Sean Combs has been transferred to a prison in central Pennsylvania from the New Jersey facility where he has been held since last October, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed on Friday.
Mr. Combs, 56, is now being held at FCI Allenwood, in Allenwood, Pa., about 90 miles west of Scranton. The spokesman would not disclose any further information about Mr. Combs’s move from Fort Dix, N.J., where he had been since his sentencing. He was assigned to low-security sections of both prisons.
“For privacy, safety and security reasons, we do not discuss the conditions of confinement for any individual in our custody, including reasons for transfer,” the spokesman said.
Mr. Combs’s transfer was first reported by NBC News.
The move came after a detailed report last month from NBC News that Mr. Combs had access to various contraband goods, including liquor, and that he had been paying other inmates to prepare meals for him, make his bed and give him massages. The report included a photograph showing Mr. Combs holding a cellphone.
Representatives for Mr. Combs said they could not confirm the report, and the Bureau of Prisons has not officially confirmed it. In its reporting, NBC News cited four unnamed men who the outlet said had spent time in the same Fort Dix unit as Mr. Combs.
After that report, Mr. Combs spent time in the prison’s special housing unit, a restricted section of the facility away from the general population.
In an interview, Juda Engelmayer, a spokesman for Mr. Combs, said of the report about the conditions at the New Jersey prison that the news media’s “obsession with every little thing he does is absurd.” Mr. Engelmayer confirmed reports that last week Mr. Combs was taken to the emergency room and released several hours later. He could not confirm the reason for the hospital visit.
“We are not in a position to speak to the circumstances surrounding this transfer,” Mr. Engelmayer said in a separate statement. “Sean remains focused on moving forward, and we hope that his time at the new facility will be productive and without unnecessary disruption.”
Mr. Combs, the producer, rapper and music executive also known as Diddy and Puff Daddy, was sentenced last year to more than four years in prison for prostitution-related offenses. After an eight-week trial, he was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges.
The Bureau of Prisons’ inmate directory on Friday listed Mr. Combs as being eligible for release in March 2028.
Lawyers for Mr. Combs have challenged his convictions and sentence, arguing that the sexual encounters at the heart of the case were consensual among all the parties, including two of Mr. Combs’s former girlfriends and a number of male escorts whom Mr. Combs hired to have sex with the women.
