SEAN “Diddy” Combs has been raking in millions since being arrested on federal charges by renting out his lavish $60 million private jet to high-end travelers.
Combs’ Gulfstream plane has proven to be a lucrative side hustle for the disgraced music executive whose other businesses and revenue streams have evaporated since his high-profile arrest in September 2024.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pictured in at Tao Club in New York City in September 2001 for the P. Diddy & The Bad Boy Family…The Saga Continues CD Release PartyGetty Images - Getty Combs’ has been renting out his $60 million jet to wealthy customers through a luxury rental company ever since his high-profile arrest in September 2024Jettly Sean Combs at his and Guy Oseary’s post-VMA party at Cipriani’s in August 2012Getty Images - GettyThe aircraft, equipped with 14 seats and a range of 6,750 miles, is being rented by the luxury rental operator Silver Air, The U.S. Sun has learned.
Silver Air, which operated the flights, advertises itself as a company with a “comprehensive fleet of luxury aircraft.”
The company is advertising the black-colored plane on celebrity charter broker sites such as Jettly, and wealthy customers have no clue it’s owned by the jailed Bad Boy Records owner, 55.
Since Combs’ arrest at a hotel in the Upper East Side of Manhattan last September, the disgraced music executive’s jet has been rented out at least 126 times up until May 20.
Records show the Gulfstream jet has been rented at least every other day.
The G550 has traveled a total of 149,540 miles – the equivalent of flying around the world six times – since being posted on the rental sites.
Each journey on average has lasted 1,186 miles, approximately the same aerial travel distance from Los Angeles to Dallas.
Customers looking to rent out Combs’ jet for a journey will have to cough up $32,597, according to the posting on Jettly.
Combs has since raked in approximately $4.1 million from the 126 trips in the last eight months.
The jailed music mogul offered to put his Gulfstream plane up for sale in a $50 million bail package he proposed to Judge Arun Subramanian, which was denied.
However, the mammoth cash injection for Combs has been hugely damaging to the environment.
All the trips combined have used up 136,665 gallons of fuel and spewed out 1,710 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
Combs’ 14-seater Gulfstream G550, which was built in 2015 and is registered to LOVEAIR LLC, is stationed at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles.
Photos on Jettly show the plane’s black exterior, executive beige leather chairs, as it’s parked on the airport tarmac.
Sean Combs watches as Regina Ventura, the mother of his ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura, testifies at his sex trafficking trial on May 20ReutersBAD BOY ON TRIAL
Combs, who is currently on trial at the US District Courthouse in Lower Manhattan, is facing a potential life sentence after being accused of running a decades-long sprawling sex trafficking operation.
Prosecutors allege Combs’ criminal acts have been kept under wraps in large part because of his extensive wealth and an inner circle of loyalists consisting of security and staff members.
The courtroom has heard gut-wrenching testimony from Combs’ former assistants, his ex-girlfriend of 11 years, Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, and rapper Scott Mescudi, who is best known by his stage name Kid Cudi, among others.
Ventura, who is eight months pregnant when she took the stand, testified for four days about the horrific sex marathons she was allegedly forced into by Combs.
The singer, 38, also told jurors about the physical and psychological abuse she suffered during her relationship with the music executive.
On Thursday, Mescudi became the latest high-profile name to testify at the trial, which is slated to go for eight weeks.
Mescudi testified that Combs allegedly broke into his home and upset his dog by locking it in a bathroom in a jealous rage over his relationship with Ventura in December 2011.
The rapper, 41, also spoke about how weeks after Combs learned about his relationship with Ventura, his Porsche was set on fire on the driveway of his home in Los Angeles in January 2012.
The courtroom was shown evidence photos of the damage to Mescudi’s Porsche after the exotic car’s convertible roof was cut open and a Molotov cocktail was thrown inside.
The car bombing was also mentioned in Ventura’s lawsuit against Combs, which she filed in November 2023.
During Ventura and Mescudi’s testimony, they both confirmed that the Day ‘n’ Nite rapper and Combs met at a hotel in Los Angeles to discuss the relationship.
At one point during the conversation, Mescudi said he told Combs, “What about my car?, to which Combs replied, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
Mescudi told prosecutors that he believed Combs was lying about his knowledge of the car bombing.
Combs and his defense team have denied his involvement in the alleged arson, and he has not been charged in connection with the incident.
The courtroom will return on May 27 for the start of week three of Combs’ trial.
Diddy locked eyes with us as he entered the courtroom - inside the trial of the decade
By Israel S-Rodriguez, Senior News Reporter at The U.S. Sun:
The federal sex trafficking trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs began with jury selection on May 5.
Combs is standing trial at the Southern District of New York Courthouse in Lower Manhattan – an intimidating federal courthouse where the cases of Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump, and Bernard Madoff, among others, were tried.
Once a powerful founder of a music and business empire, Combs has been reduced to a defendant, inmate 37452-054, stripped of his mogul status, and now standing trial on five federal charges with the full wrath of the United States government against him.
When I attended Day 3 of jury selection at the federal courthouse on May 7, the buzz around the start of the trial was palpable.
Hours before the courthouse opened its doors, more than a dozen reporters and members of the public stood in line in hopes of securing a seat in the gallery for the high-profile trial.
As you walk through the glass door entrance of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse, you are met by bulletproof vest-clad court officers.
All visitors must separate their electronic devices from their personal belongings, which are passed through a metal detector.
Visitors walk through a metal detector before a court officer hands them a poker chip.
The courthouse uses a poker chip system to sort the number of electronic devices visitors are in possession of.
Electronic devices, such as Bluetooth-powered headphones, voice recorders, laptops, cellphones, and smart watches, are confiscated before you’re allowed to enter the courthouse’s main hallway.
As about a half-dozen reporters and I waited in the gallery for jury selection, we witnessed how Combs entered the courtroom shackle-free.
Combs entered with his hands pressed together, greeted his defense team before he examined the gallery, and locked eyes with reporters and potential jurors.
The 55-year-old disgraced Bad Boy Records executive was attentive and engaged with his counsel as they grilled dozens of potential jurors.
As jury selection wrapped up for the day, Combs embraced each of his female defense attorneys before he mouthed “thank you” to a handful of supporters in the gallery.
I attended trial again as opening statements got underway on May 12 and the world media waited anxiously outside the federal courthouse before the sun rose in Lower Manhattan.
A line stretched down the block from the federal courthouse as some members of the media and from the public camped out overnight to try to obtain a coveted seat inside the gallery.
At least three overflow rooms were made available for reporters and the public, who are eager to witness the prosecutions case against the music mogul.
At least half a dozen members of Combs’ family arrived at the courthouse as spectators filed in single order to enter the federal building to turn over all their electronic devices.
Combs’ trial is being held on the 26th floor in Judge Arun Subramanian’s courtroom and is expected to last for eight weeks.
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Sean Combs listens as his former assistant George Kaplan (not seen) testifies at his trial on May 21Reuters Read More Details
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