Sean “Didi” Combs On Friday, he was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for transferring people through the state lines for sexual confrontations, crowning a harsh federal case that included a horrific testimony and ended with a strong account of one of the most popular figures in hip -hop.
Koms, 55, was also fined half a million dollars. Since COMBS has already served a year in prison, this sentence means that it will be released within three years. His lawyer wanted him Frelect immediately He said that the time behind bars had already been forced his remorse and sobriety.
In July, he was convicted of raising his friends and male sex workers throughout the country to participate in sexual confrontations that are nourishing drugs, a practice that occurred over many years and in various locations. However, he was acquitted of the smuggling of sex and smuggling that he could have put behind the bars for life.
“Why did a long time?” The American boycott judge, Aaron Supramian, asked the verdict. “Because you had the strength and resources necessary to continue this, and because you were not arrested.”
Coms did not show any clear change in emotion as he learned his punishment, sits on his chair and looked forward directly as the judge speaks. He remained defeated after that and appeared depressed, and was none of the enthusiasm and smiles that accompanied his interactions with lawyers and his family earlier in the day. He said, “I am sorry, I’m sorry” to his family before leaving the courtroom.
In a final speech before issuing the ruling, Combs made an appeal to lenient.
“I ask your honor an opportunity to be a father again,” he said again … “I apologize to people who were physically and mentally injured with his” disgusting, shameful actions, “and said that domestic violence was a burden that would bring him to the rest of his life.
Earlier, Koms cried when defense lawyers played a video in the court filming his family life, professional life and charitable work.
A two -month trial appeared in a federal court in Manhattan Women certificate Who said compass overcame, threat, sexual assault and blackmail. Prosecutor Christie Slavic told the judge to spare prison diseases for years of violence.
She said: “It is an issue about a man who did terrible things for real people to satisfy his sexual satisfaction.” “He didn’t need money. His currency was control.”
Complete condemned by the Man of Man, which prohibits the transfer of people through state lines to prostitution. Defense lawyer, Jason Drichol, argued that the law had been implemented.
During a trial certificate, a former girlfriend Cassandra “Cassi” Vinterora The jury told the “disgusting” sex compass with hundreds of times during their time, which lasted a decade. The jurors watched a video of him and hit her in Holosh, a hotel in Los Angeles, after one of these “horror”.
“While nothing can back away from the shock caused by nations,” Cassi’s lawyer, Douglas Wigdour and Merridith “The sentence imposed today is aware of the effect of the serious crimes he committed,” Firetog said in a statement.
Another woman, she was recognized as “Gene“She witnessed that she was pressured in sex with male workers during” hotel nights “that are nourishing by drugs while she saw Koms and sometimes photographing her.
The only suspect who is scheduled to speak on Friday, a former assistant known as “MIA”, withdrew after the defense objections. she has She accused combs of raping her In 2010, the judge asked the prison sentence to reflect the “continuous danger posed by the aggressor.”
The daughters of Combs and Delilla Combs shouted when they spoke in court on Friday, with Dala’s saying that she is afraid to lose her father after the death of their mother Kim Porter, in 2018.
“Please, your honor, please,” Delle said through tears, “Give our family the opportunity to recover together, to rebuild, to change, to move forward, not like a title, but as human beings.”
Outside the court, journalists and spectators gathered, echoing scenes from the Compass trial.
Sad Piece, one of the Coms fans of Brooklyn, left the surplus surveillance room in the court that looks sad and comfortable.
She said: “It is destructive to see a pioneer in the heritage of black society diminishing.” “But the judge showed mercy by giving him a second chance, while he still honors the victims.”
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2025-10-03 22:43:00