Diddy’s Release Date and Probation Terms Set by Bureau of Prisons
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Sean “Diddy” Combs has learned the date he’ll be a free man again and the terms of his future release after his conviction in his sex trafficking trial.
Combs’s trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York began on May 5, with District Judge Arun Subramanian presiding.
Prosecutors accused Combs of masterminding a decades-long criminal enterprise that abused, threatened, and coerced his victims. He was facing five total felony counts: one of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking, and two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
In July, the jury found Combs guilty of two of the five counts against him after three days of deliberations, acquitting the rap mogul on the most serious charges but finding him guilty on the two prostitution-related charges, leaving him potentially facing a prison sentence of up to twenty years.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 135 months; the defense had argued for 14 months, roughly just time served. On October, 3, the judge sentenced C0mbs to 50 months in prison.
After taking into account time served — Combs has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since he was arrested in September 2024 — his release date has been set for May 8, 2028, according to the Federal Bureau of Prison’s public records.
Combs will also have to pay a $500,000 fine, reported Fox News. He will be under five years of supervised release after his incarceration ends, including mandatory meetings with his probation officers, regular drug tests, and other monitoring.
His attorneys have said they intend to appeal his sentence, and because this was a federal case, the possibility of a pardon or commutation from President Donald Trump is still a possibility.
It was previously reported that Combs’ defense team had reached out to the Trump administration about a pardon, which Trump later acknowledged had been communicated to him, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that “a lot of people have asked me for pardons.”
