Report details Combs receiving massages and contraband access in prison

Sean “Diddy” Combs holds a cellphone in video and photographs that NBC News reviewed from inside the prison, a place where phones are contraband. Sources said he used the device to browse Instagram and to view explicit photos a former girlfriend had sent him.

Those images sit with accounts from four men who spent time in the same unit and spoke on condition of anonymity. Together, the four anonymous inmate sources and the material NBC reviewed form the spine of the investigation into how he has lived behind the walls. “This is not some normal sh*t you see in jail. This is some rich sh*t,” one of the inmates said. “It looks crazy, but again, it’s Diddy.”

In July 2025 a federal jury convicted Sean “Diddy” Combs on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. The same jury acquitted him of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, charges that had carried the possibility of a life sentence. On October 3, 2025, the court sentenced him to 50 months in prison, a $500,000 fine, and five years of supervised release. Credit covered twelve months already served.

He had been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest in September 2024. On October 30, 2025, he was transferred from there to FCI Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison for male offenders in Burlington County, New Jersey. The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates the institution, the largest federal prison in the United States by the number of inmates it houses. It occupies the ASA Fort Dix entity of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, approximately 40 miles from Philadelphia, and is divided into separate East and West compounds with a minimum-security satellite camp between them. The transfer placed the 50-month sentence at Fort Dix.

What the same sources described of the ordinary hours around him reached past the phone itself. Other inmates cooked for him, cleaned his living space, did his laundry, and made his bed. The meals they turned out included curry chicken, pizza, and empanadas, prepared with a makeshift heating element submerged in water. Payment arrived as thousands of dollars a month, deposited from outside into the commissary accounts of the men who handled the work.

“After a while, I got tired of cooking. He started going to the Jamaicans,” one inmate said of the cooking rotation.

Fan mail arrived in such volume that it overflowed the space in his cell. Other inmates stored the excess for him. “It’s so much that he gets. He doesn’t have room for it,” a source told NBC News.

Inmates cleaned Combs’ toilet and shower before he used them. One man in the unit gave him Chinese-style massages. On weekends, sources said, Hennessy circulated among a small group. “Hell yeah, I drank with him,” one inmate recalled.

He also bought the antidepressant Remeron from other inmates. Two sources described a jailbroken tablet, modified to bypass its software limits, that he kept for movies and documentaries; among the titles was Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning.

“He’s a billionaire. People are in awe of him. Money is power, especially behind bars,” one of the four said. Another drew the boundary of what that power could still reach: “You can pretty much get anything except a key to the front door and a female.”

A spokesperson for Sean Combs rejected the accounts of life inside Fort Dix. “The continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs’s life in prison has reached the point where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news,” the spokesperson said. “The only real news is that Sean continues to serve his sentence within the rules and he patiently awaits the court’s decision on his appeal.”

The Federal Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on his individual conditions of confinement. “Like all correctional agencies, contraband, particularly cell phones, narcotics, and weapons, remains a constant challenge, and we continue to tackle the problem of contraband being introduced into our facilities,” a bureau spokesperson said.

50 Cent mocked Combs on Instagram over the docuseries detail—the report that he had watched Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning from inside the prison. The appeal the spokesperson named remains before the court.

The projected release date for the sentence has not stayed fixed. Federal Bureau of Prisons records have carried more than one figure for the end of the term at FCI Fort Dix. The first projection listed was June 2028. That date later gave way to another number drawn from the same records: February 5, 2028. After several reductions to the sentence, the figure moved a further time. Bureau of Prisons data reviewed by multiple outlets now lists January 21, 2028. The records indicate that projections of this kind remain open to further revision while time is still being served.

The number at Fort Dix is January 21, 2028.