Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs isn’t exactly living a simple life in prison, according to an NBC News report released Tuesday.
The rapper allegedly built a comfortable lifestyle at Fort Dix reformatory in New Jersey; Other inmates there provide for his basic needs, and he is said to have access to moonshine and a mobile phone.
“This is not a normal thing you see in prison,” a man who lived in the same unit as Combs at the low-security prison told NBC News. “This is some rich bullshit. It seems crazy, but it’s still Diddy.”
The Bad Boy Records mogul, who is serving a 50-month prison sentence for prostitution-related offenses, reportedly paid men to cook for her, make her bed and do her laundry, as well as giving her what NBC described as a “Chinese-style massage.”
Sources say luxury goes far beyond bartering with others to run errands. Insiders also alleged that Combs had access to contraband cellphones from which he controlled social media and received sexually explicit photos from “an ex-girlfriend.” NBC’s investigation also includes a photo showing the rapper using a cell phone in violation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Contraband Cell Phone Act of 2010.
He also reportedly had a stockpile of fine liquor, which was smuggled out by guards and which he sometimes shared with a “tight group of inmates.”
“Yes, I drank with him,” one man who described drinking Hennessy with Combs told NBC.
But maintaining a comfortable standard of living in prison is not cheap. Sources allege Combs spent thousands of dollars a month keeping outside associates on others’ brokerage accounts in exchange for their services.
But news of Combs’ fascinating life on the inside may have turned his situation upside down. On Wednesday, TMZ claimed multiple sources told the site that he had been sent to solitary confinement.
A representative for the rapper dismissed these accounts as media sensations in a statement to NBC News, saying: “The constant scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs’ life in prison has reached the point where the media is calling mundane prison life news.”
“The only real news is that Sean continues to serve his sentence while awaiting the court’s decision on his appeal,” he continued.