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(NewsNation) — Adding fuel to Sean Combs’ bonfire of bad news, the now incarcerated impresario was said to be “devastated” upon hearing of Quincy Jones’ death from pancreatic cancer earlier this month.
Combs was in thrall to Jones his entire career, and the men were close. Jones was one of the few who stood by Combs when the rapper was sent to jail awaiting trial for sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
Diddy’s adopted son, Quincy Brown (birth father Al B Sure), whom Combs raised since he was three, was also named after Jones.
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FILE -Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs participates in “The Four” panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 4, 2018. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) -
In this courtroom sketch, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense attorney Marc Agnifilo, left, addresses the judge while Combs, seated second from right, in prison uniform, watches during a hearing in federal court in New York, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. Combs’ new defense attorney, Anthony Ricco is seated far right. (Elizabeth Williams via AP) -
Sean “Diddy” Combs and Kim Porter during 2006 BET Awards – Press Room at The Shrine in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by J. Strauss/FilmMagic) -
Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, seen here in 2011.(Credit: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) -
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 07: P. Diddy and Cassie attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Huffington Post) -
LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 21: Joey Badass toasts to Sean “Diddy” Combs and the world premiere of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop at the official after party powered by CIROC Vodka and Deleon Vodka at a private residence on June 21, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic) -
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 01: Diddy attends The After hosted by Diddy & Doja Cat powered by Ciroc Premium Vodka and DeLeon Tequila at Club Love on May 01, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)
Diddy has been moved
Meanwhile, some semi-good news for Combs – the New York Post reports Diddy has been moved to the low-security “4 North unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, a dorm facility which has around 20 inmates, looser rules than general population and diversions for prisoners including air hockey.”
Another perk? The ladies.
“There are grates in one of the rooms of 4 North,” Gene Borrello, a former mob enforcer who spent time in the unit, told the Post. “They have little holes. If you lay down, you can look through the holes and talk to the women one floor down and see them.”
But Borrello warned that the females of 4 North are rungs down from the models, professional strippers and others who claimed to have been recruited by Diddy’s crew for the alleged “Freak Offs.” “They’re gross,” he said of the third-floor women. “Most of them are drug addicts.”