Billy McFarland

Comedian Eddie Griffin has called Sean ' Diddy ' Combs a dead man and said he won't leave prison alive as he awaits trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. The rapper is accused of forcing women into 'elaborate and produced sex performances', described as 'freak offs' and will now have to serve time in a New York City prison once described as 'Hell on Earth' after a judge denied his bail last week. Combs, 54, will be serving pretrial detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn - notoriously plagued by suicides and murders, and once home to fellow disgraced rapper R. Kelly , convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, and fraudster Billy McFarland. But speaking out on the rapper's arrest and spate of charges, Eddie Griffin has warned Combs will likely not survive his time in the infamous prison. Taking to his YouTube channel on Monday, the comedian likened the situation to that of Jeffrey Epstein - the disgraced American financier and pedophile who died while jailed and awaiting a federal sex trafficking trial in 2021.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs, 54, (pictured main) was remanded into federal custody as he awaits trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, and will now be serving pretrial detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn (inset). The facility has become the Big Apple's primary federal detention center since 2021, when the Bureau of Prisons shuttered its sister prison in Manhattan - where child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein died - over its appalling conditions. But the Brooklyn facility - which previously housed fellow disgraced rapper R. Kelly , Ghislaine Maxwell , Martin Shkreli, Allison Mack and Billy McFarland - has similarly been plagued by chronic understaffing, constant lockdowns, outbreaks of violence and a rash of suicides and deaths.

The original 2017 Fyre Festival was a disaster. Instead of the 'luxury villas' advertised, guests sheltered in disaster relief tents, and the 'gourmet meals' turned out to be packaged sandwiches.Thirty-three performers pulled out at the last moment. The young man behind it, Billy McFarland, ended up owing $26million to investors. He was sentenced to six years in prison for fraud. Now free, McFarland has announced a second Fyre Festival next April. It says it will be on an island off the coast of Mexico. Tickets range from $1,400 at the low end to $1.1million for a package, including luxury yachting and scuba diving. He remains hazy about the acts for the comeback festival, though they may include 'Karate Combat on the beach' as well as 'comedy' and 'fashion'. But no worries! I have come up with the perfect bill for Fyre Festival II. With a line-up like this, what could possibly go wrong?