Sean “Diddy” Combs was moved from a Brooklyn federal lock-up the place he’s being held on intercourse fees to a hospital Thursday evening to obtain an MRI, a regulation enforcement supply mentioned.
The 54-year-old rap kingpin was taken from the infamous Metropolitan Detention Heart to Brooklyn Hospital round 10 p.m., the supply mentioned.
It wasn’t instantly identified why he was taken to the hospital at evening however the supply puzzled if the musician had been concerned in a jail battle or had another emergency.
Nevertheless, a second supply clarifies that Combs was not concerned in any altercation however was as an alternative taken to hunt medical help as a result of his “knee was bothering him,” citing the rapper’s lengthy historical past of knee points after he ran the New York marathon.
The insider provides that the hospital go to was performed late at evening to be able to keep away from whispers and additional hypothesis from different inmates or jail staffers. We’re additionally instructed Combs didn’t keep in a single day and was taken again to his cell after the MRI concluded.
A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson instructed The Submit, “For privateness, security, and safety causes we don’t touch upon the circumstances of confinement for anybody in our custody to incorporate medical standing or medical journeys.”
Our regulation enforcement supply mentioned they got a heads up about what occurred “simply in case it was leaked and they might have chaos.” The supply mentioned somebody “would possibly wish to free him.”
Reps and attorneys for Combs couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
The music mogul has been held at MDC since he was denied bail on Dec. 3 and is awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking, racketeering and prostitution fees.
Combs was accused of abusing a number of girls and main Dangerous Boy Data as a “prison enterprise” for greater than a decade.
Combs compelled his lovers into the “Freak-Offs,” days-long sexual “performances” the place the ladies had intercourse with male escorts whereas he watched and masturbated, in keeping with court docket papers.
He would secretly movie the encounters to make use of as leverage in opposition to his alleged victims, the feds declare.
Combs has denied all wrongdoing. His trial is scheduled to start on Might 5.
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