Prosecutors say Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deserves at least 11 years in prison

Federal prosecutors are recommending that Sean “Diddy” Combs Being sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for its role in the transport of male prostitutes between states for drug-watered sex marathons with their ex-girlfriends, whom he drove and filmed.

“Punishment for their crimes should take into account the way he committed them”wrote the promoters in their 164-page memorandum, filed on Monday at the end of midnight and obtained by Rolling Stone. “Their crimes are serious and justified sentences of more than ten years in multiple cases for defendants who, like Sean Combs, got involved in violence and frightened others.”

In statements of impact of the victims, the ex-girlfriend of Combs, Casandra “Cassie” Venturaand a former assistant who witnessed under the pseudonym “Mia”they asked the judge to consider carefully their distressing testimonials of the trial before the sentence of Combs at the audience of Friday. In the bank of witnesses in May, Harshness He detailed as he felt powerless to refuse to participate in sex sessions to three highly orchestrated with companions, known as Freak-Offs. She claimed that Combs He stroked her, manipulated and threatened during a decade relationship, and that he beaten her regularly, punched, trampled her face and threw her to the floor.

“Although the jury seems to have not understood or believed that I participated in the” Freak-Offs “because of the strength and coercion that the defendant used against me, I know this is the truth, and his sentence should reflect the reality of the evidence and my experience lived as a victim,” she wrote on Monday’s letter.

Mia told the judge that Combs the “He imprisoned” in “A world of terror, abuse, humiliation and coercive control”. Echoing his testimony, in which he stated that Combs physically abused her, sexually assaulted and raped her, Mia said your relationship with Combs left it in a state of “Constant fear”. “The years of abuse have reconfigured my brain. Even today, I feel trapped in the mental and emotional standards he created. I live with chronic and severe PTS, depression and paralyzing anxiety.”he wrote Mia.

Combs55, he has spent more than a year in federal custody after his arrest in September 2024. On July 2, a jury sentenced him for two transportation charges for prostitution purposes. The jurors rejected a trio of more serious accusations, concluding that the prosecutors could not prove that Combs He led a criminal association or sexually trafficked two ex-girlfriends. The acquittals meant that Combs It no longer faced the possibility of life imprisonment. At the time, the tycoon clenched his fist and fell to his knees as he celebrated in court.

For their two convictions, parole officials recommended a sentence of 70 to 87 months in prison, or approximately six to seven years. The defense of Combs He asked no more than 14 months, which would probably see him released by the end of the year if not immediately.

In the 182 -page petition of the defense, presented last week, his lawyers detail the life story of Combs in an apparent attempt at mercy, saying that Combs He suffered in his childhood after his father’s murder when he was only three years old. They argued that the loss caused a “deep trauma” that prepared the terrain for the problems of abuse of substances with which Combs He fought during his violent relationships.

Their lawyers also attached more than 75 support letters from family and friends, including the mother of Combs, Janice; Your sister Keisha; its three teenage daughters, Chance, Jessie and D’Lila; and your ex-girlfriend Yung Miamithe rapper of City girls.

In addition to Harshness and Miatwo other former employees of Combs, Capricorn Clark and Deon Nashthey filed statements on Monday arguing against any mercy. Clark said that witnessing about the day Combs supposedly kidnapped her under the aim of a weapon was one of the “Most Difficult Moments” of your life. “It is insane to me that, of all the things people have heard, two accusations of prostitution of men are the only thing left.”he wrote Clark.

Nasha designer who said to the jurors that Combs strangle him on two occasions, he wrote that Combs “It has left a long trail of victims, many of which are still afraid.”

The two accusations of prostitution Combsviolations of a centenary law known as Law Mann, each carry a maximum sentence of 10 years. The defense of Combs He argued that it would be illegal for the court to consider, during the deliberation of the sentence, evidence of his trial related to the accusations he was acquitted. “What is the meaning of a judgment with jury if the defendant can be acquitted, but then sentenced as if he had been condemned?wrote.

The US district judge, Arun Subramanianwill have wide freedom in the sentence of Combs on October 3. It is unclear how he will decide, but on the day of the verdict, he denied the bail of Combspointing to the voluntary admission of the defense itself during the trial that Combs It was violent with Harshness and another victim. In its final allegations, the lawyer of Combs I explicitly said to the jurors that the defense was not contesting the allegations of domestic violence.

By rejecting the bail request, the judge Subramanian pointed to the disturbing video of the attack Combs the Harshness in 2016 in a hotel in Los Angeles, before sending a Combs seemingly shocked back to custody. Seriously, the judge noted that the video was not the only violence recognized by the defense. “This type of violence, which happens to closed doors in personal relationships, triggered by unpredictable outbreaks of anger, is impossible to police with conditions ”said the judge on July 2.