Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sentenced to 50 months in prison after being convicted on prostitution-related charges. Despite prosecutors pushing for an 11-year sentence, Judge Arun Subramanian imposed just over four years following an emotional daylong hearing on Friday.
Diddy’s lawyers had pleaded with the judge to give their client a far lighter penalty of 14 months, effectively time served, since the 55-year-old hip-hop star has already spent more than a year in custody in Brooklyn.
Before he was sentenced, the rapper addressed the court, expressing remorse for his past actions.
“I am truly sorry,” he said, begging the judge to give him “another chance.”
“I ask your honour for mercy. I beg your honour for mercy,” he added.
Recall that Diddy was acquitted of his more serious sex trafficking and racketeering charges in July, but he was found guilty of two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution.
His ex-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, known as Cassie, had submitted an emotional letter to the court before his sentencing.
In a heartfelt write-up sent to the court, Cassie urged the judge to consider “the many lives that Sean Combs has upended with his abuse and control.”
“The entire courtroom watched actual footage of Combs kicking and beating me as I tried to run away from a freak off in 2016.
I continue to suffer nightmares and flashbacks on a regular, everyday basis,” she wrote.
Combs’ six adult kids also pleaded for leniency on behalf of their father.
His eldest, Quincy Brown, simply called him “a changed man.”
One of his daughters, D’Lila Combs, appealed to the judge to be kind to her dad, “Please, please give our family the chance to heal together. Not as headlines but as human beings.”
