is not bothered by joining him behind bars in New York City.
Multiple outlets reported on Tuesday, January 7, that Diddy, 55, was upset about the attention Mangione, 26, had taken from him inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
However, a source close to Diddy denied the idea that he was jealous of Mangione. “This story has been completely made up, and there is no truth [to] it,” the insider exclusively told Us Weekly.
Mangione, who is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO , arrived in New York from Pennsylvania in December 2024 to be arraigned on federal murder charges. (Mangione has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of murder, including murder as an act of terrorism.)
Mangione is now housed at the same jail where Diddy has been since being arrested in September 2024 on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. (He has denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to the charges.)
Diddy was previously reported to be in the same housing unit as convicted cryptocurrency fraudster . Convicted sex offenders and and NXIVM sex cult leader have also spent time at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
Besides residing in the same jail, Diddy and Mangione also share another connection — their lawyers. News broke in December 2024 that Mangione hired to represent him. The attorney is married to , who is involved in Diddy’s case.
A spokesperson for Friedman Agnifilo’s firm, Agnifilo Intrater LLP, confirmed to Us that she was retained to represent Mangione in New York. Friedman Agnifilo will “not be making any statements at this time,” the spokesperson told Us at the time.
Since Diddy entered the notoriously dangerous jail, Agnifilo has expressed concerns about his client’s safety.
“The food is inedible, from what I’ve been told,” Agnifilo said in a September 2024 interview after Diddy was denied bail, adding, “It’s violent. Someone like Mr. Combs might be a target for certain things. We can’t let that happen.” (A judge denied Diddy bail in four separate appeals.)
While Us is unaware of the conditions of the Metropolitan Detention Center, several former inmates spoke out about their experiences in an October 2024 cover story.
“It’s a terrible, horrible place,” an inmate who spent three months in the jail in 2019 told Us. “There’s no air movement, and the food is slop.”
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