Sean “Diddy” Combs survived the prison attack, according to a longtime friend of the rapper.
Charlucci Finney claimed to the Daily Mail on Wednesday that the embattled music mogul “woke up with a knife to his throat” in a cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
“I don’t know if he fought him off or if security came,” Finney, who has known Combs for more than 30 years, claimed without specifying when it allegedly happened. “All I know is that it happened.”
He speculated that the terrifying encounter may have been more of a threat than an actual attempt to harm Combs.
“If this man had been trying to harm himself, Sean would have been harmed,” Finney said. “It would only take a second to slit his throat with a weapon and kill him.
“It was probably a saying, ‘I’m not going to be so lucky next time,'” he added. “It’s all blackmail. But that doesn’t work with Sean. Sean is from Harlem.”
Finney called his friend, 55, “unbreakable” and praised the Grammy winner as a “loving caregiver, father, brother (and) best friend.”
He added, “I’m sure he’s going to do whatever it takes to continue to be Sean Combs when he comes out.”
Combs’ legal team did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
The Bad Boy Records creator has been in a Brooklyn jail since his arrest in September 2024 on charges of sex trafficking, extortion and prostitution.
Combs was found guilty in July of the following year on two counts of transportation for the purpose of prostitution.
Last month, he was sentenced to four years and two months in federal prison.
In addition, Combs was ordered to attend a mental health and substance abuse program and pay a $500,000 fine to the court.
His lawyers had previously asked for a near-immediate release on the grounds that Combs had “served more than a year in one of America’s most notorious prisons” and had “taken full advantage of his sentence.”
In a September filing, Combs’ lawyers claimed the songwriter was on “constant suicide watch” in prison and was approached by fellow inmates carrying makeshift shib blades.
The legal team argued that the “Coming Home” rapper talked Combs down after an individual accused Combs of sitting in the chair.
Combs submitted a letter to the judge at his sentencing hearing in October, insisting he was calm and “no longer running away from (his) mistakes.”
Seventy-five of Combs’ loved ones also submitted letters in her defense, including her ex-girlfriend Cassandra “Cathy” Ventura, who asked for a sentence that took into account “a horrific ten years of (her) life tainted by abuse, violence, forced sex, and degradation.”
The former couple dated on and off from 2007 to 2018, and Ventura testified about their time together at Combs’ trial in May, when she was pregnant with her husband Alex Fine’s third child.
In the letter, the 39-year-old wrote that she was “extremely scared” of retaliation upon Combs’ release for his bombshell comments.
“Although I have made considerable progress in recovering from his abuse, I remain extremely fearful of his ability and the ill will he undoubtedly harbors against me for having the courage to speak the truth,” she wrote.
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