Diddy challenges criminal conviction, files notice of appeal

Sean Diddy Combs filed a notice of appeal in the Federal District Court of New York on October 20, 2025, following his 50-month prison sentence on October 4, 2025. The Bad Boy label boss was found guilty of two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution after he was acquitted on the more serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.
 

Combs’s attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, filed the notice of appeal. It does not reportedly state the grounds of the appeal.

However, Combs’s attorneys have previously argued that the conviction should not stand because of the implications of the statute on transportation for prostitution. 

Diddy's counsel, Marc Agnifilo, described the judge as a "13th juror", as he expressed disappointment in the 50-month sentencing

After his eight-week-long trial, Sean Diddy Combs was found guilty of two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution and was found not guilty on the more serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.

He was sentenced to 50 months in prison and five years of supervised release. In addition, the All About the Benjamins hitmaker was fined $500,000.

Speaking with reporters outside the courtroom following the sentencing, a member of Diddy’s defence team, Marc Agnifilo, criticised the judgment given by Judge Arun Subramanian:

"The judge acted as a 13th juror, one we did not choose. He second-guessed the jury's verdict."

He added:

"The jury's verdict was resoundingly clear," Agnifilo said. "There was no sex trafficking, there was no racketeering, everything was consensual, everything was adult, which is why he was convicted only of the prostitution offence."

A few days after his sentencing, Diddy's legal team wrote to Judge Subramanian, asking him to recommend the federal correctional institution in New Jersey as the place where he would serve the remainder of his sentence.

According to the lawyers of the All About the Benjamins hitmaker, the prison is a good place to "address drug abuse issues" and "maximise family visitation and rehabilitative efforts."

Subramanian advised that Diddy serve his prison sentence close to his home in the New York Metropolitan area.

Legal documents purportedly show that while the Judge didn't name a specific prison where Diddy should serve his sentence, he opined that the Bad Boy Records founder should serve his 50 months in a jail with

"Any available substance abuse program, including the Bureau of Prisons' Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), for which he qualifies.”

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