Sean “Diddy” Combs’ jail launch date has been formally revealed.
In response to the Bureau of Prisons web site, Diddy, 55, is scheduled for launch on Could 8, 2028. He’s at the moment being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle (MDC) however could possibly be transferred to a different facility to serve out the rest of his sentence.
Diddy has been behind bars since September 2024, following his arrest on fees of transportation to interact in prostitution, intercourse trafficking, and racketeering conspiracy. The rapper and entrepreneur has constantly pleaded not responsible to all fees, denying any wrongdoing.
On July 2, 2025, a jury discovered Diddy responsible on two counts of transportation, whereas acquitting him of the opposite fees. Three months later, Decide Arun Subramanian sentenced him to 50 months in jail, or simply over 4 years. The time Diddy has already served at MDC will rely towards his sentence. As well as, the decide imposed a $500,000 nice and mandated 5 years of supervised launch following his jail time period.
Within the days main as much as his sentencing on October 3, Diddy’s authorized crew requested a considerably lighter sentence. His attorneys requested for 14 months behind bars, adopted by supervised launch together with obligatory drug therapy, particular person remedy, and group remedy. They argued that Diddy “has been adequately punished by serving 13 months within the horrible situations” at MDC. In response to the attorneys, these situations included fixed suicide watch—with safety checking on him each two hours—even throughout sleep, restricted entry to wash water, and an absence of wholesome or edible meals.
Earlier this month, Diddy’s lawyer Alexandra Shapiro filed a discover of enchantment, signaling that the authorized crew plans to problem each the conviction and the sentence. Whereas the enchantment discover didn’t element the grounds, his attorneys have beforehand argued that the statute underneath which Diddy was charged, the Mann Act, shouldn’t apply on this case.
Including to the drama, Diddy’s longtime pal Charlucci Finney claimed the music mogul skilled a terrifying incident whereas incarcerated. “He wakened with a knife to his throat,” Finney instructed the Each day Mail on October 22. “I don’t know whether or not he fought him off or the guards got here, I simply know that it occurred.” Finney instructed the assault could have been supposed to intimidate Diddy relatively than hurt him, noting, “If this man had needed to hurt him, Sean would have been harmed. It will solely take a second to chop his throat with a weapon and kill him.”
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