Rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been placed on a suicide watch in the federal prison where he is being held without bail, according to a new report.
Combs is currently held in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after twice being refused bail.
Combs faces charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Prosecutors claim at events called “Freak Offs,” women were coerced to have sex and that some were filmed without their consent.
According to People, which cited sources it did not name, Combs is on a suicide watch. The report said the rap mogul’s mental state is unclear and he is in shock and that the suicide watch was a preventive step
Combs was arrested Monday and has been in the Brooklyn facility since Tuesday.
Some users on social media were swift to draw a connection between Combs’ suicide watch and the events leading up to the mysterious death of disgraced Hollywood power broker Jeffrey Epstein:
And so it begins. The ol’ Epstein treatment. Suicide watch from a well known public figure that has damaging evidence against powerful people.
They’ll say no guards were around and cameras weren’t working if Diddy is in fact unalived.
— SwitchedgearZ (@SwitchedgearZ) September 20, 2024
“And so it begins. The ol’ Epstein treatment. Suicide watch from a well known public figure that has damaging evidence against powerful people,” one X user pointed out Friday.
Marc Agnifilo, the attorney representing Combs, had wanted his client housed at a federal facility in Essex County, New Jersey.
A report from NBC said guards are closely monitoring Combs.
NBC’s source did note that a suicide watch is “procedural with high-profile clients.”
Combs “remains strong and focused on his defense,” the source added to NBC.
Sure….
Diddy is on “suicide watch”.
Just like Epstein was before he was FOUND DEAD BY SUICIDE.
— Colin (@ColinC101192) September 20, 2024
When attorneys for Combs sought bail for him, they said that “several courts in this District have recognized that the conditions at Metropolitan Detention Center are not fit for pre-trial detention,” according to The Daily Beast.
“Just earlier this summer, an inmate was murdered. At least four inmates have died by suicide there in the past three years,” the court document said.
Jeffrey Epstein redo?https://t.co/8e1EZYt00A (“Diddy is placed on suicide watch as video shows porn star inmate claim he was rapper’s sex slave”)
— Timothy D. Naegele (@TimothyDNaegele) September 20, 2024
A high-profile defendant on a suicide watch who is confined to a federal prison in New York City recalls the death of accused sex trafficker Epstein.
However, as noted by The Associated Press, Epstein was at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan, where he died on August 10, 2019, in a death that was ruled a suicide
The Brooklyn facility has held celebrity defendants such as R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell — and Epstein associate — according to the New York Post.
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