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Federal Officials Deny Diddy Was Injured in a Prison Fight (10/16/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about Diddy and the fight that he
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  Speaker 1: got into in jail, allegedly with the drug lord, Christopher Koch. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, the BOP, has clarified and said
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  Speaker 1: that that didn't happen. According to them, that is not
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  Speaker 1: something that occurred. And official sources are saying that the
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  Speaker 1: cause of the injury is private. and that they can't
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  Speaker 1: talk about what happened when it comes to inmates inside
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  Speaker 1: the facility. Now, I don't know if I buy that
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  Speaker 1: or not, but that's the official narrative. So, with that said,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we get updated and dive into this article
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  Speaker 1: from Deadline and see what's what. Headline, Diddy's Prison Head
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  Speaker 1: Injury Mystery Deepens. Fed deny fight with drug kingpin sent
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  Speaker 1: Grammy Award winner to the hospital. This article was authored
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  Speaker 1: by Dominic Patton. A dust-up with the drug lord was
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  Speaker 1: not what sent Sean Combs to the hospital with a
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  Speaker 1: head injury last week. The Bureau of Prisons insists. However,
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  Speaker 1: the actual cause of the injury and Combs' current status
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  Speaker 1: is under lock and key. Well, here's the thing. Christopher Koch, a.k.a. Dudas,
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  Speaker 1: just had another year tacked on to his sentence. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that could be a coincidence, right? Most certainly could be.
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  Speaker 1: But considering the high nature of what went down allegedly,
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  Speaker 1: I would think that you'd end up getting some more
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  Speaker 1: time for doing something like this. Now, there was no
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  Speaker 1: reason provided for that extension, but you have to think
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  Speaker 1: in the wake of what went down with Diddy that
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  Speaker 1: that might have played a role. So we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on that as well as far as
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  Speaker 1: what occurs with Mr. Koch and his punishment, right? That
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  Speaker 1: might give us some clues as to what went down
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  Speaker 1: with Diddy or what didn't go down with Diddy. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to wait for that to all shake out.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that we have to keep in mind is
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of secrecy when it comes to federal prison.
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  Speaker 1: Not a lot of things are available. They're not going
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  Speaker 1: to give you much information. And even if you hit
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  Speaker 1: them with FOIAs, they're very reticent to turn over information.
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  Speaker 1: They'll claim that it's, you know, security, privacy, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And look, that might be true. But it's also true
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  Speaker 1: that they don't want any outside eyes prying. While for privacy, safety,
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  Speaker 1: and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions
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  Speaker 1: of confinement for any individual in our custody, we can
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  Speaker 1: tell you that the story you are referring to is
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  Speaker 1: false and did not happen. Officials at FCI Fort Dix
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  Speaker 1: in Jersey say of reports by TMZ and others that
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  Speaker 1: Diddy got in a fight on October 9th with fellow
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  Speaker 1: inmate Christopher Koch. The reports claim that the alleged brawl
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  Speaker 1: was over the spotlight in cell sweeps, a recent NBC
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  Speaker 1: News expose on Combs' contraband and high living had brought
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  Speaker 1: down on the minimum security facility, and it's more than 4,200 residents. Look,
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  Speaker 1: that is certainly a way to get the big dog
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  Speaker 1: on campus, if you will, pissed off. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: have drug bosses in here, God knows who else, and
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  Speaker 1: they're running their businesses still. Don't think for a minute
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  Speaker 1: that these people don't have cell phones, access to the
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  Speaker 1: outside world, and access to anything that you or I have.
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  Speaker 1: They do. There's a lot of corruption when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the American Bureau of Prisons. And there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guards that are on the take. Now, that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean all of them are. That's certainly not the case.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of honest, hardworking people that work for
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  Speaker 1: the Bureau of Prisons. But there's some bad apples. And
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  Speaker 1: those people cause all kinds of chaos. I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: do you think cell phones get into the prison? How
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  Speaker 1: do you think drugs get in there? Any contraband? It's
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  Speaker 1: not all being stuffed, if you will, and being, you know,
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  Speaker 1: mulled in by people who go to the bathroom and
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  Speaker 1: remove the package, right? This stuff's being brought in by
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  Speaker 1: corrupt guards. And then they're getting profit from what gets sold.
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  Speaker 1: And that's been going on in the prison system for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time. And if you have somebody like
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  Speaker 1: Diddy that shows up and disrupts all of that, there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a lot of people that want to
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  Speaker 1: get some get back. Koch may not have been involved,
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  Speaker 1: but clearly something went down. because Combs was taken to
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  Speaker 1: a local hospital early on October 10th with something wrong
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  Speaker 1: with his noggin. You know, I was thinking that maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was one of Coke's guys. Like, Coke ordered the attack,
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  Speaker 1: and one of his henchmen carried it out. That's possible. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I had a hard time believing that Mr. Coke himself
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  Speaker 1: is going to put hands on Diddy, because that ends
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  Speaker 1: up getting him in big time trouble, right? Kind of
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  Speaker 1: hard to run your enterprise, your business, from the hole.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of these guys obviously don't want to
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  Speaker 1: end up in solitary. So I don't know if it
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  Speaker 1: was Coke himself who put his hands on Diddy, but
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  Speaker 1: somebody that was associated with Coke, that's very possible too.
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  Speaker 1: And again, look, we're just spitballing. We don't have all
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  Speaker 1: the information. Now I'm sure that information is going to
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  Speaker 1: come out. Somebody in the jail is going to talk
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to get the real story at some point.
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  Speaker 1: But right now it's still touch and go. He returned
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  Speaker 1: to Fort Dix about 12 hours later without stitches or
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  Speaker 1: any noticeable treatment, I'm told. Since then, the whole situation
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  Speaker 1: has gone on lockdown, literally and figuratively. And originally, when
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  Speaker 1: this story came across my desk, they were saying that
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  Speaker 1: he hit his head on the top bunk. You know,
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  Speaker 1: stood up, hit his head, had to go to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: But now we got this other story that Diddy got
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  Speaker 1: his ass beat. So I think that somewhere in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of all of that is the truth. What that
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  Speaker 1: truth is, well, I have no idea. Convicted by an
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  Speaker 1: NYC jury of two counts of transportation to engage in
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  Speaker 1: prostitution in July of 2025 at the end of a
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  Speaker 1: lurid and violence-detailing trial, Combs was sentenced in September 2025
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  Speaker 1: to a 50-month stint, with time served. With a release
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  Speaker 1: date that has gone back and forth since, Diddy currently
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to be released on March 2nd, 2028. So look,
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  Speaker 1: he's probably gonna get that Date, right? He's probably going
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  Speaker 1: to get out right around then. Now, it might get
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  Speaker 1: moved a little bit, one month here, one month there.
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  Speaker 1: But I think at this point, that's around the time
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  Speaker 1: you can expect Diddy coming home. It's extremely rare for
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  Speaker 1: the BOP to reveal anything about a prisoner, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how high profile they are. Yet in the Combs case
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  Speaker 1: and leaks about what went down last week, it seems
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  Speaker 1: some information or misinformation allegedly was coming from inside Fort
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  Speaker 1: Dix and officials felt compelled And that's exactly what you
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  Speaker 1: should expect from the BOP. Like I was saying earlier,
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  Speaker 1: they very rarely give out any kind of information. Not
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  Speaker 1: something they're into doing. Because they don't want to open
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  Speaker 1: themselves up to legal trouble, right? They don't want people
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  Speaker 1: suing them, they don't want family members going after them,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't want the situation to mushroom and get
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  Speaker 1: out of control. So the policy is, keep your mouth shut.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, even those close to Combs have little information
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  Speaker 1: I've learned. We appreciate the BOP's clarification, which confirms our
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  Speaker 1: concerns about the accuracy of the initial reports. Combs spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: Judah Engelmeyer told Deadline on Thursday. I wonder if Judah Engelmeyer...
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  Speaker 1: is related to Judge Engelmeyer. Be an interesting link, huh?
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  Speaker 1: We have not independently verified the circumstances surrounding the alleged incident,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want to speculate about what may or
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  Speaker 1: may not have happened. At this point, we have not
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  Speaker 1: verified information indicating that Sean was attacked by Christopher Koch
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  Speaker 1: or anyone else, or that he sustained injuries. So, kind
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  Speaker 1: of clouded, right? Two competing storylines. Did Diddy get attacked
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  Speaker 1: or didn't he? Did he have an accident? Did he fall?
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  Speaker 1: Did he hit his head? Or was he attacked by
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Coke or somebody else? And as of right now,
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  Speaker 1: we just don't have that information. Combs has been in
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  Speaker 1: solitary confinement since images of him with a smuggled in
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  Speaker 1: smartphone and other luxuries were made public. Stuck in the shoe,
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  Speaker 1: special housing unit as it's termed, Combs has very limited
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  Speaker 1: communication with the outside world. That communication is limited by
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  Speaker 1: design and by choice it seems. Yeah, once you're in solitary,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're locked down basically. Now, of course, you
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  Speaker 1: have some rights still. You're going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: go eat. You got to go out every now and then.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're in solitary, there's a reason. More times
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  Speaker 1: than not, you've broken the rules and now you're being punished.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it like being grounded when you're a kid.
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  Speaker 1: You got to go to your room. Got to go
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  Speaker 1: to your room now. You're grounded for a week. Same
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  Speaker 1: kind of deal. Over the past week, Diddy has not
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  Speaker 1: used the daily call he's permitted to touch base with
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  Speaker 1: his attorneys, nor has he contacted other reps from Solitary.
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  Speaker 1: Because 56-year-old Combs is over 18, the Bureau of Prisons
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  Speaker 1: is not required to pass along any info to anyone
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  Speaker 1: about him. To put it simply, if Combs wants someone,
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  Speaker 1: anyone to know what's going on, it's his call to make.
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  Speaker 1: So that's interesting too. Maybe Diddy's embarrassed. Maybe he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want anyone knowing that he got his ass beat That'll
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  Speaker 1: kind of damage the image, right? The tough guy image
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  Speaker 1: that he tries to broadcast. Can't be getting your ass
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  Speaker 1: beat if you're some kind of tough guy. The Bad
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  Speaker 1: Boy Records founder has not been making that call. The
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  Speaker 1: mitigating factor might be when he's released from the shoe.
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  Speaker 1: Unless there's another incident, Combs will be in solitary confinement
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  Speaker 1: for at least one more week, sources say. So that
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  Speaker 1: has to do with the contraband, right? It has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with this fight. Now, if he gets some
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  Speaker 1: time added onto it, that might give us a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more of an idea of what went down. In
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  Speaker 1: the free world, and having failed to secure a pardon
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  Speaker 1: from old party pal Donald Trump, Combs is pursuing a
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  Speaker 1: fast-track appeal of his case. At the same time, the
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  Speaker 1: much-accused three-time Grammy winner is battling multiple civil suits and
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  Speaker 1: a possible sexual battery indictment by the LA district attorney.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's something I've been keeping an eye on. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that Diddy might be in some jeopardy. I
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  Speaker 1: think that it's going to be some very dangerous waters,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, for Diddy when it comes to this
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  Speaker 1: possible indictment. Now that doesn't mean that it's definitely going
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  Speaker 1: to go down, but I think they have enough information
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  Speaker 1: and they're building a pretty strong case. Now keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: they had a pretty strong case against Diddy when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the trafficking and Rico as well, and we
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  Speaker 1: see how that ended up. So there's nothing that's a guarantee.
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  Speaker 1: But it's certainly something that's troubling for Diddy, without a doubt.
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  Speaker 1: After a trial in the summer of 2025, the Southern
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  Speaker 1: District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office fell far short
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  Speaker 1: in its efforts to convince a Manhattan jury that Combs
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  Speaker 1: was guilty of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges. If
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  Speaker 1: Combs had been found guilty in the trial, full of
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  Speaker 1: film sex parties and freak-offs, Cassie Ventura beating, drug binges, threats,
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  Speaker 1: exploding cars, and allegedly hanging people off of balconies, the
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  Speaker 1: one-time mini-mogul could have received a life sentence. And look,
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  Speaker 1: that was certainly something that was on the table. The
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  Speaker 1: problem was, the prosecution couldn't get it done. Not having
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  Speaker 1: Coram come in, you know, we talked about this a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, but not having her up on the stand
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  Speaker 1: was a big deal. If you're going to say a
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  Speaker 1: guy's running a Rico enterprise, then you have to bring
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  Speaker 1: charges against other people, the co-conspirators, the captains, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: And we didn't see that. And not only that, they
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  Speaker 1: lost one of the accusers and her testimony. She decided
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't going to testify. And that was a big shot.
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  Speaker 1: And that really helped Diddy's defense out a whole lot.
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  Speaker 1: And we see what the end result was. So when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Diddy, and charges against them, especially the
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  Speaker 1: second time around, they better have things locked in. But
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  Speaker 1: as far as what happened to Diddy in this prison,
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  Speaker 1: we just don't know yet. So we'll keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: on it, and when we get some updates, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: those added to the catalog as well. All the information
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