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Sean 'Diddy' Combs has already run into a familiar face in prison after he was spotted hanging out with former NBA star Sebastian Telfair this week.
The disgraced rapper, who is almost four months into his four-year jail sentence after being found guilty on two counts of transportation for prostitution back in July, linked up with Telfair in the prison yard at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, where they are the most famous inmates doing time.
In two photos obtained by TMZ, Diddy is seen laughing and chatting with a group of fellow convicts, and Telfair's publicist claims he is one of the men talking to him.
The ex-basketball player, who is also from Brooklyn like Combs, will not be with the Bad Boy Records founder for much longer as he nears the halfway point of his six-month sentence for violating the conditions of his supervised release in a healthcare fraud case.
Telfair was a 2004 first-round NBA Draft pick for the Portland Trail Blazers out of Abraham Lincoln High School, where he became one of the most sought-after prospects in America.
He went on to play for the Boston Celtics, Minnesota Timberwolves, Los Angeles Clippers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Phoenix Suns, Toronto Raptors and Oklahoma City Thunder before bringing the curtain down on his career in China.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs has already run into a familiar face in jail in ex-NBA star Sebastian Telfair
Telfair (right) was seen hanging out with Diddy and a group of fellow convicts in a prison yard
Telfair is halfway through a six-month sentence for violating the conditions of his supervised release in a healthcare fraud case
After previously pleading for a pardon from President Donald Trump, the 40-year-old reported to Fort Dix - a 'low security' institution - back in August.
In 2023, Telfair pled guilty to charges of fraud after he was found to be one of 18 former NBA players who defrauded the league's health and welfare benefit plan of about $4million.
He was sentenced to time served plus three years probation - which included court ordered community service.
Diddy, meanwhile, is due for early release from prison on May 8, 2028.
The date, which was shared by the Bureau of Prisons last week, assumes he will maintain good behavior, which would see him released after completing 85 percent of his 50 month sentence.
Diddy will have the chance to shave a fraction of his sentence off for each of the three-and-a-half years he is behind bars as part of the First Step Act aimed at rehabilitating federal prisoners. So far, there have been no reports of bad behavior behind bars.
He was only recently moved to Fort Dix after requesting a move from Brooklyn's notorious Metropolitan Detention Center.
Diddy is almost four months into his four-year jail sentence after being found guilty on two counts of transportation for prostitution
The disgraced rapper was only recently moved to Fort Dix after requesting a move from Brooklyn's notorious Metropolitan Detention Center
He asked for the transfer because it is closer to his family and because the lock-up has a drug rehabilitation program
Diddy is due for early release from prison on May 8, 2028 if he maintains good behavior
He asked for the transfer because it is closer to his family and because the lock-up has a drug rehabilitation program.
Diddy was sent to the Metropolitan after his initial arrest in September 2024, with that 12 months in custody awaiting trial also taken off his sentence.
FCI Fort Dix opened its gates in 1992 and houses roughly 4,000 inmates. There are only about 1,250 inmates at MDC Brooklyn, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
Combs confessed in court that his time in federal custody has been the first in 25 years that he has been sober.
