Embattled Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs reportedly asked former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson to deliver a handwritten pardon request to U.S. President Donald Trump, according to sources quoted by The Sun.
Tyson is said to have handed the letter to Trump during a visit to the White House in November.
Last week President Trump confirmed that Combs, 56, had ‘asked me for a pardon’ in a letter, though he did not elaborate on how the message reached him.
Combs is currently serving a four-year federal sentence after he was convicted in 2025 on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Sources close to Tyson claimed that he visited with one of Combs’ confidantes before the White House trip and was given the letter to pass on.
‘Mike had a meeting with one of Diddy’s closest confidantes and he handed him a letter from Diddy,’ a source said, adding that Tyson asked what the letter contained and was told it was a plea for a presidential pardon.
The source said Tyson admitted he was nervous about the request but agreed to take it and later confirmed that he ‘handed the letter to Trump and did exactly what Diddy’s lot had asked of him.’
The White House was contacted regarding the reports on December 9.
An official spokesperson did not deny the account involving Tyson but insisted that the president’s position on a pardon had not changed.
‘Any media reports on a Diddy pardon are not accurate. The President, not anonymous sources, is the final decider on all pardons,’ the spokesperson said.
