Sean “Diddy” Combs needs to be sprung from jail on time served when he’s sentenced subsequent month for organising baby-oil-fueled intercourse romps with escorts who traveled throughout state traces.
The disgraced hip-hop mogul, 55, who has been cooling his heels at a Brooklyn lockup since his September 2024 arrest, urged a Manhattan choose to order his launch when his destiny is revealed on Oct.3, in keeping with a brand new request filed by his authorized workforce late Monday evening.
“Up to now two years, Mr. Combs’s profession and fame have been destroyed. He has served over a yr in probably the most infamous jails in America—but has made essentially the most of that punishment,” his attorneys wrote to the courtroom. “It’s time for Mr. Combs to go residence to his household, so he can proceed his remedy and attempt to profit from the following chapter of his extraordinary life…It’s the solely simply and truthful sentence that could possibly be imposed.”
Combs was spared a possible life sentence in July when jurors discovered him not responsible of racketeering and intercourse trafficking fees — regardless of two girls testifying that he compelled them into dwelling out his degrading sexual fantasies throughout their tumultuous relationships.
However the fallen rap icon nonetheless faces as much as 10 years in jail after he was convicted on two counts of breaking the Mann Act, a federal regulation making it a criminal offense to move somebody throughout state traces for prostitution.
Decide Arun Subramanian, who oversaw the two-month trial in Manhattan federal courtroom, is now set to determine how lengthy the “I’ll Be Lacking U” rapper will spend behind bars.
The salacious case make clear Combs’ style for “freak-offs” — grueling, drug-fueled intercourse marathons wherein he watched his girlfriend carry out intercourse acts with male escorts — and revealed the brazen steps he took to cover his bodily abuse of his lovers from the general public.
Combs’ attorneys admitted that he beat his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, and one other former lover who used an alias “Jane” — together with a horrific 2016 assault on Ventura inside a Los Angeles resort that was caught on surveillance video.
However they argued that each girls consented to the sexual encounters, and confirmed jurors the intercourse tapes Combs fabricated from a number of of the “freak-offs,” plus express texts the ladies despatched him whereas courting him.
Ventura, who sparked the regulation enforcement probe into Combs when she went public together with her allegations in a bombshell 2023 lawsuit, testified that her then-boss at Dangerous Boy Information used the specter of releasing the intercourse tapes to coerce her into lots of of “freak-offs” with escorts.
“I feared for my profession. I feared for my household. It’s simply embarrassing. It’s horrible and disgusting. Nobody ought to do this to anybody,” she testified.
One other lover, “Jane,” testified that Combs compelled her to have intercourse with an escort hours after kicking, choking and punching her in a vicious assault.
“Is that this coercion?” Combs chillingly requested her — earlier than ordering his battered lover to carry out oral intercourse on the male intercourse employee within the June 18, 2024, nightmare, the lady informed jurors.
The jury of eight males and 4 girls nonetheless acquitted Combs of fees of intercourse trafficking Ventura and “Jane” by power, fraud or coercion.
In addition they discovered Combs not responsible of racketeering conspiracy after prosecutors charged that the jet-setting businessman led Dangerous Boy Information like a legal enterprise.
Jurors noticed proof that Combs and his former chief of workers, Kristina Khorram, conspired to pay safety guards $100,000 to bury footage of Combs assaulting Ventura inside an LA resort in March 2016. The video later surfaced in Could 2024 and was performed for jurors on the trial.
The courtroom additionally heard proof that Combs ordered his safety workforce to power Ventura to spend days at a time in inns after his repeated beatings, to cover her seen bruises and preserve his violence secret.
However in contrast to in lots of high-profile racketeering instances, no member of Combs’ interior circle “flipped” on him by testifying in opposition to him in courtroom.
Combs’ attorneys efficiently claimed at trial that he was responsible of home violence, however not the intercourse trafficking and racketeering raps that the feds had charged him with.
Combs is due again in courtroom for a listening to Thursday morning, with federal prosecutors set to make their very own sentencing advice to the choose by subsequent Monday.
