President Trump says Sean 'Diddy' Combs wants a presidential pardon

Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News on Oct 7, 2025

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President Donald Trump said Sean “Diddy” Combs had requested a presidential pardon, his comment coming just days after the convicted rap mogul was sentenced to more than four years in prison for transporting his former girlfriends and male commercial sex workers across the country for depraved sex parties distinguished by drug use and violence.

“I have a lot of people who have asked me for pardons,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday. “I call him ‘Puff Daddy’ has asked me for a pardon.”

Combs, 55, was sentenced to 50 months in prison on Friday following his July conviction on two prostitution offenses alleging he violated the Mann Act. Manhattan Federal Judge Arun Subramanian said the mogul had abused the power and control he wielded over the lives of women he “professed to love dearly,” in ruthless “subjugation” that went on for some 15 years.

He said there was “massive” evidence of Combs’ abusive behavior at so-called “freakoffs,” the marathon sexual performances he orchestrated — documented in “images of gashes, bruises, broken doors,” and footage of him savagely beating Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.

Lawyers and representatives for Combs did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday. In addition to his criminal matter, the pardon-seeking mogul faces more than 100 lawsuits in the civil courts containing allegations of sexual violence and exploitation dating back decades. He has denied the claims.

Barring a pardon, Combs is hoping to be sent to FCI Fort Dix, according to a filing by his lawyers Monday. His legal team asked Subramanian to recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that the mogul serve his term at the low-security federal prison in New Hanover Township, N.J., because of its drug addiction programs “and any other available educational and occupational programs.”

Trump didn’t say when Diddy made the request, but revealed the disgraced entrepreneur was seeking his help in response to a question about whether he would pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, who has virtually no other way out of prison after the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of her sex trafficking conviction earlier Monday.

“I’ll take a look at it,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t consider it or not consider it. I don’t know anything about it, but I will speak to the DOJ.”

Maxwell is the only person who has been criminally tried and convicted of facilitating the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s yearslong sexual abuse and exploitation of teenage girls and young women.

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