New York — Prosecutors urged a New York federal choose Tuesday to ship Sean “Diddy” Combs to jail for over 11 years following his conviction on prostitution-related expenses, citing one in all his accusers who stated she lives in concern of the music mogul’s launch from detention.
“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,” they wrote in a presentence submission requesting at the very least 11 years and three months in jail.
They filed their sentencing advice shortly after midnight, together with letters from a few of his accusers describing how his violence and calls for had impacted their lives.
Prosecutors referred to as Combs “unrepentant” and stated Combs had conceded his acts of violence and abuse all through his trial however “incredibly … he now argues that his victims should shoulder the blame.”
Combs, 55, has remained jailed since his July conviction on expenses associated to arranging male intercourse employees to journey to accommodations or residences the place he directed them to have intercourse along with his girlfriends.
The flowery dayslong, drug-fueled sexual occasions have been typically filmed by Combs. Protection attorneys have requested that he be sentenced to not more than 14 months in jail. Sentencing is about for Friday. The music mogul had pleaded not responsible to the entire expenses introduced in opposition to him.
In July, Combs was convicted of two expenses for violating the Mann Act, which outlaws interstate commerce associated to prostitution, for arranging the paid sexual encounters between his girlfriends and male intercourse employees. Every rely carries a most penalty of 10 years in jail.
The identical jury acquitted the Dangerous Boy Information founding father of racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking expenses that might have resulted in a life sentence.
Final week, the protection submitted its presentence arguments, saying Combs has suffered sufficient throughout his almost 13 months behind bars and that he must be freed quickly.
Sean “Diddy” Combs listens throughout a listening to over his bid to overturn his conviction on expenses of transportation to interact in prostitution, at a courtroom in New York on Sept. 25, 2025, on this courtroom sketch.
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They wrote that he turned a modified man in a Brooklyn federal lockup, the place he has been below fixed suicide watch and realized to react calmly relatively than violently to threats, even when a fellow inmate confronted him with a shiv.
They stated Combs has realized that his overuse of medication, together with some prescribed by medical doctors, had contributed to violent acts he participated in.
Prosecutors stated Combs was now making an attempt to forged himself as a sufferer.
“He is not the victim,” they wrote. “The Court should focus on the very real effects that the defendant’s conduct had on the lives of the actual victims, his victims.”
At trial, two of Combs’ former girlfriends testified that they felt pressured to take part within the drug-fueled intercourse marathons with male intercourse employees as Combs watched and typically filmed.
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R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura described being overwhelmed by Combs when she displeased him throughout their decadelong relationship. One other ex-girlfriend, testifying below the pseudonym “Jane,” stated she felt pressured to carry out sexually with male intercourse employees. She testified that an enraged Combs as soon as put her in a chokehold and punched her within the face.
In a letter accompanying the prosecutors’ submission, Cassie wrote that she testified whereas 9 months pregnant throughout Combs’ trial “in front of a packed courtroom about the most traumatic and horrifying chapter in my life. 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.”
Cassie wrote that Combs managed her like a puppet.
“These events were degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, illnesses, and days of physical and emotional exhaustion before he demanded it all again. Sex acts became my full-time job, used as the only way to stay in his good graces,” she stated.
Cassie stated she nonetheless has nightmares and flashbacks on an on a regular basis foundation and requires psychological care to manage.
“My worries that Sean Combs or his associates will come after me and my family is my reality. I have in fact moved my family out of the New York area and am keeping as private and quiet as I possibly can because I am so scared that if he walks free, his first actions will be swift retribution towards me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial,” Cassie stated.
The AP doesn’t sometimes title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly, as Cassie has.
In an indictment, prosecutors asserted that Combs used his fame, wealth and violence to drive and manipulate Cassie and Jane, now-ex-girlfriends, into the sexual performances he referred to as “freak-offs” or “hotel nights.”
Decide Arun Subramanian has signaled that he’s leaning towards a considerable quantity of jail time, twice refusing to grant bail because the jury returned its verdict, citing Combs’ historical past of violence.
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