Sean “Diddy” Combs is reportedly paying fellow inmates to scrub toilets and showers before he uses them.
That’s one of the more eyebrow raising claims in a new NBC News report about his life inside Fort Dix, the low security federal prison in New Jersey where he’s currently locked up.
According to sources who spoke with the outlet, the 56 year old mogul has access to contraband cellphones, Chinese style massages and bottles of Hennessy.
The report says he has used a phone to view nude images of an ex girlfriend, and that guards helped smuggle the liquor in.
NBC News built its story around photos of Combs using a contraband phone, along with other images and accounts from inmates. Four men spoke to the outlet on the condition of anonymity, and one of them summed up the vibe pretty bluntly.
“This is not some normal sh*t you see in jail. This is some rich sh*t,” the inmate said. “It looks crazy, but again, it’s Diddy.”
The report also claims Combs frequently bought a type of antidepressant while inside. His money has apparently gone a long way at Fort Dix, covering cleaning and a range of other tasks handled by other inmates on his behalf.
None of this is happening in a vacuum. Combs is serving a 50 month sentence after a jury convicted him in July 2025 on charges tied to prostitution and the transport of sex workers across state lines, while acquitting him of the far more serious racketeering and sex trafficking counts.
He was sentenced that October, and there have been earlier accounts of him enjoying a certain level of celebrity treatment behind bars.
By most reports he has also moved around Fort Dix largely unscathed. For a figure as famous and as polarizing as Combs, that alone has raised questions about how differently a wealthy inmate can experience federal custody.
His camp isn’t buying the framing. A spokesperson pushed back hard, arguing the coverage has crossed into treating routine incarceration as headline material.
“The continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs’s life in prison has reached the point where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news,” the spokesperson said. “The only real news is that Sean continues to serve his sentence while awaiting the court’s decision on his appeal.”
That appeal is the part his team clearly wants people focused on. A ruling could reshape how much time he actually spends at Fort Dix, and a report like this, with photos attached, lands at an awkward moment for anyone hoping to keep him out of the spotlight.
It’s also the kind of story that tends to draw attention from the Bureau of Prisons itself. Contraband phones and guard smuggled alcohol are not small allegations inside a federal facility, and the agency has yet to respond publicly to what NBC News described.
