It wasn't long ago that Sean "Diddy" Combs—whose landmark debut album is titled No Way Out—and Sam Bankman-Fried were at the top of their respective worlds: Combs, one of the most successful rappers and producers of his era, and Bankman-Fried a multi-billionaire founder of the crypto exchange FTX. Both of their lives, though, took a dark turn, and now the two disgraced celebrities have something else in common: a shared prison dormitory in a notorious Brooklyn detention center, according to a source familiar who spoke with Fortune on the condition of anonymity. The New York Times and NBC first reported the news.
Sam Bankman-Fried has been an inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center since August 2023, when a federal judge revoked his bail after he leaked diary entries from his former employee and one-time girlfriend Caroline Ellison to the New York Times. Bankman-Fried faced trial for the collapse of FTX, which at one time was valued at over $30 billion.
