Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to over four years in prison in the file on prostitution charges, reprimanding the artist for submitting two former lovers, Reuters informs.
Combs, 55 years old, remained impassive when the Federal Subramanian judge announced the 50 -month sentence at the end of a day hearing at the Manhattan Federal Court.
He could be released in less than three years, after granting a reduction of the sentence for the time already spent in the Metropolitan Detection Center prison in Brooklyn, since his arrest on September 16, 2024.
Combs risks a maximum sentence of 20 years behind the graces for his July sentence for two charges of organizing cross -border travel of male escorts to participate in drugs fed with Combs, while he recorded videos.
The jury paid by the charges of trafficking in persons and organized crime, which could have brought him a prison sentence.
Prosecutors claimed that these accused were based on the fact that Combs used violence and threats to constrain two of his friends – the singer of Rhythm and Blues Casandra Ventura and a woman known under the pseudonym – to participate in shows, sometimes known as “Freak Offs”.
Diddy asked for apologize
Despite his payment of these accusations, Subramanian said that a significant punishment was justified, given the evil that Complec caused to Ventura and Jane.
“The court rejects the attempt to define to characterize what happened here as just intimate, consensual experiences, or just a story about sex, drugs and rock-and-roll,” said sub-Ramanian. “It was a subjugation, which caused Mrs. Ventura and Jane to think about the days.”
Combs pleaded innocent. He will appeal against the sentence, said Defense lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, reporters after hearing, arguing that the sub -Ramanian “questioned the jury verdict.”
Before the court, before the sub-Ramanian pronounced the sentence, Combs apologized to Ventura and Jane and said he learned the lesson.
“I know I will never raise my hand on another person,” said Combs, founder Bad Boy Records, who is attributed to the merits to raise the status of hip-hop in American culture.
The entrepreneur born in New York is one of the most prominent men in the entertainment industry that has been tried for charges of sexual crimes.
“Although nothing can repair the trauma caused by the combination, the sentence pronounced today recognizes the seriousness of the crimes it has committed,” said Douglas Wigdor, Ventura's lawyer, in a statement.
Combs's lawyers acknowledged that he physically abused his girlfriends, but claimed that they willingly participated in sexual acts.
Prosecutors asked for 11 years in prison
Defense lawyers claimed that the appropriate sentence would have been 14 months, while the prosecutors requested a sentence of at least 11 years and 3 months.
At the hearing, prosecutor Christy Slavik said that the judge should take into account the abuses committed on his friends.
“Not taking this into account now would mean to let the defendant escape unpunished for years of domestic violence and abuse,” Slavik said.
Before the combination took the word, his children asked for leniency for their father, telling Subramanian that he became a better man in the year that has passed from his arrest.
“We are not here to excuse the mistakes,” said Jessie Combs, his 18 -year -old Combs, with tears in his eyes. “But, Mr. Judge, he is all our Father and we still need Him in our lives.”
Combs lowered his head while his children were talking and had tears in his eyes when they finished.
At the end of the hearing, the judge thanked Ventura and Jane for their testimonies and said they could encourage other women to report sexual abuse.
“The number of people you helped is incalculable,” said sub-Ramanian.
