Sean “Diddy” Combs' prison sentence has got slightly shorter.
The music mogul’s release date has been moved up by 10 days, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.
The new date comes several weeks after a previous shift shaved more than a month off his sentence.
Combs, 56, is now expected to be released on April 15, 2028. He was previously set to be released on April 25, 2028 and, before that, June 4 2028. The timeline has fluctuated in recent months.
Last December, his release was initially pushed back from May 2028 to June 2028 before being moved to April 2028 in early March.
Combs is currently serving a 50-month sentence after being convicted last summer on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution following a high-profile federal trial in New York.
He was acquitted of more serious charges, including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, which could have resulted in life in prison.
Before his sentencing, Combs had already spent roughly a year in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center after being denied bail.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of more than a decade behind bars, while his defense team argued for no more than 14 months, citing what they described as a partial vindication by the jury.
Combs is now incarcerated at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, a federal facility located on a military base about 40 miles outside Philadelphia. His attorneys specifically requested the placement, pointing to its access to drug rehabilitation programs and its proximity to family.
“In order to address drug abuse issues and to maximize family visitation and rehabilitative efforts, we request that the court strongly recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that Mr. Combs be placed at FCI Fort Dix,” his attorney, Teny Geragos, wrote in a court filing in October 2025.
He has since been accepted into a drug-abuse rehabilitation program, which could help reduce his time behind bars with good behavior credits.
But Combs’ legal battle is far from over.
Last December, Combs’ lawyers formally appealed his conviction and sentence, arguing that the sexual encounters at the center of the case were consensual and that the trial judge imposed an overly harsh sentence.
On February 20, federal prosecutors urged an appellate court to uphold both his conviction and sentence, arguing in court documents that Combs was allegedly a repeat and flagrant offender who used violence and threats to commit his crimes.
Combs was convicted of violations of the Mann Act, a federal law that prohibits transporting individuals across state lines for prostitution.
During the eight-week trial, Cassie Ventura, one of Combs’ former girlfriends and another woman testifying under a pseudonym testified that he orchestrated drug-fueled sexual encounters — referred to as “freak-offs” — with paid male escorts.
Prosecutors allege that Combs arranged travel for the men, sometimes across the country or internationally, and allegedly used coercion and control in his relationships.
In their filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan, prosecutors argued that the judge properly considered the treatment of the women when determining Combs’ sentence.
“According to Combs, the district court should have closed its eyes to how he carried out his Mann Act offenses and abused his victims — violently beating them, threatening them, lying to them and plying them with drugs,” the prosecutors wrote.
Combs’ attorneys have pushed back, insisting that the sexual activity was consensual and that prosecutors failed to prove their most serious allegations at trial.
They also argue that the judge improperly relied on findings that the women were “coerced” or “forced,” despite the jury not reaching that conclusion.
On March 13, Combs' lawyers described his lengthy prison time as a "perversion of justice," in their appeal filing, arguing for “immediate release and a judgment of acquittal or at least vacate and remand for resentencing.”
Oral arguments in the appeal are scheduled for April 9.
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