Sean “Diddy” Combs is seen sporting grey hair and a dishevelled beard in a prison mugshot.
The disgraced music mogul was sentenced to four years and two months in jail for prostitution-related charges last month.
The 56-year-old rapper is pictured wearing a maroon prison sweater in a booking photo at a low-security prison in New Jersey, in an image obtained by CBS News.
It is a far cry from the look Combs favoured at the height of his fame, with dark hair and designer suits and sunglasses.
He was transferred from Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix in New Jersey on October 30.
The Bad Boy Entertainment founder is working at the prison chapel and has enrolled in a 12-month drug rehabilitation program that could see his sentence reduced by a year, his publicist told NBC News.
“Mr. Combs is an active participant in the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) and has taken his rehabilitation process seriously from the start,” his spokesperson said.
“He is fully engaged in his work, focused on growth, and committed to positive change.”
Combs is expected to be released in May 2028, however completing the rehab program could mean an earlier release - though he would still face five years of supervision as well as drug testing and mental health meetings.
He is also reportedly teaching a class to other inmates on how to be entrepreneurs.
“His sobriety and self-discipline are priorities and he is taking them seriously,” his spokesperson said.
Combs’ 50-month term was imposed last month by US District Judge Arun Subramanian at a hearing in Manhattan federal court.
Combs had begged him: “I know I’ll never put my hands on another person again.”
Before Combs spoke, his children urged leniency for their father, telling Subramanian that he has become a better man in the year since his arrest.
“We aren’t here to excuse any of his mistakes,” Combs’ 18-year-old daughter Jessie said through tears. “But your honor, he is still our dad, and we still need him present in our lives.”
Combs put his head down as his children spoke and had tears in his eyes when their remarks concluded.
In July, a jury convicted Combs on two counts of arranging for paid male escorts to travel across state lines to take part in drug-fuelled sexual performances - sometimes known as “freak offs” - with Combs’ girlfriends while he recorded video and masturbated.
The panel acquitted him on the more serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, which could have earned him a life sentence.
Combs pleaded not guilty and is expected to appeal his conviction after sentencing.
In a letter to the judge before his sentencing, he apologised “for all the hurt and pain that I caused others by my conduct” and asked the judge for mercy, saying: “I lost my way.”
“Lost in the drugs and excess. My downfall was rooted in my selfishness,” he wrote, adding that the ordeal of incarceration had left him “humbled and broken to my core”.
He also said he was now sober for the first time in 25 years.
