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President Donald Trump has revealed that disgraced rapper and producer Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs reached out to him to ask for a pardon. Trump also said that he still calls Diddy by the moniker he went by in the 1990s, “Puff Daddy.”
While fielding a question about CNN’s Kaitlin Collins about whether or not he’d pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, President Trump mentioned that Diddy has recently asked him for a pardon, too.
President Donald Trump says that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ legal team reached out to his office in an effort to secure a pardon
“I have a lot of people have asked me for pardons. I call him ‘Puff Daddy’ has asked me for a pardon,” Trump said.
Despite the request, Trump has not yet given a pardon to Diddy, who was recently sentenced to 50 months in prison.
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Combs was arrested in New York City in September 2024 by federal agents following allegations of sexual assault, physical abuse, drugging, and coercive behavior that spanned decades, and was officially charged with racketeering, trafficking by force or coercion, and transporting individuals across state lines for the purposes of prostitution.
He was ultimately only convicted of transporting individuals across state lines for the purposes of prostitution and received a 50 month prison sentence (prosecutors were seeking 11 years).
“I lost my way. I got lost in my journey. Lost in the drugs and the excess. My downfall was rooted in my selfishness. I have been humbled and broken to my core. Jail is designed to break you mentally, physically and spiritually,” Combs wrote in a letter to the judge, seeking mercy.
“Over the past year there have been so many times that I wanted to give up. There have been some days I thought I would be better off dead. The old me died in jail and a new version of me was reborn. Prison will change you or kill you — I choose to live.”
Court room sketches of Diddy receiving his sentence also went viral, which you can find on social media.