Niamh Shackleton
Sean 'Diddy' Combs has a way to go before he's able to walk free again.
The disgraced rapper was arrested in September 2024 in New York and went on to be found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, but was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
Following a weeks-long trial and his guilty conviction, Judge Arun Subramanian ruled that the 55-year-old will serve four years in prison and was fined $500,000.
Diddy had penned a letter to Subramanian ahead of his sentencing, branding himself a 'changed man'.
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He wrote: "The old me died in jail and a new version of me was reborn. Prison will change you or kill you – I choose to live," adding: "I no longer care about the money or the fame. There is nothing more important to me than my family."
The music mogul will be counting down the days until his release on May 8, 2028, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons' online database.
The date presumes good behavior, says Mail Online, which often means inmates have some time shaved off their sentence. Should Diddy behave himself while behind bars, he can be released after serving 85 per cent of his sentence.
Following his sentence, Diddy's said to have reached out to Donald Trump in the hopes of being pardoned.
"A lot of people have asked me for pardons. I call him Puff Daddy; he has asked me for a pardon," the POTUS told reporters following Diddy's sentencing.
He also addressed the matter during a Newsmax interview, where Trump said of the convicted rapper: "I was very friendly with him. I got along with him great, and he seemed like a nice guy. I didn’t know him well, but when I ran for office, he was very hostile."
The POTUS was then asked if pardoning Diddy was probably a no, to which he replied (via NBC News): "I would say so, yeah."
But TMZ later reported that the White House is considering pardoning the rapper. Trump's administration has since denied this, though.
"There is zero truth to the TMZ report, which we would’ve gladly explained had they reached out before running their fake news," the official told NBC News in a statement. "The President, not anonymous sources, is the final decider on pardons and commutations."
TMZ, however, insists that the story it published is 'accurate'.