Highlights
- Four former Fort Dix inmates told NBC News that Sean Combs pays fellow prisoners to cook, clean and give him massages.
- Sources claim he has a contraband cellphone, smuggled Hennessy and so much fan mail that other inmates store it for him.
- His spokesperson says the media is hyping ordinary prison life while Combs waits on a ruling on his appeal.
Sean Combs isn’t doing hard time. He’s doing room service.
Four men who shared his Fort Dix housing unit told NBC News the disgraced mogul has turned the low-security New Jersey lockup into a members-only club. “Pretty much the day he arrived, the party started,” one fellow inmate said.
Another put it more bluntly. “This is not some normal s— you see in jail. This is some rich s—.”
The shrug that followed says it all. “It looks crazy, but again, it’s Diddy.”
The alleged perks read like a spa brochure. Sources claim inmates clean his toilets and bathrooms before he uses them and cook him curry chicken, pizza and empanadas. Others allegedly make his bed and do his laundry, and one reportedly handles Chinese-style massages.
Then there’s the bar. Guards allegedly smuggled in premium liquor that Combs shared with select inmates on weekend evenings.
“Hell yeah, I drank with him,” one man said, claiming the two shared Hennessy.
The staff, apparently, has limits. “After a while, I got tired of cooking,” admitted one man who says he made meals for Combs.
Who’s paying? Sources say Combs moves thousands of dollars a month into fellow inmates’ commissary accounts.
NBC also reviewed photos and video that appear to show him using an unauthorized cellphone. Sources say it’s been used to view nude photos and scroll Instagram.
The fan mail is out of control, too. “It’s so much that he gets. He doesn’t have room for it,” a source said, adding that other inmates hold it for him.
The report also claims he’s been getting antidepressants from other inmates, plus a modified tablet for watching films and documentaries.
It’s a far cry from the pious picture his camp painted last fall. Publicist Juda Engelmayer said his chapel library job felt “warm, respectful, and rewarding.”
Or the humble act at sentencing. “I’m not this larger than life person, I’m just a human being,” he told Judge Arun Subramanian.
Not every day’s been a massage. He was reportedly sent to isolation in July after a fight with another inmate, then removed from the drug treatment program his lawyers had sought partly because it can shave time off sentences. Once out, sources say, the pampering picked right back up.
The timing is brutal. Authorities just broke up an alleged smuggling operation at Fort Dix this month, charging current and former corrections officers.
(NYC). Photo by: John Nacion/STAR MAX
Team Combs isn’t amused. His spokesperson slammed coverage that “characterizes ordinary prison life as news.”
“The only real news is that Sean continues to serve his sentence,” the rep insisted.
The Bureau of Prisons declined to discuss his conditions. Combs was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering but convicted on two transportation counts, and is slated for release on May 8, 2028.
Ordinary prison life. Sure. Somebody pass the Hennessy.
