Retired boxing great Mike Tyson opened up about a letter he delivered to President Trump from disgraced hip-hop producer Sean “Diddy” Combs in a recent interview with Andy Cohen.
Tyson, 60, appeared on an episode of SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” released Thursday, where the namesake host asked the former heavyweight champion if he was “buddies with P. Diddy.”
“Yeah, I’m friendly with Puff,” Tyson said, referring to Combs’ former stage name, Puff Daddy.
Mike Tyson told Andy Cohen on his radio show he “did what he told me to do” when Diddy asked the former boxer to give President Trump a letter for him. Youtube/Radio Andy
The former heavyweight champ told Cohen he is “friendly with Puff.” Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock
Cohen then asks Tyson if he’s still in touch with the convicted rapper while he remains behind bars at the Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey on prostitution-related crimes.
Iron Mike explained he “spoke to him once on the phone” and revealed that Diddy asked for a favor.
“He wanted me to give a letter to the president,” Tyson said, prompting Cohen to ask if he in fact did “give a letter to the president from him?”
Sources told The Sun in January that Diddy asked Tyson to hand-deliver a pardon request letter to Trump. Corbis via Getty Images
“I did what he told me to do,” Tyson said, without providing further details.
Tyson’s good deed for Diddy first made headlines when insiders told The US Sun in January that the athlete hand-delivered a letter to Trump.
Sources close to Tyson claim he was given a pardon request letter by someone in the disgraced rapper’s inner circle and asked him to deliver it personally to Trump, according to the publication.
The insiders revealed Tyson hand-delivered the letter to Trump. Annabelle Gordon/Pool via CNP / SplashNews.com
“He asked what the letter was and was told it was Diddy asking for a pardon from Trump,” the source said, adding, “Mike admitted he was feeling nervous about it, but agreed to take it to the White House when he visited.”
“Mike said he had handed the letter to Trump and did exactly what Diddy’s lot had asked of him,” the source told The Sun.
Donald Trump, Miss USA Lynnette Cole, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Miss Universe Mpule Kwelagobe at a Page Six party in New York in 2000. Francis Specker/NY Post
An attorney for Diddy confirmed in August 2025 that his legal team had approached the Trump administration about a pardon.
However, the president indicated he had no intention of pardoning the Grammy winner, the New York Times reported in January.
Trump told the newspaper Diddy had “asked me for a pardon” requested “through a letter,” but claimed he was not considering the request.
Diddy remains behind bars at the Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey, where he is serving a 50-month sentence for prostitution-related charges. Diddy/Instagram
In October, the White House accused TMZ of fabricating a story that claimed Trump could release the disgraced rapper from prison later that week.
“There is zero truth to the TMZ report, which we would’ve gladly explained had they reached out before running their fake news,” the administration said in a statement.
Trump’s administration said “there is zero truth” to a report in October that the president may have released Combs from prison as early as that week. Ron Sachs/CNP / SplashNews.com
The New York Post front page on July 3, 2025.
“The President, not anonymous sources, is the final decider on pardons and commutations.”
The “Mo Money Mo Problems” rapper was convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution in July 2025, but found not guilty on two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and on racketeering conspiracy.
He is currently serving a 50-month sentence at the low-security federal prison in the Garden State but was reportedly sent to solitary confinement after his lavish VIP lifestyle behind bars — which included booze, nude photos, a contraband cellphone and people catering to his every need — was revealed.
The Post reached out to the White House for comment.
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