Charlucci Finney, a friend of Combs, has revealed the rapper endured a scary and nearly fatal incident while behind bars.
“He woke up with a knife to his throat,” Finney alleged in an interview with the Daily Mail. “I don’t know whether he fought him off or the guards came, I just know that it happened.”
Finney, a long standing friend of Combs, told the outlet that he believed the alleged incident inside the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn was meant to scare the music producer rather than hurt him.
“If this guy had wanted to harm him, Sean would have been harmed,” he said. “It would only take a second to cut his throat with a weapon and kill him.”
Finney continued, “It was probably a way to say: ‘Next time you ain’t gonna be so lucky.’ Everything is intimidation. But with Sean it won’t work. Sean is from Harlem.”
Combs has been in jail since his September 2024 arrest on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
His case went to trial in May. Two months later, he was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Combs was sentenced in October to 50 months in prison.
