution. The paperwork did not include an explanation for the reason for the appeal. However, Diddy’s legal team has previously argued that the statute governing transportation, the Mann Act, should not apply in the case.
