Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced on Friday to better than 4 years in jail over the hip-hop wealthy particular person’s July 2 conviction on prostitution-related charges.

The 50-month sentence was imposed by means of U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian at a listening to in Manhattan federal court docket docket. Combs, 55, had confronted as a lot as twenty years at the back of bars.

He was convicted on two counts of arranging for paid male escorts to commute all through state strains to take part in drug-fueled sexual performances – now and again known as “Freak Offs” – with Combs’ girlfriends while he recorded video and masturbated.

The jury acquitted him on the additional extreme charges of racketeering and intercourse trafficking, which may have earned him a existence sentence.

Those charges hinged on prosecutors’ accusation that Combs used violence and threats to coerce two of his girlfriends – the rhythm and blues singer Casandra Ventura, and a woman acknowledged in court docket docket by means of the pseudonym Jane – to take part inside the encounters.

Combs pleaded no longer accountable and is predicted to enchantment his conviction. In an cope with to the court docket docket prior to Subramanian imposed the sentence, Combs apologised to Ventura and Jane and talked about he had realized his lesson.

“I do know I’ll on no account put my palms on another person as soon as extra,” talked about Combs, who has been at the back of bars at a Brooklyn jail since his September 2024 arrest.

Combs, the revenue of Bad Boy Records, is credited with elevating hip-hop’s stature in American custom.

The New York-born creativity is no doubt one of many most excellent males inside the leisure area to have confronted trial on intercourse crimes charges.

PROSECUTORS URGED JUDGE TO CONSIDER ABUSE

Combs’ authorized professionals acknowledged he had bodily abused his girlfriends, nevertheless argued they willingly took part inside the sexual performances.

Defence authorized professionals say the correct sentence is 14 months, which could indicate Combs might be launched by means of the tip of the yr after receiving credit score rating for time served.

Prosecutors are pushing for a sentence of a minimal of 11-1/4 years.

At the listening to, prosecutor Christy Slavik talked about the defence was improperly in quest of to portray Combs’ conduct as a “minor results of a intercourse, medication, and rock and roll lifestyle,” and argued the judge should imagine his abuse of his girlfriends.

“To no longer account for it now might be to let the defendant escape with years of house violence and abuse,” Slavik talked about.

Combs’ defence authorized skilled Brian Steel talked about the conduct that ended within the trial obtained right here while his shopper was in “a ferocious drug dependancy,” and well-known that he had already spent twelve months and 17 days in jail.

“Sean has been punished considerably already,” Steel talked about.

COMBS’ CHILDREN PLEADED FOR LENIENCY

Before Combs spoke, his children instructed leniency for his or her father, telling Subramanian that he has change right into a better man inside the yr since his arrest.

“We aren’t proper right here to excuse any of his errors,” Combs’ 18-year-old daughter Jessie Combs talked about via tears. “But your honour, he is nonetheless our dad, and we nonetheless need him present in our lives.”

Combs put his head down as his children spoke, and had tears in his eyes when their remarks concluded.

Combs’ authorized professionals moreover confirmed the court docket docket a video about Combs’ background and philanthropy.

The video confirmed Combs having fun with collectively along with his children, chatting with public school students, and working the New York Marathon to spice up money for charity.

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