Sean “Diddy” Combs is nearly unrecognizable in a new photo taken inside FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey.
In a photo taken Sunday, November 23, the incarcerated mogul, 56, was seen wearing his gray prison sweatsuit and smiling. His hair has gone fully gray, as has his beard, which he wore shaped into a lengthy goatee.
Diddy is assigned to media library in the prison’s chapel, where he’s responsible for checking out movies and religious materials to his fellow inmates.
He was transferred to Fort Dix on October 30 following his sentencing earlier that month. He had previously been incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his September 2024 arrest on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Diddy pleaded not guilty to the charges and denied all the allegations against him.
In July, a jury found him guilty on two counts of transportation but acquitted him of the other charges. Three months later, Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced him to 50 months, or just over four years, in prison plus five years of supervised release and a $500,000 fine. The 13 months he spent at MDC will as time served count toward his sentence. The Bureau of Prisons website currently shows his release date as June 4, 2028.
Shortly after his transfer, Diddy was photographed in the yard at Fort Dix smiling and chatting with other inmates. One of the inmates was Sebastian Telfair, a former NBA star who is in prison for violating his probation over a healthcare fraud conviction.
“He’s met some nice people,” Diddy’s spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, told Us Weekly in a cover story earlier this month. “People have been kind to him.”
According to Engelmayer, Diddy’s job in the chapel library is one of the more sought-after work assignments at Fort Dix, and the Grammy winner is so far enjoying his tasks.
“He finds it comforting and rewarding, and he gets to help other inmates out with their reading [and] their needs,” Engelmayer explained, adding that “everyone assists the chaplain.”
There had been reports that Diddy was assigned to be the chaplain’s assistant, but Engelmayer said, “There’s no specific title.”
Earlier this month, reports circulated that Diddy had been caught making and consuming alcohol behind bars, but Engelmayer described the claim as “completely false.”
As part of his sentencing, Diddy was ordered to partake in mental health and substance abuse programmes. He was accepted into a residential drug abuse program (RDAP) at Fort Dix which could reduce his sentencing by up to one year. Inmates enrolled in RDAP stay in a unit away from the general population and spend some of their days in therapy.
Diddy will also be teaching a class with the goal to “equip participants with essential skills in business management, entrepreneurship and personal development.” According to Engelmayer, it will be “the same or very similar” to the one Diddy already taught at MDC.