Jail that holds Diddy, and now Mangione, infamous for bad conditions
The Brooklyn jail where CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione is held has a history of horrible conditions and holding a plethora of celebrity inmates.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been “kind” to Sam Bankman-Fried, according to the embattled FTX founder.
Bankman-Fried seemingly praised the disgraced rapper and Bad Boy Records founder during an interview on “The Tucker Carlson Show” podcast released Thursday.
“I’ve only seen one piece of him, which is Diddy in prison, and he’s been kind to people in the unit; he’s been kind to me,” Bankman-Fried said. “It’s also, it’s a position no one wants to be in.”
Last March, Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the final chapter in the former billionaire prodigy’s dramatic downfall.
Combs is awaiting a federal sex crimes trial in May after his arrest at a Manhattan hotel in September and has faced dozens of civil lawsuits from accusers who have levied allegations of inappropriate and illegal sexual conduct.
“It’s kind of a soul crushing place for the world in general, and what we see are just the people that are around us on the inside rather than who we are on the outside,” Bankman-Fried told Carlson in the 40-minute interview posted on X and also available on streaming platforms.
Combs is being held in the same unit as Bankman-Fried at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, which is also home to suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione.
Tucker Carlson calls Diddy, Sam Bankman-Fried ‘famous prisoners’
Carlson said Bankman-Fried and Diddy are “two of the most famous prisoners in the world in the same unit” but the former CEO claimed it’s “sort of a big opportunity (for other inmates) to meet people they otherwise wouldn’t get to meet” as the ex-Fox News host apologized for laughing at the statement.
At the end of the interview, Carlson said “I hope you’ll give our best to Diddy,” adding, “I can’t believe you’re in jail with Diddy.”
Bankman-Fried responded: “If someone would have told me three years ago like, ‘You’ll be hanging out with Diddy every day,’ I would be like, ‘Oh that’s interesting. I wonder how that’s going to happen, I guess he gets into crypto or something.’”
Contributing: Reuters
Leave a Reply