Comedian Eddie Griffin has called Sean Diddy Combs a dead man and said he wont leave prison alive as he awaits trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
The rapper is accused of forcing women into elaborate and produced sex performances, described as freak offs and will now have to serve time in a New York City prison once described as Hell on Earth after a judge denied his bail last week.
Combs, 54, will be serving pretrial detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn - notoriously plagued by suicides and murders, and once home to fellow disgraced rapper R. Kelly, convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, and fraudster Billy McFarland.
But speaking out on the rappers arrest and spate of charges, Eddie Griffin has warned Combs will likely not survive his time in the infamous prison.
Taking to his YouTube channel on Monday, the comedian likened the situation to that of Jeffrey Epstein - the disgraced American financier and pedophile who died while jailed and awaiting a federal sex trafficking trial in 2021.
Eddie Griffin took to his YouTube channel to call Diddy a dead man following his arrest last week on sex trafficking and racketeering charges
The indictment described Combs as the head of a criminal enterprise engaged in or attempting to engage in activities including sex trafficking, forced labor, interstate transportation for purposes of prostitution, drug offenses, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice
It is alleged that the rapper would coerce and manipulate victims into taking part in days-long sexual performances, which he dubbed freak offs. Pictured: Diddy attends the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey
Griffin said: I wonder who going to get the money, theres got to be a $100million hit on this, theres a contest in the penitentiary right now.
He a dead man, thats for damn sure.
The comedian added: Your ego got out of whack because you was controlling everything at them freak parties... now youve chopped both your feet and your hands off and your heads coming next.
Combs was sensationally arrested at Park Hyatt Hotel in New York City last week and has since been charged with sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution - all of which he pleaded not guilty to in a Manhattan court on September 17.
In the indictment against Diddy that was unsealed this week, it was claimed that federal raids on his Miami and Los Angeles mansions led to the discovery of over 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant.
It is alleged that the rapper would coerce and manipulate victims into taking part in days-long sexual performances, which he dubbed freak offs.
Diddys associates would allegedly ply victims with drugs to keep them compliant and would make threats against anyone refusing to engage, in claims similar to those made in a civil lawsuit brought by Diddys ex-girlfriend Cassie last year.
In a desperate attempt to remain free, he begged for bail, proposing his own home and his mothers as part of a $50million surety.
But Combs request was denied and he will remain in custody and if he is convicted on the racketeering charges, Combs faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, and a sex trafficking conviction would carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years behind bars.
Homeland Security Investigations carried out early morning raids on Combs homes in Los Angeles and Miami
These aerial images taken in October 19, 2023, show the sprawling waterfront properties owned by the embattled rap mogul, real name Sean Combs, that were raided by federal agents
A picture from inside Diddys Miami home shows how law enforcement agents conducted thorough searches
The jail that the disgraced hip hop star has been sent to has become the Big Apples primary federal detention center since 2021, when the Bureau of Prisons shuttered its sister facility in Manhattan - where child sex abuser Epstein died - over its appalling conditions.
But the Brooklyn facility has similarly been plagued by chronic understaffing, constant lockdowns, outbreaks of violence and a rash of suicides and deaths.
Combs lawyers even acknowledged the deplorable conditions in the bail request last week, noting that several courts in this District have recognized that the conditions at Metropolitan Detention Center are not fit for pre-trial detention.
Just earlier this summer, an inmate was murdered, the hip hop moguls defense attorneys wrote, according to the Daily Beast.
At least four inmates have died by suicide there in the past three years.
The attorneys were referencing the June 7 death of Uriel Whyte, who had been awaiting trial on gun charges for more than two years when he was stabbed to death.
The prison was put into a lockdown in the aftermath, where essentially, we come out of our cell every three days for a 15-minute shower, one inmate told NY 1 at the time.
Youre literally in solitary confinement when you shouldnt be, he said.
Inmates and their lawyers have also claimed they found cockroaches on their food and mold in the showers, and in a number of recent legal cases, conditions at the prison were describes as dreadful, longstanding, dirty, inhuman and an ongoing tragedy, Combs attorneys argued.
He will now be serving pretrial detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn
Ghislaine Maxwells attorneys complained she was underfed, losing her hair, given meals with plastic melted into the food, having to drink contaminated water and could smell overflowing toilets while she spent time at the prison
Rapper R Kelly had his lawyers sued the prison after he claimed they placed him on suicide watch as a punishment
Ghislaine Maxwell had been held at the facility in 2021 and while behind bars her lawyers complained she was underfed, losing her hair, given meals with plastic melted into the food, having to drink contaminated water and could smell overflowing toilets.
She also claimed that correctional officers were physically abusing her, holding her in defacto solitary confinement, keeping her awake with flashlights and subjected her to constant humiliating searches.
Previous inmate R Kelly also had his lawyers sued the prison after he claimed they placed him on suicide watch as a punishment.
In July of 2022 after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking and abusing young girls, his attorney said officers had violated his rights.
There are currently only 42 individuals serving out their sentence at the prison.
The rest are being detained ahead of criminal trials, like Diddy.
It comes as an anonymous source revealed to People that the rapper has briefly spoken to his seven children from the hellhole detention center.
The rapper shares a total of seven kids with four different women. He is dad to sons Quincy, 33, Justin, 30, and Christian, 26, and daughters Chance, 18, Jessie and D’Lila, 17, and Love, 23 months.
Diddy shares a total of seven kids with four different women. He is dad to sons Quincy, 33, Justin, 30, and Christian, 26, and daughters Chance, 18, Jessie and D’Lila, 17, and Love, 23 months; seen with all his seven children
He is very concerned about his kids and their well-being, the source stated.
He has three minor children, two of whom now have no living parent available with him incarcerated. Four of his seven children have neither parent available with him incarcerated.
On Tuesday Justin, Christian, and Quincy arrived together at a New York City courtroom to support their father.
Another source told People that Diddy is not getting any special accommodations at Brooklyns Metropolitan Detention Center.
He is being treated like any other detainee awaiting trial. As with all public figures in his position, he was placed on suicide watch upon admittance to the facility as a precaution.
Combs, who pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to sex trafficking charges, is being held in solitary confinement - away from the comforts of his $48 million mansion - and on suicide watch.