Brooklyn’s grim Metropolitan detention center (MDC) is now for the foreseeable future home to Diddy, AKA Sean Combs, one of the most well-known voices in American entertainment whose business empire once seemed to know no bounds.
The MDC is 5 miles (8km) from the public housing projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant where Combs’s biggest Bad Boy Records star, Biggie Smalls, grew up, but more than 20 miles from the middle-class suburb of Mount Vernon, where Combs himself was raised.