Prosecutors Push For 11-year Sentence, $500,000 Fine For Diddy

Embattled euphony mogul, Sean “Diddy” Combs whitethorn look much than 11 years successful prison, arsenic US national prosecutors person urged a New York tribunal to enforce a lengthy condemnation pursuing his condemnation connected prostitution-related charges.

According to Reuters and ABC News, prosecutors successful a memo filed connected Tuesday asked for “at slightest 135 months’ imprisonment” on with a $500,000 fine.

US District Judge Arun Subramanian is scheduled to present the condemnation connected Friday successful Manhattan.

LEADERSHIP recalls that Combs, 55, was recovered blameworthy connected July 2 aft a two-month proceedings connected 2 counts of transporting antheral prostitutes crossed authorities lines to prosecute successful what prosecutors described arsenic “drug-fueled intersexual performances” with his girlfriends, portion helium watched, recorded video, and masturbated.

He was, however, acquitted connected the much superior racketeering and enactment trafficking charges, which carried a imaginable beingness sentence.

In their memo, prosecutors argued that Combs was “violent, abusive and near victims successful fear,” insisting that contempt his acquittal connected the much superior counts, helium remains “unrepentant.”

“The suspect volition not beryllium punished for immoderate crimes of which helium was acquitted, of course, but punishment for his crimes of condemnation indispensable instrumentality into relationship the mode successful which helium committed them,” prosecutors wrote.

They further alleged that Combs held powerfulness implicit the women involved, peculiarly vocalist Cassie Ventura, who was allegedly near “bloodied and bruised” arsenic seen successful edifice information footage.

“The suspect besides horrifically physically abused Ventura passim their relationship, a constituent helium conceded astatine trial,” prosecutors said, adding that the condemnation should bespeak his “decades of unchecked violence” and the “psychological, affectional and carnal harm helium has inflicted.”

On the different hand, Combs’ lawyers person asked for a overmuch lighter punishment of astir 14 months, an result that could spot him released by the extremity of the twelvemonth owed to clip already served astatine Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre since his September 16, 2024, arrest.

Defence attorneys described the government’s proposal arsenic “draconian,” claiming successful their earlier filing that it amounted to, “Verdict beryllium damned—lock him up and propulsion distant the key.”

Combs’ ineligible troubles stemmed from his September 2024 arrest, which led to aggregate national charges, including racketeering, enactment trafficking, and proscription for prostitution. His proceedings opened connected May 5, 2025, with assemblage enactment completed a week later.

After weeks of proceedings, the assemblage connected July 2 acquitted him of racketeering and enactment trafficking but convicted him connected 2 proscription counts involving Ventura and another woman.