‘Astonishing’: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ shock new appearance

The music mogul reportedly shocked onlookers with his dramatic transformation during his latest court appearance.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly lost a lot of weight while behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center, according to a journalist who attended a hearing in his federal sex trafficking case on Wednesday.

“He appeared just astonishingly thinner, which you can expect [from him being] inside a federal detention centre for a couple of months now,” Law & Crime reporter Elizabeth Millner said after the hearing, reports Page Six.

“A lot different from the luxury lifestyle that he was living before, but he appeared very noticeably thinner and maybe being locked up in detention is starting to wear on him.”

She noted that Combs’ appearance was starkly different from how he looked in a video that surfaced online of him playing hacky sack in Central Park just days before he was arrested on September 16.

Millner also noted a change in the disgraced rapper’s hair colour, adding, “He appeared greyer a little bit.”

Combs is awaiting trial. Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP

A courtroom sketch of the rapper from earlier this year. Picture: REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

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Cameras were not allowed inside the courtroom on Wednesday, so Page Six is unable to verify that account.

We also reached out to the embattled musician’s lawyers for comment but did not immediately hear back.

However, a source close to Combs exclusively tells Page Six that the Bad Boy for Life rapper is “fit, healthy and fully focused on his defence.”

“He has been very active, remains in good spirits, and, as always, he was happy to see his children,” the insider adds. We’re also told he has been working out regularly.

Combs has been in federal custody for three months and has been denied bail three times.

He has been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution following a months-long federal probe, and a trial date has been set for May 5, 2025.

The Bad Boy Records founder, 55, was initially placed on suicide watch during his first week in custody, but was taken off of it shortly after, with his lawyer claiming that his client was “focused and very strong.”

Combs at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

However, lawyer Marc Agnifilo previously admitted food is the “roughest part” of Combs’ imprisonment.

The Coming Home rapper’s typical meal in prison reportedly consists of cereal, fruit or pastries for breakfast, hamburgers, fish or beef tacos for lunch and chicken fajitas, pasta or roast beef for dinner.

For thanksgiving, Combs enjoyed a usual holiday spread, including turkey roast, mashed potatoes with gravy, mixed vegetables, cranberry sauce and dinner rolls.

According to TMZ, his Christmas meal will consist of a special lunch menu that includes baked Cornish hen, macaroni and cheese, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls and a holiday dessert.

A former inmate at MDC in Brooklyn, New York, said in October that Combs’ celebrity status won’t help him get special treatment or perks.

“His money and wealth won’t get him any benefits,” Timothy Smith told Daily Mail Australia at the time.

“People think there are TVs and radios, but where he’s at, there’s nothing, not even a radio. You get a Bible and one book per week. That’s all.”

A lawyer for Edwin Cordero, an inmate who was killed at MDC due to an injury he sustained in a fight, described the facility as “an overcrowded, understaffed and neglected federal jail that is hell on Earth.”

Millner also shared Wednesday that Combs appeared in better spirits when he saw his sons Christian Combs and Justin Combs enter the courtroom. His other five kids were reportedly not present.

She noted that the Last Night rapper “smiled,” “beamed up” and waved at his two sons.

Aside from his federal case, Diddy, who has pleaded not guilty and denied all wrongdoing, is also facing several civil lawsuits for sexual assault claims.

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission.

Originally published as ‘Astonishing’: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ shock new appearance