Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal professionals need the hip-hop mogul despatched to a low-security federal jail in New Jersey to serve his four-year, two-month jail sentence, telling a choose Monday that the ability’s drug therapy program will assist him keep clear.
In a letter, Combs’ legal professionals urged the choose presiding over his case, Arun Subramanian, to “strongly advocate” that the federal Bureau of Prisons place Combs at FCI Fort Dix, a large jail situated on the grounds of the joint navy base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
FCI Fort Dix, one in every of a number of dozen federal prisons with a residential drug therapy program, will finest permit Combs “to handle drug abuse points and to maximise household visitation and rehabilitative efforts,” Combs lawyer Teny Geragos wrote. He additionally cited instructional and occupational packages out there on the jail, situated about 70 miles south of New York City.
The request from Combs’ legal professional got here after Subramanian requested his legal professionals on Friday on the sentencing listening to to let him know their choice for a jail facility.
Also Monday, President Trump instructed reporters that Combs had requested him for a pardon. Mr. Trump, referring to Combs by the nickname “Puff Daddy,” didn’t say if he would grant the request. Messages searching for touch upon Mr. Trump’s remarks was left for Combs’ legal professionals and his publicity crew.
Combs was sentenced on prices he transported individuals throughout state traces for sexual encounters capped a federal case that featured harrowing testimony about violence, medicine and so-called “freak-offs,” and uncovered the sordid non-public lifetime of one of the vital influential figures in music.
While the prison case towards Combs got here to an finish, he nonetheless faces civil lawsuits, together with from a former stylist who accused Combs of sexually, bodily and emotionally abusing him whereas he was working for Combs and his label, Bad Boy Entertainment — allegations that Combs has denied, together with his authorized crew calling them “falsehoods.”
Deonte’ Nash alleged he was frightened all through his roughly decade-long expertise working for the music mogul. The 39-year-old stylist claims Combs choked him a number of occasions, describing one alleged incident that occurred after he went to a restaurant with R&B singer Cassie Ventura, Combs’ ex-girlfriend, whose testimony was crucial in his conviction.
The “I’ll Be Missing You” singer was convicted in July underneath the federal Mann Act, which bans transporting individuals throughout state traces for any sexual crime. His trial led to a cut up verdict, with acquittals on intercourse trafficking and racketeering prices that would have put him behind bars for all times.
Combs has been locked up at a federal jail in Brooklyn, the Metropolitan Detention Center, since his September 2024 arrest. His time there might be subtracted from his sentence, which means he may get out in about three years.
In a letter to Subramanian on the eve of sentencing, Combs mentioned he has gone by a “non secular reset” in jail and is “dedicated to the journey of remaining a drug free, non-violent and peaceable particular person.”
“I thank God that I’m stronger, wiser, clear, clear and sober,” he wrote.
Subramanian has not but acted on the request to advocate placement at FCI Fort Dix.
Judges typically make suggestions about the place inmates ought to serve time, nevertheless it’s as much as the Bureau of Prisons to determine. Those selections, the company has mentioned, are primarily based on a wide range of elements, together with the severity of the offense, the required safety degree and an inmate’s programming wants.
FCI Fort Dix, the most important single federal jail by inhabitants with just below 3,900 inmates, is about 64 miles (103 kilometers) southwest of New York City, the place Combs was born and rose to fame as a rapper and entrepreneur in an array of companies, together with vogue, tv and liquor. An adjoining minimum-security jail camp has 210 inmates.
Combs as soon as owned a house in New Jersey, promoting it practically a decade in the past.
His main residence, based on court docket papers, has been a $48 million mansion on an island close to Miami. That residence and a mansion he owns in Los Angeles had been raided by federal brokers final 12 months through the investigation that led to his arrest.
FCI Fort Dix has been residence to plenty of high-profile inmates over time, together with reputed mobsters, drug traffickers, corrupt politicians and Martin Shkreli. For a time, it was run by the warden who had been in control of a Manhattan federal jail when financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on the jail in 2019. That warden, Lamine N’Diaye, has since retired.
In 2021, a 27-year-old Fort Dix inmate was stabbed within the eyeball by a fellow prisoner.
In 2019, a Fort Dix inmate, a former inmate and two different individuals had been arrested for utilizing a drone to smuggle in contraband together with cellphones, tobacco, weight-loss dietary supplements and eyeglasses. The identical 12 months, a Fort Dix correctional officer pleaded responsible in a separate case to pocketing bribes to smuggle in contraband.
During his time at Fort Dix, Shkreli ended up in solitary confinement amid allegations he was utilizing a contraband smartphone to run his drug firm from behind bars. Inmates are forbidden from conducting enterprise and possessing cellphones.
