It’s not all bad news for incarcerated rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. The 55-year-old hitmaker was ordered to forfeit 92 electronics seized during raids on his homes in California and Florida. But he can keep his mansions, cars and private jet.
The Department of Homeland Security conducted the raids in March 2024 after Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, and others accused him of assault and human trafficking.
In September 2024, Combs was indicted on human trafficking and racketeering (RICO) charges in New York City.
After an 11-week trial, Combs was acquitted on the more serious RICO charges and convicted on 2 counts of the misdemeanor Mann Act for transporting male escorts across state lines.
On Friday, Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Combs to 50 months (4 years, 2 months) in a federal prison.
According to court documents, the judge ordered Combs to forfeit 92 electronics including hard drives, iPhones, laptops, tablets, surveillance cameras and smartwatches.
The electronics were seized from his $48 million Star Island home in Miami (pictured), his $70 million estate in Los Angeles, and a hotel suite at the Park Hyatt in New York.
$9,000 taken from Combs during his arrest at the Park Hyatt Hotel will not be returned.
The judge allowed Combs to keep his mansions, multiple cars, and his private jet, according to the documents filed Wednesday.
The documents also described a 1996 handheld camcorder with footage labeled “Ibiza tapes”, although the filing didn’t disclose what was on the tapes.
The prosecution said the seized electronics were all “property used or intended to be used” in Combs’ and Cassie’s “freak off” parties with male escorts.
Combs’ attorney, Marc Agnifilo, requested to place his client in the low-security Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution in New Jersey, which is about 76 miles southwest of New York City.
Agnifilo said Fort Dix has a residential drug treatment program to address Combs’ addiction problem. The prison is on the Fort Dix military base and houses 4,100 male inmates, including 200 inmates at a small, low-security satellite camp, where Combs would reside.
Fort Dix FCI was home to “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Joe Giudice, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli.
However, the judge stated Combs should be housed at a federal facility located closer to New York City.
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, the judge advised Combs to serve his sentence closer to New York City.
The judge said Combs should be relocated from a Brooklyn jail to a prison with “any available substance abuse program, including the Bureau of Prisons’ Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), for which he qualifies.”
