FORT DIX, N.J. — Sean “Diddy” Combs has a contraband cellphone, drinks Hennessy smuggled in by guards and pays other inmates to cook, clean and massage him at the federal prison where he is serving 50 months for prostitution offenses, four men who shared his unit told NBC News.
The network said it reviewed photos and video that appear to show Combs holding a phone. The inmates said he uses it to browse Instagram and view nude photos sent by a former girlfriend. They said he also has a jailbroken tablet for movies and buys the antidepressant mirtazapine from other prisoners.
Further, several victims and even attorneys have stated that they have been threatened and even violently attacked, in order to get them to drop their cases against Combs. At least one person connected to a Combs civil case has died under suspicious circumstances after being named on a witness list.
Another prominent accuser suing Combs revealed to us that she was poisoned and had to seek hospital treatment.
Outside of prison, Combs has been accused of having a hand in several murders, including Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and his ex-Kim Porter.
The fact that Combs is possibly still running his criminal enterprise from behind bars, using a contraband cellphone, is the most damning insight. Combs was caught back in November 2024, using other inmates phone privileges to communicate and threaten witnesses.
Prosecutors previously told Judge Subramanian that Diddy will ‘threaten or menace witnesses if released on bail’. Now, allegedly, he can do it all from the convenience of his jail cell. NBC’s latest report has many asking, why isn’t law enforcement doing anything?
Combs’ spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, did not dispute the account. “The continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs’s life in prison has reached the point where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news,” he said. “The only real news is that Sean continues to serve his sentence within the rules and he patiently awaits the court’s decision on his appeal.”
The Bureau of Prisons said contraband “remains a constant challenge” and declined to comment on Combs, citing “privacy, safety and security reasons.”
The Crimes Combs is Alleged To Be Committing In Prison
Possessing a cellphone in federal custody is a crime under 18 U.S.C. 1791, punishable by up to a year in prison. Under Bureau of Prisons policy, alcohol and buying drugs from another inmate are “greatest severity” offenses, the same category as assault and escape. Paying inmates for services is prohibited. Each can cost a prisoner good-conduct time, visits and commissary.
Combs spent time in solitary confinement this summer after a fight with another inmate and was removed from a drug-treatment program that can shorten a sentence, NBC reported. The report cites no discipline for the phone, the liquor or the pills.
Fort Dix has a documented contraband problem. Five people, including corrections officers, have been charged in a smuggling ring. Drones have dropped packages inside the fence since 2020. One intercepted laundry bag weighed 46 pounds. What the inmates described is not a breach. It is a service, and the people paid to stop it are the ones delivering.
What Diddy is Serving Time For
Prosecutors charged Combs with running a criminal enterprise that drugged, filmed and beat women and used his employees to arrange and conceal it. A jury acquitted him of racketeering and sex trafficking and convicted him of two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution. Cassie Ventura testified for four days. Tony Buzbee says he represents more than 120 people who accuse Combs of assault. Dozens of civil suits are pending.
The government’s case was that Combs ran his sex life through phones, cameras and cash. He is in prison for it. According to the men who lived beside him, he has a phone, a camera and cash.
Who Is Bankrolling Diddy’s Crimes Behind Bars?
Guards, cooks and phones cost money. Two weeks ago, Combs’ civil lawyers swore in two federal courts that he had paid them nothing in six months and asked to keep his case files until he does. Their warning letters went to Robin Greenhill of Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group, his accountant and power of attorney, whose firm managed Britney Spears’ money during her conservatorship. The lawyers are not being paid. The guards, by the inmates’ account, are.
The question remains: who exactly is providing Combs with money in jail? Whether he is being enabled by Tri Star, his sons Christian and Justin, or both, remains to be seen.
Combs told the court at sentencing that conditions at Rikers Island were unlivable. His release motions cited his health, his children and his rehabilitation. His spokesperson now says a phone, a bottle and a staff are “ordinary prison life.” At Fort Dix, they are not.
Government Failure Compounded
Fifty months told his accusers what their testimony was worth. The verdict said the drugging and filming they described were not the crime. The transportation was. Now the sentence itself is being served on his terms, with a spokesperson to say so. For the inmates who cook for him, the penalty is a write-up. For the guard who carried the bottle, it is a federal charge, if one is ever filed.
By all accounts criminal trial against Combs was severely mishandled. The most prominent offenses were never charged, with prosecutors focusing on sex workers instead of the most egregious crimes he is being accused of, including kidnapping, drugging, sexual assaults, not to mention multiple murders.
Bureau records Monday listed Combs’ release date as Jan. 21, 2028, with the date continually being moved up. With this latest information coming out about Combs criminal behavior while in jail, victims and the public are righteously furious.
Sources: NBC News (Sept. 29, 2026); USA Today (Sept. 30, 2026); Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator and Program Statement 5270.09; 18 U.S.C. 1791; United States v. Combs, No. 1:24-cr-00542 (S.D.N.Y.); Jones v. Combs, No. 1:24-cv-01457, and Combs v. Burgess, No. 1:25-cv-00650 (S.D.N.Y.); Paul Smith’s reporting at Shockya. This is an opinion article.
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