Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs will be released from federal prison in New Jersey a month and a half earlier than expected, according to official prison records, where he entered a rehabilitation program last year after becoming incarcerated.
Combs was found guilty of violating the Mann Act during his dramatic federal trial in Manhattan last summer, but escaped more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. In a dramatic turnaround for the late rapper and his legal team, he was sentenced to 50 months in prison instead of the time served they were seeking.
Now, Combs can shave a month off that more than four-year sentence, as the Federal Bureau of Prisons has updated his release date to April 25, 2028, about five weeks ahead of the original date of June 4 of the same year. It is the latest change to Combs’ date, after the date was moved from May to June.
“Mr. Combs is an active participant in a residential substance abuse program and has taken his rehabilitation seriously from the beginning. He is fully engaged in his work, focused on growth and committed to positive change,” Combs’ representative said. Page six Wednesday.
The rapper and fashion icon, who reached near-billionaire status before his trial, is serving his sentence at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, about 40 miles from Philadelphia. His lawyers requested that their client be sent to the federal facility, as it is known to have a rehabilitation program. During his trial, it was revealed that rampant drug use occurred during the rapper’s so-called “scary” concerts. He, his girlfriends and hired male escorts would take ecstasy, GHB and other drugs during marathon sessions that could last for four straight days.
In the wake of Combs’ sensational trial last year, in which details of his sex life, drug habits and dark relationships with romantic partners were laid out before the jury and the courtroom, and then made headlines around the world, prosecutors reeling from the split verdict sought a harsher 10-year prison sentence. His team of high-priced lawyers asked for no more than 14 months, but asked that the year he had already spent in federal custody in Brooklyn be counted toward his sentence, and that he be released home to his family.
Meanwhile, Coombs has applied to appeal his four-year prison sentence in December. But the case appears to be stuck, and at least one of his star lawyers appears to have an interesting new case. After the ruling, an appeal was filed arguing that the government failed to prove its case against him regarding a violation of the Mann Act, which included transporting another person for sex work. His lawyers also claimed that the federal judge overseeing the case was too harsh in sentencing Combs, thus violating his constitutional rights.
But one of Combs’ top attorneys, Tiny Geragos, may have moved on to another case involving a famous but imprisoned New Yorker. Today she is in court to represent Harvey Weinstein as it decides whether he will accept a plea deal or face a retrial in one of his rape cases in New York.
