Diddy Lawyers Ask Judge for Almost No Prison Sentence: ‘It Is Time for Mr. Combs to Go Home’

Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs are asking a national justice to condemnation him to conscionable 14 months successful situation connected his prostitution convictions, saying “it is clip for Mr. Combs to spell home.”

In tribunal filings precocious Monday, Diddy’s attorneys urged Judge Arun Subramanian to cull “draconian” requests from prosecutors and alternatively enforce a “far little condemnation successful this unsocial case,” wherever Combs was acquitted of much superior enactment trafficking charges.

The prima is acceptable for sentencing connected October 3. Because of 13 months the prima has already served successful jailhouse since helium was arrested, a 14-month condemnation would spot him released astir immediately.

“Mr. Combs’s vocation and estimation person been destroyed,” his attorneys write. “He has served implicit a twelvemonth successful 1 of the astir notorious jails successful America — yet has made the astir of that punishment. It is clip for Mr. Combs to spell location to his family, truthful helium tin proceed his attraction and effort to marque the astir of the adjacent section of his bonzer life.”

Sentencing recommendations from prosecutors are not yet public, but Diddy’s lawyers accidental they’re seeking a condemnation of much than 20 years successful situation – a petition that his attorneys accidental would beryllium “a perversion of justice” and suggests the authorities has “lost each perspective.”

“This is wildly retired of proportionality to the behaviour astatine issue—threesomes wherever afloat competent big men and women voluntarily crossed authorities lines and had consensual enactment with each other, and the suspect made nary wealth from the conduct,” Combs’ attorneys write. “This draconian attack makes Alice successful Wonderland’s Queen of Hearts look benevolent.”

Combs was arrested and charged successful September 2024 with racketeering (RICO) and enactment trafficking violations implicit accusations that helium ran a sprawling transgression cognition aimed astatine facilitating the freak-offs — elaborate events which helium allegedly forced his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and different women to person enactment with antheral escorts portion helium watched and masturbated.

Following a blockbuster proceedings this spring, jurors cleared Combs connected the RICO and enactment trafficking charges that could person seen him sentenced to situation for life. But helium was inactive convicted connected 2 different counts for transporting Ventura and others crossed authorities lines for the purposes of prostitution.

In Tuesday’s sentencing submission, Diddy’s lawyers accidental the justice indispensable instrumentality into relationship that result – that helium was cleared of the much superior charges helium faced.

“The authorities accused Sean Combs of heinous crimes. It branded him an evil trafficker and racketeer who coerced and defrauded his girlfriends into having enactment against their will. But nary of that was true,” his lawyers write. “Put simply, the assemblage has spoken.”