Living in lockup isn’t going well for disgraced Bad Bad mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, said prison expert Larry Levine.
Levine, director and founder of Wall Street Prison Consultants, appeared on DailyMail.com’s hit podcast, The Trial of Diddy, where he revealed Combs is getting daily visits from a psych team that’s monitoring his mental health.
‘He’s not really on suicide watch but my inside source there tells me that there is coming by to visit with him several times a day, you know, to make sure that he’s okay,’ Levine said.
He added: ‘He’s got somebody from the psychology department coming out to visit with him so it’s like a game that they play with the inmates. Remember, he’s not playing chess. He’s in a cell by himself.’
Combs, 54, has been locked up at Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) since he was arrested on September 16 on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation for purposes of prostitution.
Levine, whose company prepares defendants for prison life and helps them navigate rehab and other prison programs, claims Combs is already getting preferential treatment at the Brooklyn jail.
‘My sources are telling me that [Combs] is getting extra showers a week,’ Levine said. ‘I don’t know how many. It probably varies. They’re giving them extra privileges.’
MDC, known for its horrific conditions and violent incidents, currently houses about 1,200 inmates.
Other infamous criminals, including Jeffrey Epstein, his ‘madam’ and associate Ghislaine Maxwell and R&B singer R. Kelly, have been held at the Brooklyn facility.
There have been numerous deaths at MDC, sparking several civil lawsuits against the jail for wrongful deaths.
One included the death of a 36-year-old inmate Edwin Cordero, who died in July after he was injured in a jail fight.
Cordero’s attorney, Andrew Dalack, had called the facility ‘an overcrowded, understaffed and neglected federal jail that is hell on earth. ‘
Crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted of fraud, is also at the jail and complained about the jail’s food.
Bankman-Fried, who is a vegan, has been surviving on a diet of peanut butter, bread and water, his attorneys said.
Combs had similar complaints.
‘I think the food’s probably the roughest part of it,’ said one of Combs’ attorneys, Marc Agnifilo, after a hearing earlier this month.
Levine, who himself spent 10 years in federal prison for fraud and racketeering, said someone like Combs, who is used to a lavish lifestyle, will be affected not only by the physical restrictions in his cell.
He said allegations that Combs allegedly sexually assaulted minors also makes him a prime target amongst fellow prisoners.
This week, Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee and other attorneys filed seven new federal civil suits alleging Combs sexually assaulted or raped the claimants in separate incidents between 2000 and 2022.
Two of the anonymous accusers are men and three are women, including one who alleged that Combs drugged and raped her when she was 13-years- old at a VMAs afterparty in 2000.
The Busby law firm represents some 120 alleged victims who the firm announced would file suits against the Bad Boy producer earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Combs’ lawyers are still trying to get him out of jail and filed an appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court after two judges rejected his release on bail. The matter will be discussed at a hearing on November 4.
‘He’s got a lonely existence,’ Levine said of Combs. ‘He’s got a target on his back and you know … it’s fact he’s got too much on too many people.
‘Someone’s going to have to take him out and it’s not going to be the inmates there because they can’t get to him.’