Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs’ projected prison release has been shortened once again, with the disgraced music mogul previously scheduled to finish his sentence on April 15, 2028
Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs’ prison release date has been changed yet again.
For the third time in four months, the 56-year-old disgraced music mogul’s prison release date has been pushed up, as he is now scheduled to finish his sentence almost two months earlier than expected. According to Federal Bureau of Prisons records, Combs is set to be released on February 23, 2028, after he was previously scheduled to finish on April 15, 2028.
The previous shift in release dates cut off over a month from his sentence. Combs, who has been imprisoned since his September 2024 arrest, was originally set to be freed on May 8, 2028, before the date was pushed back to June 4 in December, moved up to April 25, and then pushed to April 15 in March.
Combs is currently serving his 50-month prison sentence at the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution, a low-security facility in New Jersey. Before his sentencing, Combs had already spent about a year in custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center after being denied bail.
Last summer, Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution following a high-profile federal trial in New York City. He was acquitted of more serious charges, including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, which could have resulted in a life sentence.
He was sentenced on Oct. 3, 2025, to 50 months (just over four years) in prison, fined $500,000, and ordered five years of supervised release once he his prison time ended.
Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York had sought a sentence of more than a decade. They accused the father of seven of leading a criminal enterprise that “abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct,” according to the indictment. Combs pleaded not guilty and has denied all of the allegations against him.
Meanwhile, Combs’ defense team argued for no more than a 14-month sentence, pointing to what they described as a partial vindication by the jury. His legal team had specifically requested that he be placed at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution, citing both its proximity to family and access to rehabilitation programs.
“In order to address drug abuse issues and to maximize family visitation and rehabilitative efforts, we request that the court strongly recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that Mr. Combs be placed at FCI Fort Dix,” his attorney, Teny Geragos, wrote in an October 2025 court filing.
Earlier this year, Combs’ team announced that he had been accepted into a drug rehabilitation program. “Mr. Combs is an active participant in the Residential Drug Abuse Program and has taken his rehabilitation process seriously from the start,” a rep for the rapper told Page Six in April.
Combs’ legal fight has continued. In March, Comb’s lawyers attempted to appeal his case. They called his sentence a “perversion of justice” and argued for his “immediate release and a judgment of acquittal or at least vacate and remand for resentencing.”
In court documents from the appellate filing, obtained by PEOPLE, prosecutors argued that Combs was a repeat offender who “abused his victims” with violence, threats, lying, and “plying them with drugs.” He was convicted under the Mann Act, which prohibits transporting individuals across state lines for prostitution.
During the eight-week trial, singer Cassie Ventura and another woman, who testified under a pseudonym, told jurors that Combs organized drug-fueled sexual encounters, referred to as “freak-offs,” involving paid male escorts. Prosecutors alleged he arranged travel for the men and exercised control over the women involved.
In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, prosecutors wrote, “According to Combs, the district court should have closed its eyes to how he carried out his Mann Act offenses and abused his victims, including violently beating them, threatening them, lying to them and plying them with drugs.”
Combs’ legal team has disputed those claims, maintaining that the relationships were consensual and that prosecutors failed to prove the most serious allegations. They have also argued that the judge improperly relied on findings of coercion that were not determined by the jury.
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