Diddy’s Release Date Gets Major Update artwork

Diddy’s Release Date Gets Major Update

The TMZ Podcast

June 16, 2026

Diddy's projected federal prison release date has been moved up to February 2028, potentially shortening his sentence by several months as his legal team continues to pursue an appeal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Speakers: Branson Cork, Eric Wilson
**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Branson Cork** (0:34)
Hey, welcome to The TMZ Podcast. I'm Branson Cork.

**Eric Wilson** (0:37)
I'm Eric Wilson.

**Branson Cork** (0:37)
My brain is so fogged right now.

**Eric Wilson** (0:39)
I am very tired today.

**Branson Cork** (0:41)
Yeah.

**Eric Wilson** (0:41)
But people don't wanna hear about us talking about being tired.

**Branson Cork** (0:43)
I haven't had sugar for 21 days.

**Eric Wilson** (0:45)
Yeah, man, only on your little diet, your health crusade.

**Branson Cork** (0:48)
Yeah, trying to lose weight.

**Eric Wilson** (0:49)
Yeah, I am not. Let's get into the stories here.
First up, we got Diddy, your boy Diddy.

**Branson Cork** (0:56)
My boy Diddy? What are you talking about?

**Eric Wilson** (1:01)
Diddy's projected prison date has been moved up.

**Branson Cork** (1:04)
Yeah.

**Eric Wilson** (1:05)
Streets beware. Diddy's getting out sooner.

**Branson Cork** (1:08)
Streets beware.

**Eric Wilson** (1:09)
They're expected.

**Branson Cork** (1:10)
And then we're going to talk about a foiled plot that could have been very tragic, very barbaric if it had gone down the way that it's being reported. A man was planning an alleged plot to go in and attack UFC 250, the Freedom 250 UFC fight on the White House lawn. And we have the text messages and they are brutal. They are scary because what he was planning was what he said, quote, a second American Revolution.
Like he said, we'll read the text to you.

**Eric Wilson** (1:47)
And if we have time, we'll talk a little bit about this jelly roll and Bunny XO divorce, which is really just like top in the charts as far as stories go today. Everyone's suddenly interested in this. Did you guys talk about this morning?

**Branson Cork** (1:59)
We did, but nobody expected this to happen. I remember, like I said this morning, last night, I was on my phone, I saw the alert come and I went, wow, jelly roll and Bunny.

**Eric Wilson** (2:08)
Do you think the discourse is people are, I guess we're jumping ahead stories here, huh? We'll get into it.

**Branson Cork** (2:17)
We'll get into it if we have time.

**Eric Wilson** (2:18)
I have questions about this jelly roll nonsense though.

**Branson Cork** (2:21)
All right, well, first story up. Diddy, he is not going to be in prison, allegedly, as long as it originally was set. His release date has now been moved up from June, 2028 to February, 2028
So, I mean, to be honest with you, that's what? Three months?

**Eric Wilson** (2:44)
Yeah. So, this is the second time it's happened since he's been in prison. At Fort Dix, he's staying.
And this is just because of all these programs that he's a part of. He's a part of, let's see, do we have specifically? Yeah, drug rehabilitation programming while incarcerated, which reduces your time. There's a lot of different classes you can take.
I know we reported last year that he was drinking and that he was doing other stuff in jail reportedly. So, you know, I clearly convinced him that he was rehabilitated in some sense because, yeah, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reduced the sentence. And now February 23rd, 2028, Diddy is set to be released. But it could be even sooner. It could be this month, Branson.

**Branson Cork** (3:34)
Why this month again?

**Eric Wilson** (3:35)
Because he appealed back in March. And we believe that we should have the answers that appealed this month. And that appeal is mostly based on the fact that he's saying he was not trafficking anybody.
He was making essentially porn, which is protected under the First Amendment. So that's what he's saying. He thinks the judge, Judge Sub-Romanian gave him too harsh of a sentence to kind of make up for maybe what a lot of people think the jury lacked in sentencing and gave him 50 months in federal prison.
So this appeal would reduce the sentence and give him something that could release him as early as this month, because he would already serve the time that this new sentence would be. Or maybe a few more months or whatever, but yeah.

**Branson Cork** (4:24)
I'd say like 5% chance that that'll happen.

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