The staggering fall of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs – from music mogul to criminal charges

Combs's business empire once seemed to know no bounds. Now he faces abuse allegations and a string of charges

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.