Abstract: Combs’ sentencing listening to to date
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sentencing is constant after a short lunch break, as a choose considers the convicted hip-hop mogul’s punishment.
Right here’s a short abstract of the sentencing listening to to date. The courtroom is about to reconvene at 2:15 p.m. Japanese Time.
In July, the 55-year-old Combs was convicted of flying individuals across the nation for sexual encounters, together with his girlfriends and male intercourse employees. He was acquitted by a jury of extra critical racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking expenses.
Prosecutors say he ought to spend greater than 11 years in jail for his conviction for “transportation to interact in prostitution,” the AP stories. And Combs’ attorneys need him freed now. The prosecutors argued this morning that Combs deserved the 11 years to additionally deter extra individuals from committing such crimes. Additionally they argued that he had not owned as much as his crimes and as an alternative selected to painting himself as a sufferer in a letter addressed to the choose on Thursday evening.
Combs’ attorneys have tried to painting him as a modified man deserving leniency from the choose. Certainly one of his attorneys, Nicole Westmoreland, even teared up throughout the sentencing listening to when discussing Combs’ accomplishments as a Black entrepreneur.
Six of his youngsters took the stand, with two of his daughters breaking down in tears as they learn their ready statements. Combs, himself, additionally cried throughout the listening to.
Earlier than the lunch break, Combs’ attorneys performed an 11-minute-long video, the place Combs is seen along with his youngsters, praying and interesting in philanthropic work.
Attorneys additionally emphasised that Combs taught lessons in jail and gave recommendation to different inmates on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, a looming federal jail within the Sundown Park neighborhood.
Three extra protection legal professionals – and even Combs himself – are anticipated to talk in courtroom after getting back from lunch.
Share
Up to date at 14.11 EDT
Key occasions
Present key occasions solely
Please activate JavaScript to make use of this function
Protection lawyer Xavier Donaldson is the following to talk, arguing that Combs doesn’t deserve a harsh penalty alongside the strains of a convicted “pimp” as a result of he didn’t recruit girls to interact in paid intercourse work, nor did he make any cash off of their work
“The federal government equates Sean Combs with a pimp. I wish to be clear Mr. Combs isn’t a pimp,” Donaldson informed the courtroom, in response to NBC Information. “A pimp is within the enterprise of subjugating girls, subsequently he mustn’t and can’t be thought-about a pimp.”
Donaldson additionally took concern with the prosecution’s earlier declare that Combs had preemptively scheduled “talking engagements” in Miami for subsequent week beneath the idea that he could be launched, reported the New York Instances.
He clarified that Combs would fill his time upon launch “not with talking engagements, however with instructing engagements” for the incarcerated in South Florida.
Share
Listed below are a number of the courtroom sketches which have come by means of so removed from at this time’s listening to. The drawings depict Combs turning into emotional as his youngsters addressed the courtroom and as his protection video performed.
Sean “Diddy” Combs turns into emotional as his youngsters go to the rostrum to make affect statements throughout a courtroom sentencing, after the music mogul was convicted on expenses of transporting prostitutes to interact in drug-fueled sexual performances, in New York Metropolis, U.S., October 3, 2025 on this courtroom sketch. {Photograph}: Jane Rosenberg/ReutersOn this courtroom sketch, Sean Diddy Combs breaks down and cries throughout the taking part in of a video about his life throughout his sentencing listening to in Manhattan federal courtroom, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in New York. {Photograph}: Elizabeth Williams/APSean “Diddy” Combs sits along with his legal professionals Nicole Westmoreland, Brian Metal, and Alexandra Shapiro throughout a courtroom sentencing, after the music mogul was convicted on expenses of transporting prostitutes to interact in drug-fueled sexual performances, in New York Metropolis, U.S., October 3, 2025 on this courtroom sketch. {Photograph}: Jane Rosenberg/ReutersShare
When talking about Combs’ previous, Metal additionally introduced up Combs’ former shut good friend, Christopher Wallace (generally known as the rapper Biggie Smalls and the Infamous B.I.G) and the way his 1997 homicide impacted Combs.
He additionally spoke about his consumer’s dependancy to painkillers following a medical process in 2000. After that, Combs was excessive “each single day,” Metal stated, in response to the Related Press.
“He was medicating as a result of his physique was damage and his feelings have been damage,” he added. “However he by no means stopped working. And all of that, the drug dependancy and the trauma — untreated, your honor — induced him to hit, occasionally… the lady he cherished.”
Metal stated Combs stays haunted by his violent outbursts, remembering “each strike” he’s inflicted.
Combs “has punished himself greater than anybody will be capable to punish him and it’ll stick with him for the remainder of his days,” Metal argued. “Mr. Combs doesn’t want any further time in custody. That isn’t the best way we deal with” drug dependancy and trauma at this time, he stated.
Share
Metal pleads for lighter sentence, highlighting violence in jail
Brian Metal, one among Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorneys is pleading with a choose for a lighter sentence, whereas discussing situations on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, the place he’s presently held.
“He lives with 25 individuals, in a single room. There’s a TV space, a supposed mattress. There are medication there. He has not taken medication,” Metal reportedly stated to the choose, in response to Interior Metropolis Press. “There’s violence. The water is polluted. You need to boil it. There are screams day and evening.”
The Metropolitan Detention Heart is positioned within the Sundown Park neighborhood in Brooklyn. It’s a looming federal jail, the place many high-profile detainees are being held. Amongst them are Luigi Mangione, Mexican drug lords Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Rafael Caro Quintero.
Share
Up to date at 15.13 EDT
An lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs stated in courtroom that he “would have pled responsible to the Mann Act” expenses, however that prosecutors didn’t supply that deal.
Violating the Mann Act is what Combs was ultimately convicted of earlier this yr. The regulation prohibits transporting people throughout state strains for sexual exercise.
Share
Combs lawyer Brian Metal speaks of mogul’s ‘untreated trauma’ and ‘ferocious’ dependancy
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyer, Brian Metal, is addressing the courtroom, breaking down the previous trauma Combs skilled.
“I sit right here with tears in my eyes as a result of I can’t consider we’re right here,” Metal stated, in response to CNN. “Please take into account the next two causes I consider we’re right here: untreated trauma — nice trauma in Sean’s life — and a ferocious drug dependancy that obtained out of hand.”
Metal additionally mentioned Combs’ father’s killing and Combs’ historical past of drug dependancy.
Share
Up to date at 14.30 EDT
The sentencing listening to for Sean “Diddy” Combs is again in session, with federal choose Arun Subramanian again on the bench.
Share
Abstract: Combs’ sentencing listening to to date
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sentencing is constant after a short lunch break, as a choose considers the convicted hip-hop mogul’s punishment.
Right here’s a short abstract of the sentencing listening to to date. The courtroom is about to reconvene at 2:15 p.m. Japanese Time.
In July, the 55-year-old Combs was convicted of flying individuals across the nation for sexual encounters, together with his girlfriends and male intercourse employees. He was acquitted by a jury of extra critical racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking expenses.
Prosecutors say he ought to spend greater than 11 years in jail for his conviction for “transportation to interact in prostitution,” the AP stories. And Combs’ attorneys need him freed now. The prosecutors argued this morning that Combs deserved the 11 years to additionally deter extra individuals from committing such crimes. Additionally they argued that he had not owned as much as his crimes and as an alternative selected to painting himself as a sufferer in a letter addressed to the choose on Thursday evening.
Combs’ attorneys have tried to painting him as a modified man deserving leniency from the choose. Certainly one of his attorneys, Nicole Westmoreland, even teared up throughout the sentencing listening to when discussing Combs’ accomplishments as a Black entrepreneur.
Six of his youngsters took the stand, with two of his daughters breaking down in tears as they learn their ready statements. Combs, himself, additionally cried throughout the listening to.
Earlier than the lunch break, Combs’ attorneys performed an 11-minute-long video, the place Combs is seen along with his youngsters, praying and interesting in philanthropic work.
Attorneys additionally emphasised that Combs taught lessons in jail and gave recommendation to different inmates on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, a looming federal jail within the Sundown Park neighborhood.
Three extra protection legal professionals – and even Combs himself – are anticipated to talk in courtroom after getting back from lunch.
Share
Up to date at 14.11 EDT
In the meantime, outdoors of the courthouse, an unique dancer who testified on the trial is selling a self-help e book that he wrote.
Sharay Hayes who glided by the stage title “The Punisher” testified on the trial about being paid to have intercourse with Combs’ girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
“It’s been a loopy couple of months for me,” he stated, reported the Related Press.
Hayes stated he believes that the choose ought to sentence Diddy to the time he’s already served in jail.
Cassie has requested for a more durable sentence. She informed the courtroom she was manipulated into collaborating in sexual encounters with different males, and that Combs regularly beat her.
Sharay “Punisher” Hayes, a witness within the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trials, speaks outdoors the Manhattan Federal Courtroom throughout the sentencing of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, convicted on two counts associated to prostitution beneath the federal Mann Act, on October 3, 2025, in New York. {Photograph}: Erik Pendzich/ShutterstockShare
The sentencing listening to is now breaking for lunch till 2:15PM ET, when extra of Combs’ legal professionals and supporters are set to talk.
The lunch break follows the protection taking part in an roughly 11 minute-long video the place Combs is seen along with his youngsters, praying and interesting in philanthropic work, in response to the Related Press.
Share
Star’s youngsters inform courtroom their father is a ‘modified man’
Combs’ youngsters are actually addressing the courtroom.
Quincy Brown, Combs’ eldest son, and his brother, Justin Brown, are presently talking in assist of their father alongside their 4 different siblings.
Quincy stated that he and his siblings love their father unconditionally, and that Combs has since turn out to be a “modified man” who has realized his lesson, reported NBC Information.
Justin added that he hopes his father shall be granted the chance “to proper this improper and to be the person he actually is.” He added that Combs is now drug-free.
Likelihood Combs, his eldest daughter, informed the choose that whereas her father was incarcerated, she has seen modifications in him that “really feel actual and lasting,” in response to the New York Instances.
“After we speak he speaks with a transparent thoughts and sense of objective that I didn’t all the time hear earlier than,” she stated.
Combs was seen crying and wiping away tears as his youngsters spoke.
Share
Up to date at 13.03 EDT
Protection lawyer in tears as she tells courtroom Combs helped and impressed many individuals
One other protection lawyer, Nicole Westmoreland, reportedly broke down in tears whereas discussing Combs’ significance to the Black neighborhood stemming from his entrepreneurial work in trend, liquor, TV and music, along with proudly owning a file label.
Westmoreland described the “assist and inspiration” Combs has given others all through his life, and the dedication that Combs made whereas he’s been held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart, reported the New York Instances.
“Mr. Combs beginning his personal file label as a Black, younger male again then was nearly type of jokeable. However he had the audacity to do it anyway,” Westmoreland stated.
“This modified the business, and it modified the tradition, however extra importantly, it modified numerous people’ lives, as a result of what individuals acknowledged is that if Mr. Combs might do it, then they might do it too,” she stated, in response to CNN.
“Mr. Combs sporting all of these hats,” she added, “despatched a message that you are able to do it. You don’t simply must be signed to a label, you could be the label.”
Share
Up to date at 12.55 EDT
Protection lawyer Jason Driscoll has begun his assertion.
A number of protection attorneys are anticipated to talk on Combs’ behalf. Driscoll stated he shall be addressing sentencing disparities.
Driscoll started by recapping his consumer’s convictions beneath the Mann Act on the bottom finish of the spectrum of severity. The Mann Act is commonly used to prosecute defendants who profited from industrial intercourse operations, exploited minors or transported susceptible victims.
“Sean Combs didn’t make a single cent off his Mann Act conduct,” he stated, in response to CNN. “That aggravating issue is totally off the desk on this case.”
The prosecutors have acknowledged that Combs didn’t revenue from the prostitution on this case, Driscoll stated.
Share
