Overview
- TMZ reported, citing an unnamed senior White House source, that President Trump was considering commuting Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sentence and suggested it could happen this week.
- A White House spokesperson, quoted by NBC News and other outlets, said there was “nothing true” in the TMZ story and stressed that the president alone decides pardons and commutations.
- TMZ spokesperson Casey Carver said the outlet stands by its reporting despite the official denial.
- Combs was convicted in July on two counts of transportation for prostitution and on October 3 received a 50‑month federal prison term, a $500,000 fine, and five years of supervised release, after being acquitted of racketeering and sex‑trafficking charges.
- Detained since September 2024, Combs has served about 13 months and can appeal; his lawyers sought a 14‑month sentence while prosecutors pushed for more than 11 years, and in August Trump told Newsmax he would “say no” to a pardon.