After an extremely high-profile eight-week trial, music producer and enterprise mogul Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs has been sentenced to 50 months in jail on transportation for prostitution fees

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been advised to “benefit from the second likelihood” he has been served up after he was sentenced to over 4 years in jail.

Decide Arun Subramanian advised the rapper he understood he was “in a darkish place” as he’ll endure by way of “laborious jail time” away from his household.

Nonetheless, the choose added that “there’s mild on the finish of the tunnel” as he’ll “have a life after jail.

The rapper was arrested on September 16, 2024 and has been held within the Metropolitan Detention Centre ever since. The excessive profile trial started again in Might, however simply two months later in July a New York jury acquitted the rapper of the extra critical sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy fees.

However Combs confronted 20 years in jail after he was discovered responsible of two counts of transportation for prostitution.

The enterprise mogul’s defence crew requested that the I will Be Lacking You hitmaker be sentenced to not more than 14 months, whereas prosecutors sought greater than 11 years of jail time for the rapper. Decide Arun Subramanian sentenced him to 50 months in jail.

Subramanian additionally imposed a fantastic of $500,000 (£371,000), the utmost potential as he stated he took Combs’s “immense monetary assets” under consideration, saying they “enabled his crimes.”

In sentencing, the choose stated the defence’s name for 14 months was not ample as a result of it doesn’t account for aggravating issue – “the violence, the medicine and coercion”.

Subramanian added that it’s clear how essential Combs is to his youngsters and their mom earlier than telling the courtroom he now has “an opportunity for renewal and redemption”.

The choose additionally addressed the “robust girls who got here ahead to inform their tales – tales of braveness”. He stated former companion’s Cassie and “Jane” – who testified below a pseudonym – went by way of “abuse and trauma we could not think about”.

Turning to Cassie and “the opposite courageous survivors who got here ahead”, he stated: “We heard you… these horrible acts had been made public and Sean Combs won’t ever be capable to wash them away.

“I can solely say your households are happy with you and your youngsters will likely be happy with you… You were not simply speaking to the jury you had been speaking to the ladies who really feel powerless – you gave them a voice, you stood as much as energy, it isn’t straightforward.”

He added that the survivors confirmed the world that violence “would not have to remain hidden without end” as he thanked them once more for his or her braveness.

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