Sean “Diddy” Combs’ prison release date has been revealed following his sentencing earlier this month.
According to the Bureau of Prisons website, Diddy, 55, will be released on May 8, 2028. He is currently incarcerated at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center but may be moved to a different location to serve out the remainder of his sentence.
Diddy has been held at MDC since he was arrested in September 2024 on charges of transportation to engage in prostitution, sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied the allegations against him.
On July 2, a jury found the disgraced mogul guilty on two counts of transportation but acquitted him of the other charges. Three months later, Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Diddy to 50 months, or just over four years, in prison. The time he has already served at MDC will count toward his sentence.
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The judge also ordered Diddy, who is subject to five years of supervised release, to pay a $500,000 fine.
Days before Diddy’s October 3 sentencing, his lawyers asked the judge to give him a 14-month sentence followed by a supervised release with mandatory drug treatment, individual therapy and group therapy.
The attorneys claimed that Diddy “has been adequately punished by serving 13 months in the terrible conditions” at MDC. The alleged conditions include “constant suicide watch” — where the rapper is checked on by security guards every two hours, even while he is asleep — as well as “limited access to clean water” and “lack of access to healthy, or edible, food.”
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Diddy’s attorney Alexandra Shapiro filed a notice of appeal earlier this month, indicating that his legal team wants to appeal both the conviction and the sentence. The notice did not include an explanation of the grounds on which lawyers will base the appeal, but the rapper’s legal team has previously argued that the statute governing transportation, the Mann Act, should not apply in his case.
Earlier this month, Diddy’s friend Charlucci Finney claimed the Sean John founder endured a nearly fatal incident while behind bars.
“He woke up with a knife to his throat,” Finney alleged in an interview with the Daily Mail published Wednesday, October 22. “I don’t know whether he fought him off or the guards came, I just know that it happened.”
Finney, who has reportedly been close to Diddy for years, said he believed the alleged incident inside was intended to scare the producer rather than hurt him.
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“If this guy had wanted to harm him, Sean would have been harmed,” he told the outlet. “It would only take a second to cut his throat with a weapon and kill him.”
He added, “It was probably a way to say: ‘Next time you ain’t gonna be so lucky.’ Everything is intimidation. But with Sean it won’t work. Sean is from Harlem.”
Since Diddy’s partial conviction, rumors have circulated that President Donald Trump plans to pardon him, but last week the White House pushed back on those claims. After TMZ reported that Trump, 79, is “vacillating” on whether to pardon Diddy, an official told NBC News that there was “zero truth” to that claim. TMZ, meanwhile, said they stand by their story.
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