SEAN “Diddy” Combs has been heard on a prison call for the first time since his arrest as the disgraced music mogul turns 55 today inside an infamous New York prison.
The Bad Boy Records founder is marking his first birthday today since being arrested in September on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
In a video shared on Instagram by Combs’ son, 30-year-old Justin Dior, Diddy is heard on a phone call for the first time since he was incarcerated in September.
Combs is heard telling his children he is proud of them all and says he is “looking forward to seeing them soon.”
His daughter Love, two; siblings D’Lila and Jessie, 17; Christian, 27; Quincy, 33; and Justin all sing happy birthday to Combs in the video.
Sounding upbeat, Combs says “I love y’all, I can’t wait to see y’all. I’m proud of y’all, especially the girls, all of y’all, but just for being strong, thank you for being strong.
“Thank you for being by my side and supporting me, I got the best family in the world.”
He adds, “My birthday, I’m happy for you giving me this call, I’ll see you in a couple of days.”
After his youngest daughter Love tells her father she loves him, Combs responds by saying, “I love you too, baby.”
Combs’ 18-year-old daughter Chance was not present in the clip, but spoke to her father via a video call.
“Hey Chance, love you baby,” Combs tells the teenager.
It comes as Combs’ austere birthday meal behind bars was revealed.
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While Combs’ previous birthdays have been marked with lavish parties, A-list celebrities, and the best food and drink money can buy, this year’s event will be a much quieter affair.
Breakfast at Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center is a far cry from the luxurious banquets the producer had grown accustomed to.
Instead, his options include biscuits and gravy, oven-browned potatoes, bread, and oatmeal, as revealed by the New York Post.
Last month, Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo said that “the food’s probably the roughest part,” of his client’s time in jail.
However, he does get better options at lunch, when inmates have the choice of cheese pizza, Italian pasta salad, and green beans, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
That meal is served at 11 am.
His birthday dinner options are either chicken or tofu fried rice with black beans and carrots.
Dinner is served at 4 pm.
Combs was arrested at a New York hotel on September 16 on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
He was denied bail several times and must stay in his high-profile prison ahead of his trial, which is set for May 5, 2025.
The producer behind many of the 1990s’ biggest hits is accused of forcing victims to take part in “Freak Offs” – elaborate sex parties that Combs is alleged to have arranged, directed, filmed, and pleasured himself to.
Victims were allegedly drugged beforehand, and prosecutors claim Diddy used footage of the parties as blackmail material.
He is also accused of threatening and intimidating victims with guns when they wouldn’t go along with him.
Federal raids of Combs’ properties in Miami and Los Angeles this year reportedly turned up 100s of bottles of baby oil, sex toys, cameras, and a number of weapons with their serial numbers illegally removed.
Combs has denied the accusations and pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.
Recent lawsuits against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Sean “Diddy
- November 17, 2023: Cassie, Combs’ longtime girlfriend, sued him, claiming she endured “a cycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking” until their relationship ended in 2018. Combs and Cassie settled the suit the day after it was filed.
- Combs was hit with two more lawsuits a week after he settled with Cassie.
- November 23, 2023: Joi Dickerson accused Combs of drugging and raping her and filming the attack when she was a 19-year-old college student in January 1991.
- November 24, 2023: A second unidentified accuser in a separate lawsuit claimed that Combs and another man sexually assaulted her and a friend in 1990 or 1991, then showed up at her apartment and beat her several days later.
- December 6, 2023: Combs was sued again by an unidentified woman who claimed he and two men gang-raped her in 2003 when she was 17 years old.
- February 26, 2024: Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, who helped produce Combs’ most recent album, claimed that the mogul sexually harassed, drugged, and threatened him from September 2022 to November 2023 as they worked together.
- May 21, 2024: Model Crystal McKinney accused Combs of sexually assaulting her after meeting at a Men’s Fashion Week event in New York City in 2003. McKinney claims she was drinking alcohol and smoking weed with Combs and several of his colleagues when she took a hit off a joint that she claims was laced with another drug. McKinney claims she felt woozy, and Combs ordered her to the bathroom, where he allegedly forced her to perform oral sex on him.
- May 23, 2024: April Lampros, 51, claimed in her lawsuit that she met Sean Combs in New York City in 1994 while attending the Fashion Institute of Technology. Combs is accused of drugging and raping Lampros in a hotel after promising to help mentor her in the fashion industry.
- July 3, 2024: Adria English, an ex-porn star who went by Omunique, accused Combs of grooming her into sex trafficking in the early 2000s, according to TMZ.
- September 24, 2024: Thalia Graves sued Combs, alleging he and his former bodyguard, Joseph Sherman, violently raped her at the Bad Boy Records studio in New York City in 2001. Graves, who was 25 at the time, said Combs offered her a glass of wine, which made her feel “lightheaded, dizzy, and physically weak” before losing consciousness. Graves alleged when she awoke, she found herself tied up and restrained while Combs and Sherman raped her.
