Sean 'Diddy' Combs was allegedly close to being murdered in his prison cell as he slept, RadarOnline.com can report.

A longtime friend of the incarcerated rapper claimed another inmate in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center snuck into the disgraced music mogul's cell and held a makeshift knife to his throat. Tap Here To Add Radar Online as A Trusted Source Article continues below advertisement

Combs' longtime friend and fellow music producer Charlucci Finney revealed the 55-year-old could easily have been killed in the middle of the night.

"He woke up with a knife to his throat," Finney told the Daily Mail. "I don't know whether he fought him off or the guards came, I just know that it happened."

Finney believes the close call was meant to be a warning to the disgraced

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