Sean “Diddy” Combs should be sentenced to at least 11 years and three months in prison following his July conviction on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, prosecutors said Monday, September 29.
Federal prosecutors in the criminal case against Diddy, 55, filed a 164-page memorandum with a New York court ahead of the disgraced music mogul’s sentencing on Friday, October 3.
“Punishment for his crimes of conviction must take into account the manner in which he committed them,” the documents obtained by Rolling Stone state. “His crimes of conviction are serious and have warranted sentences over ten years in multiple cases for defendants who, like Sean Combs, engaged in violence and put others in fear.”
Combs was found guilty on the two prostitution-related charges in July, following a lengthy trial that began in May. He was acquitted of three further charges, including two counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering conspiracy.
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Monday’s filing by the prosecutors in the case was accompanied by a three-page victim impact statement written by Diddy’s ex, Cassie, who urged Judge Arun Subramanian to take into consideration her harrowing testimony at Diddy’s trial when he makes his ruling on Friday.
“For four days in May, while nine months pregnant with my son, I testified in front of a packed courtroom about the most traumatic and horrifying chapter in my life,” Cassie wrote in a letter obtained by Rolling Stone. “I testified that from age nineteen, Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to trap me in over a decade of abuse. He groomed me into performing repeated sex acts with hired male sex workers during multi-day ‘freak offs,’ which occurred nearly weekly.”
Cassie — who dated the rapper on and off from 2007 to 2018 — accused Diddy of physical and sexual abuse and alleged he coerced her into participating in sexual activities with escorts under the threat of having her reputation destroyed by leaked sex tapes. She claimed Diddy “controlled every part of my livelihood,” labeling him “the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, the trafficker” in her alleged abuse.
Last week, Diddy’s lawyers filed a sentencing memorandum of their own, urging Subramanian to consider a 14-month prison sentence followed by a supervised release with mandatory drug treatment, individual therapy and group therapy.
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The rap mogul’s lawyers argued “the proposed sentence is the only just and fair sentence for Mr. Combs,” because guidelines for “Mr. Combs’s crimes of conviction” are usually six to 12 months.
Diddy’s lawyers said he “has been adequately punished by serving 13 months in the terrible conditions” at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he has been locked up since his September 2024 arrest.
The star’s lawyers also cited his apparent repentance during his prison stint, noting that he “became sober for the first time in 25 years” and has an “incident-free record,” and “has already seen how being arrested and convicted can destroy his reputation and lead to terrible collateral consequences for his businesses, and he recognizes the consequences his actions have had for himself and his family.” They also said argued Diddy “has seven children and an elderly mother who rely on him for support and care.”
