Brooklyn’s grim Metropolitan detention center (MDC) is now for the foreseeable future home to Diddy, AKA Sean Combs, one of the most well-known voices in American entertainment whose business empire once seemed to know no bounds.
The MDC is 5 miles (8km) from the public housing projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant where Combs’s biggest Bad Boy Records star, Biggie Smalls, grew up, but more than 20 miles from the middle-class suburb of Mount Vernon, where Combs himself was raised.
Smalls was murdered in Los Angeles in 1997, but Combs went on to amass a fortune and global fame by marrying street attitude to luxury consumer capitalism. But that all crashed and burned last week. On Wednesday a New York judge rejected a $50m bail package for Combs, in part because of witness intimidation allegations, ahead of his trial on three criminal counts, including racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution.
I wonder if names will be named?
