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Sean Combs is participating in a drug rehabilitation program behind bars that could reduce his sentence by as much as a year, his spokesman Juda Engelmayer said. The founder of Bad Boy Entertainment is committed to sobriety, healing and trying to set an example for others, Engelmayer said. “Mr. Combs is an active participant in the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) and has taken his rehabilitation process seriously from the start,” Engelmayer said. “He is fully engaged in his work, focused on growth, and committed to positive change.” A federal inmate locator indicates Combs is expected to be released in May 2028. Completing the rehab program could mean an earlier release, though he would still face five years of supervision, as well as drug testing and mental health meetings prescribed under his sentence, which he’s appealing. Prosecutors had sought a sentence of more than 11 years. The disgraced music mogul was sentenced Oct. 3 to 50 months inprison following his conviction on two counts of transporting people for prostitution. He received credit for 14 months of time served before sentencing. The rehabilitation program is provided at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix — a low-security federal prison in New Jersey — where Combs arrived on Oct. 30th, Engelmayer said. Combs has been accepted into the program and is working in the chapel library there, the spokesman said. “He works in the chapel library, where he describes the environment as warm, respectful, and rewarding," Engelmayer said. News of Combs participating in the rehab program was first reported by the New York Times. A statement posted to Diddy’s X account on Monday said that “The rumors claiming Mr. Combs was caught with alcohol are completely false. His only focus is becoming the best version of himself and returning to his family.” The post came after TMZ reported, citing sources with knowledge, that Diddy had brewed homemade alcohol in the prison using Fanta, sugar and apples. During trial, ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testified that Combs used violence to coerce her into participating in so-called freak-offs, drug-fueled sex parties with sex workers he hired. Afterward, she testified, she felt "disgusted" and "humiliated." At Combs' sentencing, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian said Combs “abused the power and control with women you professed to love." "You abused them physically, emotionally and psychologically," he said. Combs apologized to Ventura and another former girlfriend, describing his actions as "disgusting, shameful and sick." After his conviction in July, Combs’ legal team reached out to President Donald Trump to seek a pardon, a source close to the defense said in early August. On Aug. 1, the president said in an interview with Newsmax that he was previously “very friendly” with Combs, but that Combs “was very hostile” when Trump ran for office. Asked if he was suggesting he wouldn’t pardon Combs, Trump said, “I would say so.” The music executive, meanwhile, is currently in a nine-person room in a large unit that houses 200 people, Engelmayer said. Combs has restarted "Free Game with Diddy," an entrepreneurial class to help other inmates become entrepreneurs, value their self-worth and become productive citizens, Engelmayer said. Combs ran the program while he was at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, he said. Efforts to reach a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons over the last several days have been unsuccessful due to the government shutdown. Dennis Romero contributed.
