"I think it'll be sooner": Diddy's lawyer optimistic about early release as rapper begins sentence at FCI Fort Dix

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Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to 50 months in prison earlier this month after the rapper was found guilty on prostitution-related charges. The rapper had been incarcerated at Brooklyn MDC since his arrest in 2024. Diddy's legal team requested to change the rapper's facility. According to TMZ, the music mogul was transferred to FCI Fort Dix after the Federal Bureau of Prisons granted the request.

Diddy will serve his sentence at the New Jersey facility. Recently, the tentative date of his release was revealed. As per the revealed date he will be released on May 8 in 2028. However, Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo hopes for an early release. On Thursday, a TMZ photographer spoke with Agnifilo, asking about the possibility of a pardon and whether an early release before the potential release date was possible.

"I think it's a fair question. I think it'll be sooner than that. How much sooner than that? I don't know. There are a lot of variables, you know; we just want to kind of get him situated where he's going to be and get him comfortable. The MTC is, the people there have done the best they could to take care of him, but, you know, he's gonna go on to another facility, and, you know, I have no doubt he'll be a perfect prisoner. And I have no doubt that he'll get out as soon as the system lets him."

What more did Diddy's lawyer say?

Earlier during the sentencing hearing, Diddy's defense counsel mentioned an alleged attempted attack on the rapper at MDC Brooklyn. On Thursday, TMZ's representative asked Agnifilo if the alleged attacker was charged.

"I actually, I don't know honestly. I don't know. He had very, very few negative incidents. I mean, you know, he really, I think, was just an outstanding, you know, an inmate and had great kind of restraint and circumspection throughout his time there. That's what I've heard from all the folks at MDC. I don't know what's gonna happen to this person, though," Diddy's lawyer stated.

The reporter further asked how Combs has been holding up in prison. Mark Agnifilo replied that the rapper "misses his family terribly." He added that Diddy was "anxious" to get out.

"I really believe he has a wonderful series of chapters, hopefully many, many chapters in the rest of his life. He deserves to have life after this. I'm grateful for the jury for giving him that opportunity and I think he's gonna make the most," Combs lawyer added.

In a follow-up question, TMZ's photographer asked if Diddy had planned to write a book while serving his sentence. His defense lawyer answered that he was not aware of the music mogul's plan on what to do while awaiting his release. He concluded by saying that he just wanted this sentence to be over quickly, to just be with his family.


However, Combs' lawyer did not make any comment on the possibility of pardon. Meanwhile, the rapper has made an appeal and plans to challenge his sentence in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Edited by Sohini Biswas