Sean Combs has settled into his new home at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey. Sean transferred to Fort Dix to begin serving his 50-month sentence and is expected to be released by May 2028.
He celebrated his 56th birthday today, November 4.
New photos obtained by TMZ show the music mogul bonding with inmates on the prison yard – including former NBA star Sebastian Telfair.
Sebastian, a cousin of former NBA player Stephon Marbury (left), defended Sean in a recent interview with DJ Vlad on Vlad TV.
Sebastian, 40, told Vlad TV the hotel video of Sean beating Cassie looked like a couple fighting, and he said women can drive men to beat them.
Sebastian was a basketball prodigy and 5-star recruit at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn. He skipped his senior year and was picked in the 1st round of the 2004 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers.
But trouble soon followed Sebastian from the housing projects to the NBA. He suffered injuries and fell in with the wrong crowd.
In 2006, someone snatched Sebastian’s chain, worth $50,000, outside Sean’s Justin’s Bar and Restaurant in New York City.
Rapper Fabolous was shot and wounded outside Justin’s Bar and Restaurant around the same time. It was never proven that Sebastian’s crew shot Fabolous over the theft of the chain.
Sebastian and a friend were later arrested on April 20, 2007, and charged with felony possession of a firearm.
The charge stemmed from a traffic stop, when police searched Sebastian’s Range Rover and found a loaded .45 caliber handgun under the front passenger seat.
In September 2008, he pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon and received three years’ probation.
In a 2021 federal indictment, Sebastian and over a dozen former NBA players were charged with defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan out of $4 million.
He pleaded guilty and surrendered to the Bureau of Prisons in August 2025 to begin serving six months at Fort Dix for failure to comply with the terms of his probation.
In August Sebastian pleaded with President Trump to pardon him, but Trump did not respond.
