Inmates at Fort Dix were reportedly getting paid to make Sean “Diddy” Combs’ bed, scrub his toilet and give him massages.
Now that cushy setup looks like it’s costing him. Bureau of Prisons records show his release date has shifted from January 21, 2028 to March 2, 2028.
The change follows a Dateline report last week that pulled back the curtain on Combs’ life inside the federal prison in Southern New Jersey.
According to the report, a crew of incarcerated men had money loaded into their commissary accounts in exchange for handling his chores. Some inmates also reportedly cooked him meals that weren’t on the prison’s daily menu.
The bigger problem appears to be the gadgets. Dateline reported that Combs had a contraband phone and a tablet he used to communicate with people outside, the kind of violation that can add as much as a year to a sentence in some cases. The reporter said she spoke with several inmate sources inside Fort Dix.
NBC News reported Thursday that Combs has been placed in solitary confinement after officials learned about the setup.
It’s his second stint away from the general population, after an earlier separation that reportedly stemmed from a physical altercation with another inmate.
The Bureau of Prisons said it does not comment on currently incarcerated individuals, even about an official release date.
It’s a sharp turn from the picture Combs’ camp had been painting. He entered Fort Dix in October, choosing it because it sits in the same state as the home where his five kids grew up and still live.
He enrolled in the prison’s drug rehab program, took a job as a chaplain’s assistant, and his publicist Juda Engelmayer told CBS News that “he describes the environment as warm, respectful, and rewarding.”
At his sentencing, Combs said the trial had humbled him. He’s serving 50 months after a jury convicted him on two Mann Act violations last summer while acquitting him of racketeering and sex trafficking.
Jurors rejected the prosecution’s argument that Combs Enterprises staff operated as a criminal enterprise or that his “freak off” parties amounted to trafficking.
The phone issue isn’t new territory for him either. While held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting trial, Combs was reportedly caught with an illegal cell phone he used to oversee his defense team.
Meanwhile, Mike Tyson has revealed he played a part in Combs’ push for a pardon. Speaking by phone on Andy Cohen’s radio show, the boxing champ said he passed a letter to President Donald Trump at Combs’ request. “Yeah, he wanted me to give a letter to the president,” Tyson said. “And I did what he told me to do.”
That effort went nowhere, and Trump ultimately passed on a pardon that would have spared Combs more than four years behind bars.
With a fresh release date on the books and Combs back in isolation, the fallout from the Dateline report may not be finished yet.
