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Former SBF Jailmate Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Release Date Unveiled

The scheduled release date of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been unveiled as the former Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) jailmate plans to appeal his 2025 conviction, per information on the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ ￰1￱ Date Set For Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons , Combs is scheduled to be released on May 8, ￰2￱ was found guilty on two prostitution-related charges back in July of this year following a highly publicized trial that saw the rapper-turned-mogul acquitted on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. Combs, who was sentenced to 50 months behind bars on October 3, has also been ordered to pay a $500,000 fine and serve five years of supervised ￰3￱ Continues Appeal In Landmark Fraud Case Just last week, lawyers for Combs filed a notice to appeal in New York federal court in a bid to overturn his conviction and reverse his over four-year prison sentence.

Meanwhile, Combs’ former jailmate, Bankman-Fried, is also appealing his 2023 conviction on fraud charges tied to his time as CEO of doomed crypto exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for orchestrating the high-profile crypto scheme that saw FTX investors drained out of over $8 ￰4￱ former associates of the former “king of crypto” were also charged in connection with the digital asset scheme, including his former girlfriend-turned-Alameda Research CEO Caroline ￰5￱ this month, the disgraced FTX founder took to social media to allege that “Biden’s anti-crypto SEC/DOJ went after me” and had arrested him back in 2022 as a means of preventing his testimony on Capitol Hill the next ￰6￱ @GETTRofficial ￰0￱ — SBF (@SBF_FTX) October 15, 2025 “They had me arrested weeks before the crypto bill I was working on was set for a vote—and the night before I was set to testify before Congress,” a post on Bankman-Fried’s official Gettr account says.

Bankman-Fried’s next hearing regarding his appeal is slated for November 3.

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