Sean 'Diddy' Combs CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS

THE MUSIC MOGUL ABANDONS HOPE OF BEING RELEASED ON BAIL AS HE PREPARES TO DEFEND HIMSELF AT A CRIMINAL TRIAL AND IN MORE THAN 30 SEXUAL ASSAULT LAWSUITS

- DANIELLE BACHER, ELIZABETH ROSNER and GILLIAN TELLING

For Sean “Diddy” Combs, this Christmas will be anything but merry. At 6 a.m. he’ll start his day in a white cinder-block dormitory-style detention unit in New York City, far from the Miami Beach and Los Angeles mansions he called home before he was charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and other criminal offenses on Sept. 16. For lunch he will be served Cornish hen, macaroni and cheese, cranberry sauce and rolls, and for Christmas dinner, two peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches. Otherwise the holiday behind bars will be no different from any other day at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where, sources say, Combs, 55, has remained upbeat since his arrest last fall. He playscard games with other inmates and shoots hoops during recreational hours, and family members visit on weekdays. “He’s well-liked inside prison,” says a former inmate. “People are getting along with him.”