A spokesperson for Sean Combs said on Monday that his team was “aware of the reports concerning Sean Combs” and was “working to confirm the circumstances”, after reports that he had been taken from a federal prison in New Jersey to hospital with a head injury early on Saturday 10 October.
“Sean’s health and well-being are our immediate concern, and we appreciate everyone who has reached out,” the spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, said. Neither Combs’s representatives nor his lawyers have publicly confirmed that he was taken to hospital, the nature of any injury or his current condition.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons, which holds Combs at the Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix, declined to discuss the reports. “For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement,” the bureau said.
Where his sentence stands
Combs, 56, was convicted in Manhattan federal court on 2 July 2025 on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution under the Mann Act. The same jury acquitted him of the most serious charges, racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. On 3 October 2025 Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced him to 50 months in prison, with credit for the time he had already spent in custody, followed by five years of supervised release, and fined him $500,000.
The Mann Act, passed in 1910, makes it a federal crime to transport a person across state lines for prostitution, and each count carries a maximum of ten years.
Fort Dix is a low-security federal prison on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County, New Jersey, with a separate minimum-security camp. The bureau’s public inmate records put his projected release in early 2028. That date has been revised several times since he was sentenced.
The career behind the case
Before his arrest in September 2024, Combs was one of the most commercially successful figures in hip-hop. He founded Bad Boy Records in 1993, signed The Notorious B.I.G. and later extended the business into clothing, drinks and television. He has been held in federal custody since his arrest, having been denied bail before trial.
The bureau routinely declines to discuss individual prisoners’ medical care, and it has not issued any public notice about Combs. For now, the only on-the-record statements are his spokesperson’s acknowledgement of the reports and the bureau’s refusal to comment. Neither had added any detail by Tuesday.
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