The music mogul Sean Combs wrote a letter to President Trump seeking a pardon, the president told The New York Times in an interview on Wednesday. Mr. Trump said he is not considering granting the request.
Mr. Trump also indicated that he had no intention of pardoning several other high-profile people, when presented by a Times reporter with names of some prominent inmates.
Mr. Combs, 56, known as Puff Daddy or Diddy, was found guilty last year of prostitution-related charges and was sentenced to 50 months, or a little more than four years, in prison. His lawyers appealed the conviction and sentence last month, depicting the case as an unjust prosecution of sex between consenting adults and arguing that the judge had been unfair.
The details of Mr. Combs’s letter to Mr. Trump are not clear.
Mr. Trump told the Times reporters that Mr. Combs had “asked me for a pardon” and that the request came “through a letter.”
Asked when the letter was sent, Mr. Trump said, “Oh, would you like to see that letter?”
He did not produce the letter, and he said he was not considering the pardon request.
Asked Thursday for a copy of the letter or a description of its contents, the White House referred to Mr. Trump’s comments.
Lawyers for Mr. Combs did not respond to a request for comment about the letter.
