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Diddy in the same prison as R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell and more

The Brooklyn Detention Center where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held pending his sex trafficking arrest and upcoming trial is home to a large number of high-profile criminals.

Combs is being held in solitary confinement in the special housing unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a federal prison that previously housed R. Kelly before and during the trial of the disgraced R&B singer, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2022 for sex trafficking and organized crime.

Kelly has since been transferred and has been housed at a federal penitentiary in North Carolina since last year, The Associated Press reported.

Other prominent inmates at the facility include Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for helping him sexually abuse underage girls. Maxwell has since also been transferred and is currently being housed in an “honor dorm” at a federal prison in Florida.

Sean "Diddy" Combs attends the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on September 12, 2023.

Other former inmates include rappers 6ix9ine and Fetty Wap, the latter of whom is now being held in a federal prison in Ohio, and Martin Shkreli, the “pharma brother” who was convicted of securities fraud in 2017. He had his bail revoked and was sent to the Brooklyn facility after threatening former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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