Sean “Diddy” Combs’ prison release date has been moved up amid the music mogul’s ongoing efforts to appeal his four-year sentence, Us Weekly can confirm.
Combs, 56, was originally set to be released on June 4, 2028, but can now walk free a month-and-a-half earlier on April 25, 2028, per online records.
Page Six was first to report the news, citing the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Monday, March 2.
The development came after Combs got news that could shorten his sentence by up to one year in November 2025, when it was revealed that he was accepted into a drug-abuse rehabilitation program.
Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs plan to appeal his federal conviction and prison sentence. Diddy, 55, was sentenced to just over four years in federal prison on Friday, October 3, after he was convicted of transporting people across state lines for sex. He was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering. “Both the guidelines calculation and […]
“Mr. Combs is an active participant in the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) and has taken his rehabilitation process seriously from the start,” a rep for the mogul said on his behalf. “He is fully engaged in his work, focused on growth and committed to positive change.”
Combs was sentenced to 50 months in prison in October 2025, with the year he spent in jail counting toward the total sentence. (The “I’ll Be Missing You” hitmaker had already been behind bars since he was arrested at a Manhattan hotel in September 2024.)
At the sentencing hearing, Judge Arun Subramanian also fined the disgraced hip-hop artist $500,000 and ordered Combs to complete five years of supervised release.
Sean “Diddy” Combs. Getty
Combs found out his fate roughly three months after a jury convicted him on two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution on July 2. He was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
Judge Subramanian praised Combs’ ex-girlfriend — a woman identified by the pseudonym “Jane” — and Cassie Ventura for being “brave survivors” who gave others a voice after their bombshell testimonies. Both women claimed they were forced to participate in days-long, drug-fueled “freak offs” while involved with the mogul. Combs vehemently denied allegations of rape and abuse. (Jane and Combs dated from 2021 to 2024, while Ventura and Combs were in an on-and-off relationship from 2007 to 2018).
“Jane and Cassie Ventura have been through abuse and trauma we couldn’t imagine,” the judge told the court, adding, “I can only say your families are proud of you and your children will be proud of you for coming to the court to tell you what really happened. You weren’t just talking to the jury, you were talking to the women who feel powerless.”
A new glimpse of Sean “Diddy” Combs as an inmate in federal prison has been revealed. CBS News published Diddy’s intake photo at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey on Monday, November 10. The former music mogul, 57, was transferred to the facility on October 30, several weeks after being sentenced to four years behind […]
Weeks after his sentencing, Combs was transferred from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to Fort Dix, a low-security facility, on October 30.
As for his day-to-day, Us learned that prisoners are woken up at 6 a.m. for breakfast then take classes or work before lunch at 1 p.m. Dinner is at 5 p.m. followed by a few hours of recreation time. The facility’s protocol is that prisoners must be at their bunks every day at 9 p.m. for a final head count and return to their bunks to sleep by 11 p.m.
Combs’ spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, told Us in November 2025 that he was put to work in the chapel library. Engelmayer said that Combs “finds it comforting and rewarding, and he gets to help other inmates out with their reading [and] their needs.”