Mike Tyson says he hand-delivered a jailhouse letter from Sean “Diddy” Combs asking President Donald Trump for a pardon, a request Trump has already rejected.
The boxing legend made the admission on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live,” saying Combs reached him from federal prison and told him what to do. Tyson did not dress it up. He said he carried out the ask.
Daily Mail reporting on the interview lays out the core claim: Combs, held at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, wanted a message and letter run to the president. Tyson said he delivered it.
Host Andy Cohen pressed him on whether he actually gave the president a letter from Combs. Tyson’s answer was blunt.
"I did what he told me to do, yeah."
Tyson also described himself as “friendly with Puff” and said he had spoken with Combs from jail after the conviction. That is the chain he put on the record: a call from prison, an instruction, and a handoff to Trump.
Trump confirmed in January that he had received a letter from Combs seeking a pardon. He said he would not grant it. He did not say how the letter reached him.
That refusal matters more than the celebrity courier story. A former business acquaintance asked for clemency from a cell at Fort Dix. The president said no.
In an August 2025 Newsmax interview, Trump sketched the earlier relationship without softening the present reality.
"I was very friendly with him. I got along with him great."
He added that Combs “seemed like a nice guy,” then drew the line on politics: he did not know him well, “but when I ran for office he was very hostile.”
Friendly history did not become a get-out-of-prison card. Trump separated past social ease from a live pardon request and rejected the ask.
Combs is serving a 50-month prison sentence after a jury convicted him on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. The panel cited the Mann Act, the 1910 federal statute that criminalizes transporting “any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.”
He was acquitted of trafficking and racketeering after a two-month trial. He has tried to appeal the conviction. He still faces upwards of 70 civil lawsuits.
Tyson voiced shock at the legal tool prosecutors used.
"Listen, I was surprised that they went through so many lengths to get him. They used a 110-year-old rule to get him, that case 110 years ago, but they used it to get him. Can you imagine that?"
Old law is still law. A jury applied it to the evidence it heard and returned guilty verdicts on two counts. Surprise from a friend does not erase the verdict sheet.
Combs is housed at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey. Coverage cited in the same report said his release date moved from January 21, 2028, to March 2, 2028, after alleged jail misconduct, claims he made fellow inmates cook and clean for him, give him massages, and that he obtained outside alcohol and a cellphone. Those jail claims are alleged, not framed as proven findings in the available account.
The picture is straightforward. A famous inmate sought presidential mercy. He used a famous friend as the messenger. The president said he got the letter and would not wipe away the sentence.
Tyson’s radio answers fill in the delivery route Trump had left undescribed. They do not change the conviction, the term, the civil case load, or the pardon denial.
Power, fame, and old friendships still run into a verdict and a president willing to leave it in place.
