Usher defends 'misrepresented' Sean 'Diddy' Combs amid prison stay

R&B legend Usher is defending his musical peer, Sean \

R&B legend Usher is defending his musical peer, Sean "Diddy" Combs, months after the superproducer was sentenced to several years in prison.

In a new interview with Forbes, Usher, 47, said he felt Combs had been "misrepresented" amid his closely watched federal sex crimes trial, and cited "legacy" as the one word that comes to mind when the Bad Boy Records founder's name comes up.

"In many ways, I think certain people are prosecuted and maybe not recognized for the greatness that they offer," Usher told the outlet in the March 25 interview. "I don't have anything negative to say about Sean Combs because my experience was not what the world has seen and how he's been misrepresented."

The disgraced music mogul, who was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in 2025, is set to be freed in 2028. Combs, 56, is behind bars at New Jersey's FCI Fort Dix serving a 50-month sentence for his conviction, after being acquitted on the more serious charges, sex trafficking and racketeering.

"I'm not saying that every man is perfect. I'm not saying that all of us don't have flaws," Usher continued. "But I can't with any sense of humanity not recognize the valuable contributions that this man made for us as Black entrepreneurs, for us as businessmen, for us as people who have transitioned culture and ideas into something that's tangible."