Sean “Diddy” Combs' eventual launch date from jail has been postponed.
Whereas Diddy was initially set to be launched Might 8, 2028, he'll now be eligible for launch June 4, 2028, per the Bureau of Prisons web site. Page Six was first to report the information on Wednesday, November 11.
Whereas it has not been confirmed why Diddy's launch was pushed again, he was not too long ago accused of breaking a number of guidelines, together with consuming alcohol and collaborating in a three-way cellphone name.
A rep for Diddy, nevertheless, denied the allegations.
“The rumors claiming Mr. Combs was caught with alcohol are fully false,” learn a Friday, November 7, assertion shared by way of social media. “His solely focus is changing into the perfect model of himself and returning to his household.”
A separate spokesperson for Diddy, who's a father of seven, mentioned in a separate assertion to Folks that the disgraced music mogul has “not violated any jail guidelines.”
“His sobriety and self-discipline are priorities, and he takes them severely,” the rep mentioned. “That is solely his first week at FCI Fort Dix, and sadly, rumors will floor all through his time there. We ask the general public and the press to present him the advantage of the doubt, the privateness to give attention to his private development and the grace to maneuver ahead in peace.”
Diddy is presently incarcerated at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute in New Jersey, the place he was transferred final month following his October 3 sentencing. He had been convicted on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution and was sentenced to 4 years behind bars. (The 13 months he spent at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Middle earlier than his switch to Fort Dix will rely towards his sentence.)
Diddy was additionally fined $500,000 and ordered to 5 years of supervised launch after his jail sentence is up.
“Each the rules calculation and the sentence took account of conduct for which Mr. Combs was acquitted by a jury,” Diddy's lawyer Marc Agnifilo claimed to The New York Submit final month. “We contend this quantities to authorized error.”
Diddy was arrested in September 2024 for intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He vehemently denied the allegations and was finally acquitted on the racketeering and trafficking fees.
“We're disenchanted with the choice to pursue what we consider is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Lawyer's Workplace,” Agnifilo instructed Us Weekly in a press release upon the rapper's arrest. “Sean ‘Diddy' Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving household man, and confirmed philanthropist who has spent the final 30 years constructing an empire, adoring his kids and dealing to uplift the Black neighborhood.”
He continued on the time, “He's an imperfect particular person, however he's not a felony. To his credit score Mr. Combs has been nothing however cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York final week in anticipation of those fees. Please reserve your judgment till you will have all of the info. These are the acts of an harmless man with nothing to cover, and he appears ahead to clearing his title in court docket.”
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