Topline
Sean “Diddy” Combs is participating in a prison sobriety program that could cut his 50-month sentence by as much as a year, while also teaching his own entrepreneurship class and working at a chapel as he serves his sentence at New Jersey’s large Fort Dix federal prison.
Sean “Diddy” Combs reported to Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey in October. — (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
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Key Facts
Less than two weeks after reporting to Fort Dix federal prison, Combs, 56, has enrolled in a drug abuse rehabilitation program that could reduce his prison sentence by as much as a year, his spokesperson Juda Engelmayer told NBC News early Tuesday.
Combs was convicted on prostitution charges following a high-profile trial that largely centered on drug-fueled sex performances he orchestrated with sex workers known as “freak-offs,” but the music mogul’s lawyers said he became sober for the first time in 25 years while jailed at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
Combs is also restarting a course he previously taught to inmates at the Brooklyn jail called “Free Game with Diddy,” a program focused on entrepreneurship, Engelmayer told NBC News.
Combs also took a job working at the prison chapel, according to Engelmayer, which CBS News reported is one of the only places in the prison where inmates can gather freely, citing a corrections officer source.
Engelmayer also denied a TMZ report that claimed over the weekend Combs was busted for illicit alcohol usage.
Forbes has reached out to Combs’ representatives for comment.
Surprising Fact
Combs faced disciplinary action for making a prohibited phone call on Nov. 3, just days after being transferred to Fort Dix, CBS News reported. The call was reportedly with multiple members of his legal team, though prison rules prohibit inmates from adding people to calls and recipients must only be those on approved call lists. Combs reportedly claimed he was unaware of these rules, though he may lose 90 days of phone privileges and 90 days of commissary privileges.