Diddy Misses Out On Candy On Halloween (Exclusive)

Sean “Diddy” Combswho once turned Halloween into a luxury spectacle — designer costumes, Ciroc flowing and star-studded guests like Beyonce, Jay-Z and Usher — will spend this year’s spooky night under flickering fluorescent lights, trading his signature swagger for prison garb and a tray of baked fish, spinach and coleslaw.

The 55-year-old music mogul, now inmate #37452-054 at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, is living a very different kind of Halloween. Once the architect of some of pop culture’s most legendary and raucous parties, Combs now wakes to the clang of metal doors inside 4 North — a fourth-floor, dormitory-style unit where about twenty men share early lights, low chatter with card games and the steady hum of a microwave instead of the bass line of a Bad Boy classic.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Combs is projected to be released on May  8, 2028 — about 30 months from now — following a transfer to a federal facility requested by his legal team. The requested designation is Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix in New Jersey, a low‑security prison that offers the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP). U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian has recommended that Combs be considered for any available substance‑abuse program.

Combs was sentenced to 50 months in prison after being convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. His trial in the Southern District of New York resulted with him being acquitted of the most serious charges he faced, including sex trafficking and racketeering. Had Combs been found guilty on either count, he could have faced up to life in prison. The listed release date suggests that Combs, who had already served roughly a year behind bars prior to his October sentencing, could be released a few months early for good behaviorthough that date remains subject to change. Combs’ lawyers filed a two-page court document on Monday, October 20 intending to appeal his conviction.

Until then, his life follows the rhythm of an institution where indulgence is measured in margarine pats and the biggest rule on Oct. 31 is simple. “No candy on Halloween,” an MDC spokesperson tells PEOPLE exclusively.

Combs’ Halloween menu reads like the ghost of a feast, stripped bare of decadence but still precise in its monotony. Breakfast arrives before the sun has fully risen at 6:00 a.m. — a portion of fruit is served, next to a scoop of assorted cereal and a breakfast pastry that sits beside a few kosher sugar packets and skim milk.

By lunchtime at 11 a.m., his next course is baked fish or the alternative, a scoop of black beans, with rice pilaf and dotted with spinach and a heap of coleslaw. A slice of whole wheat bread sits beside tartar sauce, with fruit and a beverage completing the institutional spread.

Dinner may be the closest thing to comfort. On the evening of Oct. 31, turkey roast arrives after the 4 p.m. headcount— with a drizzle of gravy, flanked by mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables and a second slice of whole wheat bread with a dollop of margarine, all sharing the tray. For those skipping the meat, there’s two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches offered, a soft echo of sweetness that might almost pass for dessert, accompanied by another anonymous beverage to wash it all down.

It is a stark contrast from the last Halloween he fully celebrated in 2023, when Combs donned the iconic Batman costume from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight franchise, documenting himself on video navigating throngs of city pedestrians in full regalia. The day before Halloween, Jimmy Kimmel facetiously urged him to reprise the Joker persona on his show, following Diddy’s claim that Warner Bros. had ostensibly prohibited him from wearing it after his 2022 ensemble. The following year, his Halloween plans were completely upended when he was arrested on Sept. 16, 2024 inside a Manhattan hotel, ensuring he would spend the holiday behind bars.

Inside MDC, however, time is measured as much by meals as by clocks. Combs has occupied his days with family visits and even orchestrated a six-week “Free Game with Diddy” business and entrepreneurship class, a two-hour seminar that represents a deliberate recalibration for a man accustomed to controlling the rhythm of any room he enters.

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Outside, the city pulses with candy-fueled chaos, but he is tasting the stark tedium of confinement, of meals served on plastic trays, of life without his seven children—especially the absence of trick-or-treating with his youngest daughter, Lovewho just turned three this month.

This Halloween, there are no lights, no revelry, no sugar highs. Only Combs, a tray of baked fish and the echo of an edict that feels colder than the concrete surrounding him: no candy on Halloween.