Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs refusing to eat in prison due to fears of poisoning
Having already been denied bail, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs continues to struggle with life behind bars following reports the disgraced music mogul is refusing to eat in prison due to fears that his food will be poisoned.
Since his arrest, even more accusations have been made against the musician and producer, including allegations from a songwriter who collaborated with Combs’ former partner Cassie, who claimed she’d been spiked without her knowledge while working on new music with the latter.
Due to his status as a potential flight risk, any requests for Diddy to be granted bail have been rejected. The fallen industry heavyweight is currently locked up in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre following his arrest on federal charges including sex trafficking, forced labour, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.
According to former inmate Larry Levine, somebody he knows inside the detention centre with knowledge of Diddy’s ongoing incarceration informed him that Diddy has been growing increasingly paranoid over fears that attempts on his life will be made by poisoning his food.
“Imagine if someone paid someone off on the inside to actually poison his food, giving him a heart attack, and he dies, and no one would really think anything of it,” Levine said, per News Nation. “He’s really, really paranoid. He’s really, really scared. Doesn’t know what to think; he doesn’t know who to trust or what to believe.”
Combs’ representatives have claimed that the conditions of the prison are unsuitable for their client, who spends 23 hours of the day confined to his cell. His wealth and status don’t give him special treatment when the charges he’s facing couldn’t be more serious, but he’s not the only high-profile inmate housed on the same block.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the entrepreneur convicted of defrauding billions of dollars at the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and sentenced to 25 years in prison after his bail was revoked last year, is among the other defendants assigned to the same section of the correctional facility alongside Diddy.
Reports also emerged that Combs had been placed on suicide watch after being arrested, with the investigation still ongoing. He might be behind bars, but the allegations continue mounting against him, although no trial date has been set as of yet as prosecutors continue to comb through the evidence.
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