Amid what’s been the most challenging year in the life of music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Dailymail.com is taking a look back at simpler times for the rapper, when he was a student at a Catholic high school in the Bronx. Combs, 55, was seen in a series of images (provided by Seth Poppel of Yearbook Library) from his time at Mount St. Michael Academy in Mount Vernon, New York, which is about 25 miles north of his current whereabouts at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. The Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down performer remains in federal custody more than three months after his September 16 arrest in Manhattan in connection with 𝓈ℯ𝓍 trafficking and racketeering charges, with prosecutors claiming he used blackmail and violence in his efforts to silence victims.

For much of Bear Payne’s life, his beloved father Liam was a constant globetrotter, jet-setting across the world, determined to make a success of being a solo artist. But without fail, no matter the distance Liam would need to travel, there was always one time of the year when he made sure he was home to see his son: Christmas Day. The pair would rip presents open, before enjoying a festive dinner and braving the cold to play with the singer’s giant toy dinosaurs that he kept in his garden. Imagine, then, the heartache this year for Bear, aged just seven, when he wakes on Christmas morning without the presence of his beloved daddy.