No, this isn’t a video of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs riding a motorcycle in prison

Music magnate Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Sept. 16, 2024, on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. 

But a purported video of Combs riding a motorcycle in prison isn’t what it appears. 

“Diddy riding a bike in jail,” reads the text over the video in the Dec. 28 Instagram post as someone in what looks like an orange inmate uniform rides a motorbike around what looks like a prison block. 

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As of Jan. 7, Combs was incarcerated at Brooklyn, New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center. 

A Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told PolitiFact that “no incarcerated individual has the means or ability to ride a ‘dirt bike’ or motorcycle in any federal Bureau of Prisons facility.”

The video, meanwhile, predates Combs’ arrest. 

An Instagram account shared it Feb. 24, 2024, with this caption: “Can you do this in your prison?” 

The initial post didn’t mention Combs, but Dec. 27, 2024, the same account posted the same video with a different caption: “Meanwhile Diddy in jail living his best life.”

We rate claims the video shows Combs riding a bike in prison False.