Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been sentenced to 4 years and two months in jail.

The 50 months come after Combs spent 13 months in jail, which can rely in direction of his total sentence, that means he’ll serve three extra years behind bars.

Combs has additionally been hit with a $500,000 (£371k) positive.

Whereas Combs, 55, fought for a a lot shorter sentence of 14 months, prosecutors initially pushed for 11 years in his intercourse trafficking trial.

This night, he was sentenced in Manhattan. His sentencing additionally noticed Combs communicate publicly for the primary time in 13 months, fumbling his phrases earlier than checking over his notes.

Standing, Combs thanked the court docket and US District Choose Arun Subramanian, who oversaw his seven-week trial, for ‘giving [him] the possibility to lastly communicate up for [himself]’.

‘One of many hardest issues I’ve needed to deal with is having to be quiet—not having the ability to categorical how sorry I’m for my actions,’ he mentioned.

‘I wish to personally apologise once more to Cassie Ventura for any hurt or damage I’ve precipitated her, emotionally or bodily. I don’t take that flippantly.’

He then apologised to Ventura’s household and to Jane, one other of his accusers.

Moreover, Combs begged for forgiveness from his mom, saying: ‘Mommy, I failed you as a son, I’m sorry. You taught me higher.’

‘You raised me higher,’ he wept.

Combs additional mentioned the trial has ‘humbled’ him, leaving him ‘damaged to [his] core’.

‘I hate myself proper now. I’ve been stripped down for nothing. I actually, actually am sorry for all of it, it doesn’t matter what they are saying.’

As he handed down the sentencing, the choose condemned Combs for his ‘savage’ abuse of ex-girlfriend Ventura.

‘You abused them, bodily, emotionally and psychologically,’ he added of Combs’ therapy of his victims, shutting down the thought proposed by his legal professionals that the relationships had been consensual.

‘You had the cash and the ability to maintain it going. This was subjugation.’

He mentioned he was making an instance of him after he precipitated ‘irreparable hurt’ to his victims.

‘Deterrence requires a major sentence’, he mentioned, explaining that he was not satisfied Combs wouldn’t commit the identical crimes once more ought to he be launched.

After his sentence was confirmed, Combs turned to his household and mouthed, ‘I’m sorry’ to them.

A father to Quincy, 33, Justin, 30, Christian, 26, Probability, 18, 17-year-old twins Jessie and D’Lila, and Love, two, Combs has at all times been publicly supported by his eldest youngsters.

The rapper was accused of operating a intercourse trafficking operation and was convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution of his former girlfriend, singer Ventura, and one other lady, often called Jane, who had testified within the trial.

In July, he was discovered not responsible of probably the most critical cost of racketeering conspiracy, in addition to two costs of intercourse trafficking in relation to Ventura and Jane.

The music mogul denied all allegations towards him.

Combs has been held on the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, New York, which was beforehand dwelling to rapper R Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Forward of his sentencing, Choose Subramanian denied Combs’ authorized group’s request for a brand new trial or acquittal, ruling that the authorities ‘offered overwhelming proof of Combs’ guilt’ in the course of the trial.

‘The federal government proved its case many occasions over. That by itself could be sufficient to eliminate Combs’s problem,’ he wrote within the doc.

‘Had the unfairness certainly been so nice, one would count on a jury to convict on probably the most related counts earlier than it may spill over and infect the others. A brand new trial just isn’t warranted.’

Ventura, who was a key witness in the course of the trial, additionally submitted a sufferer impression assertion by which she revealed she had moved out of the New York space as a result of she fears retaliation if the musician walks free.

‘I’m so scared that if he walks free, his first actions can be swift retribution in direction of me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial,’ the singer mentioned.

‘As a lot progress as I’ve made in recovering from his abuse, I stay very a lot afraid of what he’s able to and the malice he undoubtedly harbours in direction of me for having the bravery to inform the reality.’

What occurred in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ trial?

Courtroom hearings started in New York in Could, with Ventura and fellow rapper Child Cudi amongst these taking the stand.

The court docket heard about Combs’ alleged days-long intercourse events, or ‘freak offs’, throughout which he allegedly coerced a number of alleged victims into intercourse acts.

After six weeks of testimony, the jury started their deliberations earlier than asserting their unanimous verdict.

Combs was arrested on September 16, 2024, and initially charged with three offences–racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution.

Two further counts of the latter two offences had been added in April, bringing the whole to 5.

What did Cassie Ventura say about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs?

‘The freak offs turned a job,’ Ventura beforehand instructed jurors, sharing that they might last as long as 36 or 48 hours, with the longest one she was concerned in taking 4 days.

These collaborating within the marathon intercourse classes would normally require restoration from drug use, dehydration and fatigue, it was claimed.

Combs would allegedly blackmail Ventura with movies of the ‘freak offs’ to get her to do extra, she claimed.

Final 12 months, after Ventura and Combs settled a swimsuit by which she alleged rape and bodily abuse over the course of their 11-year on-off relationship, CCTV footage emerged of the rapper assaulting Ventura and dragging her throughout the ground of the InterContinental Lodge in LA.

The harrowing footage was performed out in the course of the first day of his trial in Could.

Recalling the incident, Ventura mentioned in the course of the trial: ‘I simply knew I needed to get out. I grabbed my stuff and ran out as quick as I may. I made it to the elevators, received my sneakers on. The subsequent factor I used to be simply thrown to the bottom.

‘It was actually quick. I ran out with none footwear. It was quicker. Sean grabbed me by the again of my neck and threw me to the bottom.’ 

Combs beforehand issued an apology shortly after the video was made public, saying: ‘It’s so troublesome to replicate on the darkest occasions in your life, however typically you bought to do this – however I make no excuses. My behaviour on that video is inexcusable.

‘I take full duty for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I used to be disgusted then once I did it. I’m disgusted now.’

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