Sean “Diddy” Combs is appealing his 50-month prison sentence and wants the process to move faster. His legal team filed a motion Wednesday asking for an expedited review, according to court records obtained by Billboard.
The filing says a quicker appeal “could meaningfully benefit from any appellate ruling vacating his sentence.” Combs was sentenced Oct. 3 by U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in New York after being found guilty in July on federal prostitution charges.
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Combs, who was arrested in September 2024 after an investigation into sex trafficking allegations, has already served 14 months, which his lawyers highlighted before his sentencing. The lawyers want to make sure his appeal is heard before he has served the full 50 months. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ online database, Combs is scheduled for release on May 8, 2028.
“Mr. Combs expects to challenge both his conviction and sentence in his appeal,” defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro wrote. “An expedited briefing and argument schedule is critical to ensure that Mr. Combs’s appeal of his sentence does not become moot while the appeal is pending.”
Appeals in federal cases can often take several months to more than a year.
Harsh conditions at detention center
The appeal request follows multiple reports of dangerous conditions — for Combs and other prisoners — inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
“He woke up with a knife to his throat,” Combs’ friend Charlucci Finney told the Daily Mail. “I don’t know whether he fought him off or the guards came, I just know that it happened.”
The facility has housed other high-profile inmates, including rapper Fetty Wap, singer R. Kelly, “Crypto King” Sam Bankman-Fried and Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. It has a reputation for inmate violence and poor living conditions. Reports indicate Combs sleeps on a one-inch-thick mattress with no pillow.
“I have a client who spent 25 years in federal prison somewhere else, and he’s like, ‘Get me the hell out of the MDC,’” defense attorney Xavier Donaldson told NBC News last year. “It has a way of breaking people.”
