Convicted rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has requested a federal choose to impose a time period of not more than 14 months behind bars when he’s sentenced subsequent month, arguing he’s “made the most” of his 12 months in lockup at Brooklyn’s federal jail and is able to go residence.
His sentencing submission successfully asks that he be launched beneath time served.
“[For] decades Mr. Combs struggled with serious substance abuse issues, anger and anxiety, and other flaws that he did not properly or professionally address until his incarceration last year,” attorneys for the Harlem-born entrepreneur wrote in a sentencing submission filed late Monday.
“Mr. Combs’s near-13 months in prison has been life changing, productive, and a testament to his desire to return to his family and community and lead the best life possible. He has taken the time to achieve necessary rehabilitation from day one at the [Metropolitan Detention Center] — including getting clean of all substances.”
Combs, 55, is about to look in court docket later this week, the place Manhattan Federal Courtroom Decide Arun Subramanian will think about additional arguments on his movement for an acquittal or a brand new trial. If the choose rejects the request, he’s anticipated to condemn Combs on October 3.
A jury on July 2 discovered the disgraced mogul responsible of transporting individuals throughout the nation to interact in prostitution in violation of the federal Mann Act at sordid days-long intercourse events he referred to as “freak-offs.”
He was acquitted of extra severe costs alleging his wicked life-style was facilitated by intercourse trafficking and a racketeering conspiracy, which might have despatched him to jail for all times.
Two of Combs’ exes, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a lady who testified beneath the pseudonym Jane, alleged through the trial that he had compelled them to take part in demeaning sexual performances with intercourse employees employed off web sites like Craigslist in dank resort rooms throughout the nation for a interval of years.
They described struggling beneath a hot-headed Combs’ fists in brutal beatings.
In graphic element, Ventura described “freak-offs” as child oil-saturated periods throughout which Combs usually masturbated in a nook and filmed whereas directing her to undergo typically dehumanizing intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse employees. She mentioned he had, at factors, directed males to urinate in her mouth and compelled her to carry out whereas she was menstruating, once in a while utilizing humiliating footage as blackmail in opposition to her.
The feds had argued that the ladies’s participation couldn’t be seen as consensual, in gentle of the well-documented threats on their lives and livelihoods they confronted once they pushed again, in addition to the fixed surveillance Combs’ employees subjected them to.
However the jury finally didn’t discover that the ladies have been pressured into the “freak-offs” by power, fraud, or coercion, as alleged, nor that Combs’ community of employees have been akin to a mob boss’s henchmen in a RICO conspiracy.
The willpower got here regardless of footage proven all through the trial of Combs pummeling Ventura in a Los Angeles resort foyer, an assault she mentioned occurred after she tried to flee one of many wicked periods, and testimony from staffers about facilitating the intercourse events.
Combs’ attorneys maintained of their protection that whereas he was responsible of assaulting his romantic companions, he wasn’t charged with doing so, and the violence had no bearing on the offenses he was accused of.
“Mr. Combs, for his part, is the first to exclaim that these acts of domestic violence against Ms. Ventura are inexcusable. But the notion that the violence, or coercion, had a nexus to ‘freak-offs’ is not true, as the jury clearly found,” his attorneys wrote Monday.
“Critically, most of the evidence of violence is either completely unconnected to or attenuated from freak-offs and hotel nights.”
They wrote that his 12 months in custody, following his high-profile arrest in September 2024, had seen him adequately handle addictions and psychological well being points that contributed to his propensity for violence towards ladies.
“Mr. Combs will not do anything to subject himself to being in MDC again, given the conditions that he now knows he will be subject to,” his attorneys wrote. “It is time for Mr. Combs to go home to his family, so he can continue his treatment and try to make the most of the next chapter of his extraordinary life.”
Whereas averting a worst-case end result in his federal legal case, Combs nonetheless faces a litany of lawsuits introduced by women and men, with allegations of sexual violence courting again a long time. He maintains his innocence.
