Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is facing federal sex trafficking and racketeering raps, is sharing space with crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried at Brooklyn’s federal lockup.
Both high-profile inmates are in a special housing unit at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC Brooklyn) — Combs on the recently-filed federal sex charges and Bankman-Fried after getting smacked with a 25-year prison sentence in the massive FTX cryptocurrency scandal.
Federal prison officials are mum on further details of their incarceration.
“For privacy, safety and security reasons, the Federal Bureau of Prisons does not provide information about conditions of confinement, including housing assignments or internal security practices for any particular incarcerated individual,” the feds told NBC New York, which first reported the story.
The pair are in the same “barracks-style” wing of the jail, which houses 18 to 20 inmates who need a higher level of security, according to NBC New York.
Others in the unit include government snitches, who would be in danger in gen pop.
The Brooklyn facility has been the only federal holding center in New York City since the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan was shuttered in 2021.
Combs, 54, was arrested at a Big Apple hotel last week and charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation for the purpose of prosecution.
The Bad Boy Records founder was ordered held without bail after federal prosecutors argued he was an “extreme danger to the community.”
Combs pleaded not guilty to the charges.
His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, suggested at a hearing last week that he would push for Combs to be transferred to the Essex County Correctional Facility in New Jersey — but backtracked Monday.
“At this point, there is no request from counsel that the court take any action,” he said.
Sources also dismissed earlier reports that Combs was on suicide watch.
Meanwhile, Bankman-Fried, 32, is at the Brooklyn facility pending his appeal after he was found guilty of fraud in November and sentenced to 25 years in March for one of the largest fraud scandals in US history.
Prosecutors argued that the crypto cheat and other top executives at his firm stole $8 billion from customer accounts on the FTX exchange to make risky investments, make illegal campaign contributions to mostly Democrats, buy ritzy Caribbean properties and even bribe Chinese officials.
Bankman-Fried’s former lover and a top executive at FTX Caroline Ellison, who testified against her ex, is due to be sentenced this week, with prosecutors asking for leniency due to her cooperations.
The Brooklyn federal lockup has housed other high-profile inmates before, including fallen pop singer R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein cohort Ghislaine Maxwell.
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