The disgraced music mogul was previously scheduled for release on April 15, 2028.

Sean Combs’ prison release date moved up for the third time

The disgraced music mogul was previously scheduled for release on April 15, 2028.

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- Sean Combs will be released from prison nearly two months earlier than expected.

- For the third time in four months, the music mogul's prison release date has been moved up.

- The change comes two months after Combs' attorneys filed to appeal his prison sentence for prostitution-related charges.

Sean Combs' prison timeline has shifted yet again.

For the third time in four months, the disgraced music mogul's prison release date has been moved up. Combs is now scheduled to be freed seven weeks earlier than expected, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records accessed by **. The adjustment to Combs' release date comes after previous shifts shaved over a month off his sentence.

Combs is set to be released on February 23, 2028. His prison sentence was previously scheduled to end on April 15, 2028, though the date has fluctuated several times since the rapper, known as Diddy, was sentenced to serve 50 months for prostitution-related charges.

Combs was originally slated for release on May 8, 2028, before the date was pushed back to June 4, moved up to April 25, and then moved again to April 15.

Representatives for Combs didn't immediately respond to EW's request for comment regarding the latest change.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs in 2023.

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The rapper, who has been imprisoned since his September 2024 arrest, is currently serving his sentence at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution, a low-security prison located in New Jersey. Earlier this year, representatives for Combs confirmed that he had been accepted into a drug rehabilitation program at the prison.

"Mr. Combs is an active participant in the Residential Drug Abuse Program and has taken his rehabilitation process seriously from the start," a rep for the "I'll Be Missing You" rapper told Page Six in April.

Combs was convicted last summer following a high-profile federal trial in New York. Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York accused Combs of leading a criminal enterprise that "abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct," according to the indictment. Combs pleaded not guilty and has denied all of the allegations against him.

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Combs was ultimately found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, a verdict that was widely seen as a legal victory for the rapper, as he was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have seen him sentenced to life in prison. He was sentenced on Oct. 3, 2025, to 50 months (just over four years) in prison, fined $500,000, and ordered five years of supervised release once he leaves prison.

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In March, Comb's lawyers attempted to appeal his case, describing his sentence as a "perversion of justice" and arguing for his "immediate release and a judgment of acquittal or at least vacate and remand for resentencing."

In court documents from the appellate filing, obtained by PEOPLE, prosecutors argued that Combs was a repeat offender who "abused his victims" by "violently beating them, threatening them, lying to them and plying them with drugs."

The appeal remains pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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