Oct. 15, 2026
Diddy Vs The Drug Lord: Fort Dix’s Most Famous Prisoner Clashes With Its Most Notorious
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The head injury that landed Sean “Diddy” Combs in the hospital reportedly came from a fight with a fellow inmate, but not just any inmate. Diddy reportedly got a beatdown from notorious Jamaican drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke who has an entire Netflix episode devoted to him and his life of crime. The fight apparently broke out because Coke, along with several other inmates, were angry after prison officials conducted several raids following the NBC report exposing Diddy’s privileged prison life.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, October 15th, and I know Diddy was supposed to be a bad mother on the outside, but he might need to pick on somebody his own size on the inside. Yeah, Suge Knight ain't got nothing on Christopher Dudas Coke. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ, a beef between Diddy and Suge Knight. No, no, no, no, no, no. You're messing with the wrong dude. Now, Robes, I cannot believe when we found out who Diddy just got in a fight with.
00:00:34
Speaker 2: This is so funny because I have been totally into this story. Diddy gets a head injury. He's rushed to the hospital. There's some sort of fight in the prison. You're kind of rolling your eyes like, whatever, it's a Monday at Fort Dick's. But then when it came out, TMZ is reporting that the inmate Sean Diddy Combs got into a fight with is a notorious Jamaican drug lord. I was not familiar with this person. As soon as you heard his name, you suddenly became fascinated with what is happening at Fortex.
00:01:07
Speaker 1: It's a weird thing to say. This guy is almost drug lord royalty. He literally was born and raised and brought up and taught to be a gangster. And yes, I know, there's a bunch of documentaries out there about Diddy. Christopher Coke got one about him as well.
00:01:27
Speaker 2: Yes, and we watched it today. I have to say, this story has spawned a whole new level of interest from me about this drug lord series on Netflix that I didn't even know existed. As soon as I said his name, you were like, boom, you put it on. And I have learned so much today. I'm curious because, look, I was not that familiar. I mean, yes, I knew some of Diddy's music, but I wasn't the fan you were coming up. Diddy puts off, obviously, this gangster personality, right? And he's in prison and all this stuff. But compare Diddy's level of gangster to Christopher Dudas Coke's level of gangster.
00:02:06
Speaker 1: Think back to videos from the early 90s when Diddy was dancing with a Gumby haircut. I'm saying that guy, while he was in his teens and early 20s, still hip-hop dancing. Puff Daddy? Yeah, Puff Daddy.
00:02:22
Speaker 2: Hanging out with J-Lo?
00:02:22
Speaker 1: Puffy and whatever all his names were. This dude was five years old learning how to be a gangster. Learning how to kill. This guy is other level. And to think, Rose, we talk about Diddy versus Suge Knight talking trash at the Hip Hop Awards, the Source Awards. Y'all gonna talk trash? Y'all ain't got nothing on this dude.
00:02:46
Speaker 2: So Diddy's in over his head.
00:02:48
Speaker 1: With this guy? Way, way. Rose, you watched the documentary, didn't you?
00:02:54
Speaker 2: It opened with someone torturing another human being with a chainsaw. Yes. That's how the documentary opened on Christopher Coke.
00:03:05
Speaker 1: This guy was close, Robes, to turning Jamaica into a narco state. This guy literally went to war with authorities in Jamaica. To the point, Robes, they had to take more definitive action because he was a threat to take over Jamaica. Come on, Diddy. Come on, Diddy's got to know better.
00:03:30
Speaker 2: So now you've got Diddy coming into Fort Dix, and he's got all the cameras. He's the most famous inmate by far in that prison. But now he's made an enemy of the most notorious inmate in that prison. Do you think it's fair to say he is almost certainly the most notorious inmate in that prison?
00:03:47
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know another one. How about that? And Diddy is not notorious. He's known.
00:03:52
Speaker 2: He's famous.
00:03:54
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:03:55
Speaker 2: Maybe he's infamous, but he's not notorious.
00:03:57
Speaker 1: He is not the baddest dude on the block. What are you in for? I murdered five people. What are you in for? Transportation for prostitution. Okay, they're not intimidated.
00:04:08
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. I got even more interest when I saw your ears perk up and your eyes get wide as saucers when you heard who the dude was that Diddy allegedly got into a fight with. Okay, so here's what we know from TMC. There was this, obviously we know that Diddy was rushed to the hospital and that's how it was described, that he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance around 1 a.m. in the morning over the weekend and after a reported fight. He had a head injury. Obviously, it's not life-threatening. They say when they brought him back, he was talking and coherent. So it's not as if he was knocked unconscious, or at least by the time he came back, he was okay. Who knows what happened at the time? But the reports coming from the prison are that Christopher Koch was upset, along with many other prisoners, that they lost their shit. Because Of the report from NBC, this was... When was that report? It was in August, I believe, saying that Diddy had some posh prison life, and he was living it up, and... He had contraband. He had inmates who were making him special meals. They were providing maid service. They gave him a cell phone where he was looking at nudes, apparently, and watching his own documentary, or the documentary that was made about him, that he was drinking fancy liquor, cognac and Hennessy. Okay, so that report.
00:05:32
Speaker 1: Just on the weekends.
00:05:33
Speaker 2: Just on the weekends, right, yeah.
00:05:34
Speaker 1: The good stuff on the weekends.
00:05:35
Speaker 2: Right, just the good stuff on the weekends. But that report had led to several raids. Of all the inmates. So now you've got Christopher Coke lost his cell phone. He lost his contraband, along with several other prisoners. And whose fault is it?
00:05:51
Speaker 1: Diddy.
00:05:52
Speaker 2: Sean Diddy Combs. That does make sense. Now, we reported that Diddy was put in solitary confinement when that NBC report came out as... prison officials started investigating exactly what was going on. But, so how did he get into a fight when he's in solitary? You get like a daily break, right? They were waiting for him.
00:06:21
Speaker 1: They were waiting on him. They were waiting for a moment to have with him. I wonder how much time he gets outside. Couldn't be more than an hour?
00:06:28
Speaker 2: I would think an hour would be it. I mean, so yes, this fight reportedly went down when Diddy was out of solitary confinement for his daily break, and then he left in an ambulance so doing this deep dive on christopher dudas coke i learned a lot is the name dudas uh he is season two episode three if you'd like to check it out on netflix and yes of.
00:06:52
Speaker 1: Drug lords is the name of the series they go through el chapo they go through some of the big names but there are also some you wouldn't know um but yeah it is a fantastic series so well.
00:07:01
Speaker 2: Done And to your point, yes, he was born into this role. He's 57 now. He's serving a 23-year sentence, by the way, cocaine, marijuana distribution, specifically in 2011. He pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon in the aid of racketeering. So those are his official convictions. Mm-hmm. His release date, interestingly, January 28th, 2029. So about a year after Diddy gets out.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: Right?
00:07:35
Speaker 2: I was thinking, if he's that angry, who knows? I mean, they're getting out within a year of each other.
00:07:41
Speaker 1: This guy got a 23-year sentence, and this is the timing of it now? Yep. Isn't that crazy? Yep.
00:07:46
Speaker 2: And so he was known as the leader of the Shower Posse.
00:07:49
Speaker 1: Were you?
00:07:49
Speaker 2: I had never heard of the Shower Posse before. Had you?
00:07:53
Speaker 1: I didn't know if they were a... Something that was known. But this was before our time, if you will, covering kind of news. But no, I only knew of it from watching documentaries.
00:08:00
Speaker 2: Okay, so as you point out, his father, Lester Cook, was the Don. He literally founded the Shower Posse. And there's a lot of speculation as to why they have their name, but most people believe it's a theory or it's a reference to the fact that the gang showers their opponents with bullets. That would make a lot of sense. And so... He inherited, he became the boss, the don, the leader, the CEO of the Shower Posse in Jamaica. And they, as you pointed out, literally were in charge of all of the cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, all the distribution back and forth between Jamaica and the United States. And the feds had been after him for a while.
00:08:43
Speaker 1: You know, he wanted to come to the United States. He was going to be facing... a lot worse stuff in Jamaica possibly. The damage he is known to have done there goes way beyond a 23-year sentence.
00:08:57
Speaker 2: He's probably safer in the United States, right? But yes, hearing one of the federal officials who transported him from Kingston, Jamaica to the United States was talking about what it was like, the armed guards, just this, it was like a scene out of a movie to get him safely out of Jamaica into the United States custody to bring him To New York to face charges. It's wild.
00:09:23
Speaker 1: And Robes, at the end of the documentary, it's quite hilarious to see how he was trying to make an escape, actually, from Jamaica when all this stuff was going down. The picture is hard to describe, but this is a hardened, hardened criminal accused of killing scores of people and doing all these drugs, being a bad dude. He tried to escape, Robes, by wearing a disguise. A wig.
00:09:48
Speaker 2: A wig.
00:09:49
Speaker 1: A very cheap woman's wig, and some ridiculous glasses and a hat. And the guy who just beat up Diddy and sent him to the hospital, there is a ridiculous... picture of him. Robes, he looks like a black Mrs. Doubtfire. He looks insane.
00:10:07
Speaker 2: Kind of like you when you dressed up as Medea for Halloween.
00:10:10
Speaker 1: No, I looked better. I looked better. No, no, no, no. I stopped and thought about it. No, no, no. You did.
00:10:15
Speaker 2: You actually took that as a serious question and considered before you answered. But this is how the prosecutor who went after him described Christopher Koch. For nearly two decades, Christopher Koch led a ruthless criminal enterprise that used fear. force and intimidation to support its drug and arms trafficking business. He moved drugs and guns between Jamaica and the U.S. with impunity. This is a dude who operated one of the most dangerous, ruthless groups in the world. And Diddy got his head bashed in by him.
00:10:49
Speaker 1: My goodness. The guy's... Now, you think as well, Robes, he is getting close to his date of release. Dudas. Christopher Koch. How pissed is he to risk adding to his time if he's been there 23 years?
00:11:05
Speaker 2: And I'm just curious where he's going. Because if his life is in jeopardy in Jamaica, is he allowed to stay here? We brought him here to face charges. Do we deport him? Can he stay in the United States? That's all unclear.
00:11:20
Speaker 1: He's out of here. There's no way. Yeah, he's never gotten U.S. citizenship.
00:11:24
Speaker 2: So they'll send him back, straight back to Jamaica. And then just, I guess Diddy should avoid vacationing in Jamaica and everything should be fine.
00:11:32
Speaker 1: Stick to Turks.
00:11:33
Speaker 2: He does like Turks and Caicos, doesn't he?
00:11:35
Speaker 1: He does.
00:11:36
Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we're gonna.
00:11:37
Speaker 1: Tell you what- Why do we know that about a man? That's ridiculous.
00:11:41
Speaker 2: Because it came up in trial.
00:11:42
Speaker 1: I know, but we know so much about his preferences.
00:11:46
Speaker 2: We know too much.
00:11:47
Speaker 1: Yes, we do.
00:11:47
Speaker 2: We know way too much. And by the way, all those inmates do too. I don't know how that is received in prison. Just the freaky, the freak-offs. How is that received by other inmates, hardened criminals like Christopher Koch? What do they think of someone like Diddy?
00:12:03
Speaker 1: I hear some wild stories about what happens in prison. And maybe he's welcomed. Yes.
00:12:09
Speaker 2: Maybe it's just some fresh meat.
00:12:13
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if they allowed him to direct a movie from prison?
00:12:16
Speaker 2: So my brain was going there, too. That's so sad that we both went there. When we come back, we're going to tell you what Diddy's reps have said about all of this, what the Bureau of Prisons are saying. And, yeah, what's next for Sean Diddy Combs? Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. A wild story is unfolding coming out of Fort Dix, New Jersey, where Sean Diddy Combs is housed alongside a notorious Jamaican drug lord, and apparently the two of them came to blows, and it looks like Diddy didn't win.
00:13:00
Speaker 1: You know, how is it described? Just a fight, an attack? Well, they were kind of in waiting for him.
00:13:05
Speaker 2: Sounds like they were lying in wait. And that's how it's described. And look, we don't know just how much damage was done, just how bad it was. But to have prison officials rush him in an ambulance at 1 o'clock in the morning, they must have been slightly concerned.
00:13:20
Speaker 1: And you know what? I bet this was a VIP treatment situation. We let Diddy get killed in our prisons?
00:13:29
Speaker 2: That would not be a story that the Bureau of Prisons or certainly anyone involved in guarding said prisoners, heads would roll and that would be actually worst case scenario. So yes, he was rushed to the hospital by, these are all coming from sources and multiple outlets have this. Obviously, there's no one officially from the prison involved. acknowledging all of this. In fact, the official statement from the prison is, for privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual, including quarter assignment or medical status.
00:14:04
Speaker 1: Safety is first.
00:14:07
Speaker 2: And privacy. They want to make sure they respect the privacy of the inmates.
00:14:11
Speaker 1: Privacy. Four interviews got out, at least, from your prison. Right?
00:14:15
Speaker 2: Exactly. People are talking. You just don't know who. Now, Diddy's reps put out this statement. We are aware of the reports concerning Sean Combs, and we are working to confirm the circumstances, Sean's health and well-being. are our immediate concern, and we appreciate everyone who has reached out.
00:14:33
Speaker 1: How does NBC and TMZ know, but his reps don't?
00:14:35
Speaker 2: Right, well, they're just not talking, right? Yes, and People Magazine, too, has confirmed plenty. So, yes, we've got journalists probably just stationed outside of Fort Dix for any slight bubble. But there has been. I mean, it's been eventful. There has been quite a few news reports that have come out of there because this isn't Diddy's first fight. He had a fight with another inmate, just an unnamed inmate, back in July.
00:14:58
Speaker 1: Remember? What was that one about, though?
00:15:00
Speaker 2: We don't know what the beef was. Oh, the word is that someone dissed him. So he was protecting his reputation. And so, yes.
00:15:11
Speaker 1: Dee, you got 50 months, brother, and you were looking at life. Chill out.
00:15:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, right?
00:15:17
Speaker 1: Like, brother, what did he keep saying to that judge to let him out? Gonna be different. Gonna help men in prison. Gonna be an inspiration. This, hey man, I thought the judge should give him a break. That judge knew what he was doing.
00:15:32
Speaker 2: He was inspiring prisoners to use your power for privilege and continue to do what you were doing outside of prison, looking at nudes and watching documentaries, drinking, sipping Hennessy. But he is back in solitary confinement, according to all the outlets. And reportedly, both he and Christopher Koch Each received two weeks. He got two weeks extra for the fight in solitary. So right now they say Christopher Coke's in the hole and Diddy's in the hole.
00:16:06
Speaker 1: Look at you getting the lingo down. Right?
00:16:07
Speaker 2: You know, I'm feeling cool after just learning all this stuff that I didn't even know. I didn't even know Christopher Coke's name before this. But it was really... I got a kick out of seeing how much you knew about him already.
00:16:18
Speaker 1: Dudas. Dudas. No, he is legendary.
00:16:22
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:16:22
Speaker 1: He really is. You've watched it. There was hierarchy. Oh, yeah. Like his dad died, and then his brother moved up to take the crown. Brother died, then he moved up to, right?
00:16:36
Speaker 2: It's like the mafia.
00:16:36
Speaker 1: It's fascinating.
00:16:37
Speaker 2: It was like the Jamaican Mafia, so to speak.
00:16:39
Speaker 1: And to think, we listen and follow and watch the whole Diddy case. He ends up in the hospital and prison, and that's the guy that sent him there? You can't make this stuff up.
00:16:50
Speaker 2: I mean, it would be fascinating if Diddy were to talk about it when he gets out. I mean, I bet you he has so many stories. Oh, my. Maybe he'll rap about it.
00:17:02
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll just sit down. You got four years and you could have gotten life. Sit down. Just go sit down, Diddy. Don't have somebody make you sit down like Dudas or the next prosecutor. Just sit down. I know, baby. I wouldn't imagine how difficult it is and reputations and how you got to be tough and how you got in prison. I can't imagine, baby. I cannot imagine.
00:17:28
Speaker 2: Don't ever want to have to actually understand.
00:17:30
Speaker 1: But my God, Diddy.
00:17:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, so all of this Now, his release date, it had moved all the way up to January 21st, 2028. It's now moved back to March 2nd. And that's all we know in terms of official punishment alongside the solitary confinement. But 10 months, if his date stays at March 2nd, 2028, it'll probably move around a little bit. But give or take, 10 months later, Christopher Coke will also be a free man.
00:17:59
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's going to throw him a going-away party in prison. Oh, no. See you on the outside.
00:18:07
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that just be so menacing? Just to leave that note, a little card. See you on the outside. Holy hell.
00:18:14
Speaker 1: He needs to make amends before he leaves. This dude is not that guy to be messing with.
00:18:18
Speaker 2: Hopefully he knows how to do that.
00:18:20
Speaker 1: Maybe he's changed his life and his ways. No, it doesn't sound like it because he just bashed Diddy's head in.
00:18:24
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like it. Oh, my goodness. All right, we'll keep our eye on this situation, but wanted to put it on your radar. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, October 15th, and I know Diddy was supposed to be a bad mother on the outside, but he might need to pick on somebody his own size on the inside. Yeah, Suge Knight ain't got nothing on Christopher Dudas Coke. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ, a beef between Diddy and Suge Knight. No, no, no, no, no, no. You're messing with the wrong dude. Now, Robes, I cannot believe when we found out who Diddy just got in a fight with.
00:00:34
Speaker 2: This is so funny because I have been totally into this story. Diddy gets a head injury. He's rushed to the hospital. There's some sort of fight in the prison. You're kind of rolling your eyes like, whatever, it's a Monday at Fort Dick's. But then when it came out, TMZ is reporting that the inmate Sean Diddy Combs got into a fight with is a notorious Jamaican drug lord. I was not familiar with this person. As soon as you heard his name, you suddenly became fascinated with what is happening at Fortex.
00:01:07
Speaker 1: It's a weird thing to say. This guy is almost drug lord royalty. He literally was born and raised and brought up and taught to be a gangster. And yes, I know, there's a bunch of documentaries out there about Diddy. Christopher Coke got one about him as well.
00:01:27
Speaker 2: Yes, and we watched it today. I have to say, this story has spawned a whole new level of interest from me about this drug lord series on Netflix that I didn't even know existed. As soon as I said his name, you were like, boom, you put it on. And I have learned so much today. I'm curious because, look, I was not that familiar. I mean, yes, I knew some of Diddy's music, but I wasn't the fan you were coming up. Diddy puts off, obviously, this gangster personality, right? And he's in prison and all this stuff. But compare Diddy's level of gangster to Christopher Dudas Coke's level of gangster.
00:02:06
Speaker 1: Think back to videos from the early 90s when Diddy was dancing with a Gumby haircut. I'm saying that guy, while he was in his teens and early 20s, still hip-hop dancing. Puff Daddy? Yeah, Puff Daddy.
00:02:22
Speaker 2: Hanging out with J-Lo?
00:02:22
Speaker 1: Puffy and whatever all his names were. This dude was five years old learning how to be a gangster. Learning how to kill. This guy is other level. And to think, Rose, we talk about Diddy versus Suge Knight talking trash at the Hip Hop Awards, the Source Awards. Y'all gonna talk trash? Y'all ain't got nothing on this dude.
00:02:46
Speaker 2: So Diddy's in over his head.
00:02:48
Speaker 1: With this guy? Way, way. Rose, you watched the documentary, didn't you?
00:02:54
Speaker 2: It opened with someone torturing another human being with a chainsaw. Yes. That's how the documentary opened on Christopher Coke.
00:03:05
Speaker 1: This guy was close, Robes, to turning Jamaica into a narco state. This guy literally went to war with authorities in Jamaica. To the point, Robes, they had to take more definitive action because he was a threat to take over Jamaica. Come on, Diddy. Come on, Diddy's got to know better.
00:03:30
Speaker 2: So now you've got Diddy coming into Fort Dix, and he's got all the cameras. He's the most famous inmate by far in that prison. But now he's made an enemy of the most notorious inmate in that prison. Do you think it's fair to say he is almost certainly the most notorious inmate in that prison?
00:03:47
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know another one. How about that? And Diddy is not notorious. He's known.
00:03:52
Speaker 2: He's famous.
00:03:54
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:03:55
Speaker 2: Maybe he's infamous, but he's not notorious.
00:03:57
Speaker 1: He is not the baddest dude on the block. What are you in for? I murdered five people. What are you in for? Transportation for prostitution. Okay, they're not intimidated.
00:04:08
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. I got even more interest when I saw your ears perk up and your eyes get wide as saucers when you heard who the dude was that Diddy allegedly got into a fight with. Okay, so here's what we know from TMC. There was this, obviously we know that Diddy was rushed to the hospital and that's how it was described, that he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance around 1 a.m. in the morning over the weekend and after a reported fight. He had a head injury. Obviously, it's not life-threatening. They say when they brought him back, he was talking and coherent. So it's not as if he was knocked unconscious, or at least by the time he came back, he was okay. Who knows what happened at the time? But the reports coming from the prison are that Christopher Koch was upset, along with many other prisoners, that they lost their shit. Because Of the report from NBC, this was... When was that report? It was in August, I believe, saying that Diddy had some posh prison life, and he was living it up, and... He had contraband. He had inmates who were making him special meals. They were providing maid service. They gave him a cell phone where he was looking at nudes, apparently, and watching his own documentary, or the documentary that was made about him, that he was drinking fancy liquor, cognac and Hennessy. Okay, so that report.
00:05:32
Speaker 1: Just on the weekends.
00:05:33
Speaker 2: Just on the weekends, right, yeah.
00:05:34
Speaker 1: The good stuff on the weekends.
00:05:35
Speaker 2: Right, just the good stuff on the weekends. But that report had led to several raids. Of all the inmates. So now you've got Christopher Coke lost his cell phone. He lost his contraband, along with several other prisoners. And whose fault is it?
00:05:51
Speaker 1: Diddy.
00:05:52
Speaker 2: Sean Diddy Combs. That does make sense. Now, we reported that Diddy was put in solitary confinement when that NBC report came out as... prison officials started investigating exactly what was going on. But, so how did he get into a fight when he's in solitary? You get like a daily break, right? They were waiting for him.
00:06:21
Speaker 1: They were waiting on him. They were waiting for a moment to have with him. I wonder how much time he gets outside. Couldn't be more than an hour?
00:06:28
Speaker 2: I would think an hour would be it. I mean, so yes, this fight reportedly went down when Diddy was out of solitary confinement for his daily break, and then he left in an ambulance so doing this deep dive on christopher dudas coke i learned a lot is the name dudas uh he is season two episode three if you'd like to check it out on netflix and yes of.
00:06:52
Speaker 1: Drug lords is the name of the series they go through el chapo they go through some of the big names but there are also some you wouldn't know um but yeah it is a fantastic series so well.
00:07:01
Speaker 2: Done And to your point, yes, he was born into this role. He's 57 now. He's serving a 23-year sentence, by the way, cocaine, marijuana distribution, specifically in 2011. He pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon in the aid of racketeering. So those are his official convictions. Mm-hmm. His release date, interestingly, January 28th, 2029. So about a year after Diddy gets out.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: Right?
00:07:35
Speaker 2: I was thinking, if he's that angry, who knows? I mean, they're getting out within a year of each other.
00:07:41
Speaker 1: This guy got a 23-year sentence, and this is the timing of it now? Yep. Isn't that crazy? Yep.
00:07:46
Speaker 2: And so he was known as the leader of the Shower Posse.
00:07:49
Speaker 1: Were you?
00:07:49
Speaker 2: I had never heard of the Shower Posse before. Had you?
00:07:53
Speaker 1: I didn't know if they were a... Something that was known. But this was before our time, if you will, covering kind of news. But no, I only knew of it from watching documentaries.
00:08:00
Speaker 2: Okay, so as you point out, his father, Lester Cook, was the Don. He literally founded the Shower Posse. And there's a lot of speculation as to why they have their name, but most people believe it's a theory or it's a reference to the fact that the gang showers their opponents with bullets. That would make a lot of sense. And so... He inherited, he became the boss, the don, the leader, the CEO of the Shower Posse in Jamaica. And they, as you pointed out, literally were in charge of all of the cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, all the distribution back and forth between Jamaica and the United States. And the feds had been after him for a while.
00:08:43
Speaker 1: You know, he wanted to come to the United States. He was going to be facing... a lot worse stuff in Jamaica possibly. The damage he is known to have done there goes way beyond a 23-year sentence.
00:08:57
Speaker 2: He's probably safer in the United States, right? But yes, hearing one of the federal officials who transported him from Kingston, Jamaica to the United States was talking about what it was like, the armed guards, just this, it was like a scene out of a movie to get him safely out of Jamaica into the United States custody to bring him To New York to face charges. It's wild.
00:09:23
Speaker 1: And Robes, at the end of the documentary, it's quite hilarious to see how he was trying to make an escape, actually, from Jamaica when all this stuff was going down. The picture is hard to describe, but this is a hardened, hardened criminal accused of killing scores of people and doing all these drugs, being a bad dude. He tried to escape, Robes, by wearing a disguise. A wig.
00:09:48
Speaker 2: A wig.
00:09:49
Speaker 1: A very cheap woman's wig, and some ridiculous glasses and a hat. And the guy who just beat up Diddy and sent him to the hospital, there is a ridiculous... picture of him. Robes, he looks like a black Mrs. Doubtfire. He looks insane.
00:10:07
Speaker 2: Kind of like you when you dressed up as Medea for Halloween.
00:10:10
Speaker 1: No, I looked better. I looked better. No, no, no, no. I stopped and thought about it. No, no, no. You did.
00:10:15
Speaker 2: You actually took that as a serious question and considered before you answered. But this is how the prosecutor who went after him described Christopher Koch. For nearly two decades, Christopher Koch led a ruthless criminal enterprise that used fear. force and intimidation to support its drug and arms trafficking business. He moved drugs and guns between Jamaica and the U.S. with impunity. This is a dude who operated one of the most dangerous, ruthless groups in the world. And Diddy got his head bashed in by him.
00:10:49
Speaker 1: My goodness. The guy's... Now, you think as well, Robes, he is getting close to his date of release. Dudas. Christopher Koch. How pissed is he to risk adding to his time if he's been there 23 years?
00:11:05
Speaker 2: And I'm just curious where he's going. Because if his life is in jeopardy in Jamaica, is he allowed to stay here? We brought him here to face charges. Do we deport him? Can he stay in the United States? That's all unclear.
00:11:20
Speaker 1: He's out of here. There's no way. Yeah, he's never gotten U.S. citizenship.
00:11:24
Speaker 2: So they'll send him back, straight back to Jamaica. And then just, I guess Diddy should avoid vacationing in Jamaica and everything should be fine.
00:11:32
Speaker 1: Stick to Turks.
00:11:33
Speaker 2: He does like Turks and Caicos, doesn't he?
00:11:35
Speaker 1: He does.
00:11:36
Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we're gonna.
00:11:37
Speaker 1: Tell you what- Why do we know that about a man? That's ridiculous.
00:11:41
Speaker 2: Because it came up in trial.
00:11:42
Speaker 1: I know, but we know so much about his preferences.
00:11:46
Speaker 2: We know too much.
00:11:47
Speaker 1: Yes, we do.
00:11:47
Speaker 2: We know way too much. And by the way, all those inmates do too. I don't know how that is received in prison. Just the freaky, the freak-offs. How is that received by other inmates, hardened criminals like Christopher Koch? What do they think of someone like Diddy?
00:12:03
Speaker 1: I hear some wild stories about what happens in prison. And maybe he's welcomed. Yes.
00:12:09
Speaker 2: Maybe it's just some fresh meat.
00:12:13
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if they allowed him to direct a movie from prison?
00:12:16
Speaker 2: So my brain was going there, too. That's so sad that we both went there. When we come back, we're going to tell you what Diddy's reps have said about all of this, what the Bureau of Prisons are saying. And, yeah, what's next for Sean Diddy Combs? Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. A wild story is unfolding coming out of Fort Dix, New Jersey, where Sean Diddy Combs is housed alongside a notorious Jamaican drug lord, and apparently the two of them came to blows, and it looks like Diddy didn't win.
00:13:00
Speaker 1: You know, how is it described? Just a fight, an attack? Well, they were kind of in waiting for him.
00:13:05
Speaker 2: Sounds like they were lying in wait. And that's how it's described. And look, we don't know just how much damage was done, just how bad it was. But to have prison officials rush him in an ambulance at 1 o'clock in the morning, they must have been slightly concerned.
00:13:20
Speaker 1: And you know what? I bet this was a VIP treatment situation. We let Diddy get killed in our prisons?
00:13:29
Speaker 2: That would not be a story that the Bureau of Prisons or certainly anyone involved in guarding said prisoners, heads would roll and that would be actually worst case scenario. So yes, he was rushed to the hospital by, these are all coming from sources and multiple outlets have this. Obviously, there's no one officially from the prison involved. acknowledging all of this. In fact, the official statement from the prison is, for privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual, including quarter assignment or medical status.
00:14:04
Speaker 1: Safety is first.
00:14:07
Speaker 2: And privacy. They want to make sure they respect the privacy of the inmates.
00:14:11
Speaker 1: Privacy. Four interviews got out, at least, from your prison. Right?
00:14:15
Speaker 2: Exactly. People are talking. You just don't know who. Now, Diddy's reps put out this statement. We are aware of the reports concerning Sean Combs, and we are working to confirm the circumstances, Sean's health and well-being. are our immediate concern, and we appreciate everyone who has reached out.
00:14:33
Speaker 1: How does NBC and TMZ know, but his reps don't?
00:14:35
Speaker 2: Right, well, they're just not talking, right? Yes, and People Magazine, too, has confirmed plenty. So, yes, we've got journalists probably just stationed outside of Fort Dix for any slight bubble. But there has been. I mean, it's been eventful. There has been quite a few news reports that have come out of there because this isn't Diddy's first fight. He had a fight with another inmate, just an unnamed inmate, back in July.
00:14:58
Speaker 1: Remember? What was that one about, though?
00:15:00
Speaker 2: We don't know what the beef was. Oh, the word is that someone dissed him. So he was protecting his reputation. And so, yes.
00:15:11
Speaker 1: Dee, you got 50 months, brother, and you were looking at life. Chill out.
00:15:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, right?
00:15:17
Speaker 1: Like, brother, what did he keep saying to that judge to let him out? Gonna be different. Gonna help men in prison. Gonna be an inspiration. This, hey man, I thought the judge should give him a break. That judge knew what he was doing.
00:15:32
Speaker 2: He was inspiring prisoners to use your power for privilege and continue to do what you were doing outside of prison, looking at nudes and watching documentaries, drinking, sipping Hennessy. But he is back in solitary confinement, according to all the outlets. And reportedly, both he and Christopher Koch Each received two weeks. He got two weeks extra for the fight in solitary. So right now they say Christopher Coke's in the hole and Diddy's in the hole.
00:16:06
Speaker 1: Look at you getting the lingo down. Right?
00:16:07
Speaker 2: You know, I'm feeling cool after just learning all this stuff that I didn't even know. I didn't even know Christopher Coke's name before this. But it was really... I got a kick out of seeing how much you knew about him already.
00:16:18
Speaker 1: Dudas. Dudas. No, he is legendary.
00:16:22
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:16:22
Speaker 1: He really is. You've watched it. There was hierarchy. Oh, yeah. Like his dad died, and then his brother moved up to take the crown. Brother died, then he moved up to, right?
00:16:36
Speaker 2: It's like the mafia.
00:16:36
Speaker 1: It's fascinating.
00:16:37
Speaker 2: It was like the Jamaican Mafia, so to speak.
00:16:39
Speaker 1: And to think, we listen and follow and watch the whole Diddy case. He ends up in the hospital and prison, and that's the guy that sent him there? You can't make this stuff up.
00:16:50
Speaker 2: I mean, it would be fascinating if Diddy were to talk about it when he gets out. I mean, I bet you he has so many stories. Oh, my. Maybe he'll rap about it.
00:17:02
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll just sit down. You got four years and you could have gotten life. Sit down. Just go sit down, Diddy. Don't have somebody make you sit down like Dudas or the next prosecutor. Just sit down. I know, baby. I wouldn't imagine how difficult it is and reputations and how you got to be tough and how you got in prison. I can't imagine, baby. I cannot imagine.
00:17:28
Speaker 2: Don't ever want to have to actually understand.
00:17:30
Speaker 1: But my God, Diddy.
00:17:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, so all of this Now, his release date, it had moved all the way up to January 21st, 2028. It's now moved back to March 2nd. And that's all we know in terms of official punishment alongside the solitary confinement. But 10 months, if his date stays at March 2nd, 2028, it'll probably move around a little bit. But give or take, 10 months later, Christopher Coke will also be a free man.
00:17:59
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's going to throw him a going-away party in prison. Oh, no. See you on the outside.
00:18:07
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that just be so menacing? Just to leave that note, a little card. See you on the outside. Holy hell.
00:18:14
Speaker 1: He needs to make amends before he leaves. This dude is not that guy to be messing with.
00:18:18
Speaker 2: Hopefully he knows how to do that.
00:18:20
Speaker 1: Maybe he's changed his life and his ways. No, it doesn't sound like it because he just bashed Diddy's head in.
00:18:24
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like it. Oh, my goodness. All right, we'll keep our eye on this situation, but wanted to put it on your radar. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk soon.