It’s time to face the music.
Fallen music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs could be locked up for more than a decade as he faces sentencing Friday.
Combs, 55, will learn his fate during a 10 a.m. hearing in the same Manhattan federal courtroom where jurors found him guilty of prostitution charges after a salacious sex crimes trial.
Federal prosecutors have urged Judge Arun Subramanian to sentence the “unrepentant” Combs to more than 11 years, while the Bad Boy Records’ lawyers argue he should be released with 14 months time served.
Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced Friday. Getty Images
People wait to enter the court for the sentencing hearing of Sean “Diddy” Combs. REUTERS
Diddy supporters wait outside court prior to Diddy’s sentencing. REUTERS
Line waiters holding spots for clients outside of Federal Court in Manhattan for the sentencing. William FarringtonThe ultimate sentence likely will be a far cry from what Combs could have served if he was convicted on his top charges of sex-trafficking and racketeering — which carried up to life in prison.
But jurors ultimately found Combs guilty of lesser prostitution charges after the blockbuster trial drew to a close in July.
The two-month trial exposed the Bad Boy Records’ depraved, violent secrets in often-nauseating detail, including his predilection for “freak offs” — dehumanizing, baby oil-soaked and drug-fueled romps in which he watched his girlfriends have sex with male escorts.
The two-month trial exposed Combs’ depraved secrets. Department of JusticeOne of those ex-girlfriends — R&B singer Cassie Ventura — took the stand for four grueling days while nine months pregnant, bravely recounting Combs’ twisted kinks, horrific abuse and vengeful threats to release sex tapes.
Dozens of other prosecution witnesses were called to bolster the case that Combs was the kingpin of a criminal enterprise crew that plotted a bevy of crimes over decades, including setting Kid Cudi’s Porsche on fire and breaking into his home in a jealous rage over the rapper’s relationship with Ventura.
Combs’ baby oil-soaked “freak-off” sex parties were a focus of the trial. FilmMagicCombs, 55, argued that the “freak off” encounters were consensual.
He has been locked up in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since his September 2024 arrest.
Prosecutors, despite not winning a conviction on the top charges, argued that Combs’ reign of terror deserves a hefty sentence.
“His crimes of conviction are serious and have warranted sentences over ten years in multiple cases for defendants who, like Sean Combs, engaged in violence and put others in fear,” they wrote in court papers.
Still, in a desperate letter to the judge on the eve of his highly anticipated sentencing, Combs insisted that he’d undergone a “spiritual reset” and vowed to make the judge “proud” if released.
“I can’t change the past, but I can change the future. I know that God put me here to transform me. Since incarceration, I have gone through a spiritual reset. I’m on a journey that will take time and hard work. I’m proud to say I’m working harder than I ever have before. I’m committed to the journey of remaining a drug free, non-violent and peaceful person. I thank God that I’m stronger, wiser, clean, clear and sober. God makes no mistakes,” he wrote.
His defense attorneys are also planning to play an 11-minute video in court that shows the disgraced music mogul in a positive light – including footage of him raising his children, praying with relatives and his past philanthropy work with school kids in the Big Apple.
