Sean “Diddy” Combs will celebrate Christmas at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he awaits trial next May after pleading not guilty to charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution.
In this week’s issue of PEOPLE magazine, on newsstands Friday, inmates and those close to Combs talk about his time behind bars and the meals he’ll be eating over the holidays.
Combs regularly plays cards with other inmates and shoots hoops during recreation hours, and family members visit him on weekdays. “He is loved in prison,” says the former prisoner. “People agree with him.”
Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn.
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On Dec. 25, Christmas morning, breakfast will be at 6 a.m.—just like every other day—and will consist of fruit, cereal, breakfast cookies and skim milk, according to a prison menu obtained by PEOPLE. On Christmas Eve, Combs will be served the same breakfast, but with brownies instead of cakes.
Lunch will be served around 11am and will include roast Cornish hen or BBQ tofu. Among the side dishes on offer will be macaroni and cheese, spinach, cranberry sauce, rolls for dinner or a holiday dessert and a drink.
On Christmas Eve, Combs will serve a fried chicken sandwich with lettuce, tomato and mayo on a hamburger bun or a chickpea burger accompanied by steamed rice, pinto beans and fruit with a drink.
The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn will offer two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on whole wheat bread, potato chips, fruit and a drink for the Christmas dinner, which will be served after 4 p.m. The prison offered the same evening meal this year on Thanksgiving.
But on Christmas Eve, December 24, Diddy will be served a different meal for dinner. It consists of roast turkey or navy beans, baked sweet potato, mixed vegetables and wheat bread with margarine and a drink.
Diddy will be eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Thanksgiving dinner in prison
The disgraced music mogul was denied bail by three different judges. He first requested pretrial release during a federal court appearance on Sept. 17, a day after he was arrested in a Manhattan hotel room on federal sex crime charges.
His second bail application was rejected a day later, on September 18, by a different judge, who cited concerns about undue influence on witnesses. His third and final bail application was rejected on Wednesday, November 27.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in August 2023.
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At the time of the third sentencing, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Arun Subramanian cited several reasons in the decision, noting that Combs was a danger to the community as well as the seriousness of the violent crimes he was charged with. with. The judge said “no conditions” would mitigate the risk of tampering or tampering with witnesses in his case.
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A month later, on December 13, Combs dropped his bail appeal.
Combs’ indictment centers on alleged “freaks,” which prosecutors allege were elaborate sexual acts involving male sex workers and women who were coerced or coerced into participating. It accuses Combs of being the ringleader of a “criminal enterprise” that allowed him to sexually, physically, emotionally and verbally abuse his victims for years.
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Now resigned to life behind bars until his day in court next year, Combs scored a legal victory when a judge granted him access to a laptop preloaded with discovery documents that will allow him to prepare for trial.
Despite Combs’ optimistic outlook, on top of the criminal charges, he now faces more than 30 civil sexual assault lawsuits filed since last year.
A judge has ruled that Diddy can have access to a ‘Discovery laptop’ in his prison unit
Earlier this week, Judge Subramanian denied a defense request for an evidentiary hearing on defense claims that the prosecution leaked sensitive details to the press, including surveillance footage of Combs attacking singer and ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway. 2016 which was broadcast by CNN. The judge noted that there would be consequences if evidence of this leak emerged.
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“With respect to the Intercontinental Hotel video, Combs has not met his burden to show that the government released it to CNN,” Subramanian wrote in his decision. “Combs claims that ‘the most likely source of the leak is the government,’ but he points to no solid basis for this conclusion.”
The judge added that none of Combs’ arguments that the Department of Homeland Security was the source of the video broadcast by CNN was ‘persuasive.'”
Wearing a khaki prison jumpsuit, Combs returned to court in Manhattan on Wednesday, Dec. 18, where Judge Subramanian requested that Combs and his defense team provide updated case schedules by Jan. 3, “to avoid any last-minute surprises.” .”
The Bad Boy mogul is due back in court on March 17. His federal trial is scheduled for May 5, 2025.
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