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Charlucci Finney alleged to the Daily Mail on Wednesday that the embattled music mogul “woke up with a knife to his throat” in his Metropolitan Detention Center jail cell. “I don’t know whether he fought him off or the guards came,” Finney, who has known Combs for more than 30 years, claimed to the outlet without specifying when this allegedly took place. “I just know that it happened.” He speculated that the frightening encounter was meant more as a threat than an actual attempt to hurt Combs. MORE: ‘Freak off’: Diddy cops $50m insult in major blow “If this guy had wanted to harm him, Sean would have been harmed,” Finney said. “It would only take a second to cut his throat with a weapon and kill him. “It was probably a way to say: ‘Next time you ain’t gonna be so lucky,’” he added. “Everything is intimidation. But with Sean it won’t work. Sean is from Harlem.” Finney called his 55-year-old pal “unbreakable,” praising the Grammy winner as a “loveable caregiver, a father, brother [and] best friend.” He added, “I’m confident he’s gonna do whatever it takes to make sure he’s still Sean Combs when he comes out.” Combs’ legal team did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment. The Bad Boy Records creator has been in the Brooklyn prison since his September 2024 arrest for sex trafficking, racketeering and prostitution charges. Combs was convicted in July of the following year of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Last month, he was sentenced to four years and two months in federal prison. Additionally, Combs was ordered to participate in programs for mental health and substance abuse issues, as well as pay a $500,000 fine to the court. His lawyers had previously pushed for a near-immediate release on the grounds that Combs “served over a year in one of the most notorious jails in America” and “made the most of that punishment.” In a September filing, Combs’ attorneys claimed the songwriter had been on “constant suicide watch” in jail — and approached by a fellow inmate with a makeshift shiv blade. After the individual accused Combs of sitting in his chair, the Coming Home rapper talked the man down, his legal team claimed. Combs submitted a letter to the judge at his October sentencing trial, arguing that he is sober and “no longer running from [his] mistakes.” While 75 of Combs’ loved ones also submitted character letters in his defence, ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura pleaded for a sentence that takes into account the “horrific decade of [her] life stained by abuse, violence, forced sex and degradation.” The former couple dated on and off from 2007 to 2018, with Ventura testifying about their time together at Combs’ May trial while pregnant with her and husband Alex Fine‘s third child. In her letter, the 39-year-old wrote that she is “so scared” of experiencing retribution upon Combs’ release over her bombshell testimony. “As much progress as I have made in recovering from his abuse, I remain very much afraid of what he is capable of and the malice he undoubtedly harbours towards me for having the bravery to tell the truth,” she wrote. This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission
