The music tycoon will be “Diddy” combs will learn on Friday how long it will serve in prison for transporting prostitutes through state lines to participate in drug fed sexual actions that he called “monsters.”
His sentence occurs a year after federal prosecutors revealed a radical accusation that painted Bad Boy's entertainment as a mafia style operation designed to allow women of sex trafficking for their own desire. But in July, a jury cleared him from the most serious positions: extortion and sexual trafficking, after a federal criminal trial in New York.
Even so, the eight men and four women found combs, 55, guilty of two transport positions for prostitution, each with a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Federal prosecutors are asking the judge of the United States District Court, Arun Subramanian, to condemn the combs at 11 years and 3 months and a fine of $ 500,000.
They argue that the “relevant conduct” revealed in the trial, where witnesses testified that he beat their girlfriends and gave them illegal drugs, should be considered in the sentence. Prostitutes participated in drug fed with drug fed “Freak-Offs” with the then combs girlfriend.
“The defendant tries to recast decades of abuse as simply the function of mutually toxic relations,” prosecutors wrote. “But there is nothing mutual in a relationship in which a person has all the powerful and bruised and bruised ends.”
The former combs girlfriend and the most prominent witness of the trial, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, wrote in a letter to the judge that he should consider “the many lives that are combs flew with his abuse and control …”
“The sexual acts became my full -time work,” Ventura wrote in one of the seven letters attached to the request for prosecutors. “His power over me eroded my independence and sense of me until I felt a choice but to submit.”
In his own letter to the judge before his sentence on Friday, Comink said he was assuming “full responsibility and responsibility” for his “past errors”, and apologized for the pain he has caused to others.
“I have to admit that my fall was rooted in my selfishness. The scene and the images of me assaulting Cassie play again and again in my head daily. I literally lost my head. I was completely wrong for putting my hands on the woman I loved. I'm sorry and I will always be,” combs “I lost my course. I lost myself on my trip. I lost in drugs and excess. My fall was rooted in my selfishness. I have been humiliated and broken in my essence.”
After the verdict on July 2, Comps fell on his knees and placed his head in his chair as in prayer. “Mr. Combs has received his life by this jury,” defense lawyer Marcnifilo said to the judge.
The legal drama generated global attention and offered a graphic vision often violent about the life of one of the most powerful musical figures in the nation and its company of almost billions of dollars.
During the trial, the jurors listened to three women, their two ex -girlfriends and a personal assistant, who described a culture within the empire that prosecutors were compared to an operation of the top of the mafia.
The prosecutors portrayed combs and their associates as attracting the victims, often under the pretext of a romantic relationship. Once they had won their interest, prosecutors said the combs used strength, threats of strength, coercion and drugs to participate in sexual acts with male prostitutes while occasionally observed.
On the stand, the witnesses testified that combs gave the women ketamine, ecstasy and GHB to “keep them obedient and fulfilled” during the performances.
The Government's case was largely based on three key witnesses: the combs lover, Ventura, whose civil demand 2023 began to unravel the combs empire; His most recent ex -girlfriend, which was identified only as Jane; and his former assistant, identified in the court only as mine.
Cassie Ventura and Sean “Diddy” combs attend the Met gala on May 7, 2018 in New York City.
(John Shearer/The Hollywood Reporter)
The prosecutors accused the combs under the Law of Rackeer Organizations influenced and corrupt, commonly known as Rico, which requires that a defendant be part of a company involved in at least two open criminal acts of 35 crimes listed by the Government. These crimes include murder, bribery and extortion. But rich cases are difficult to process by design, legal experts say.
In the trial, Ventura testified that he felt “trapped” in a cycle of physical and sexual abuse by combs, and that the relationship involved years of batteries, sexual blackmail and rape. She affirmed that Comps threatened to filter videos of her sexual encounters with male prostitutes under the influence of drugs.
One of those monsters led to an infamous hotel beating that was captured in the hotel security cameras. The video images of that March night 2016 show the combs and kick Ventura while falling and tries to protect themselves in front of an elevator bank of the hotel. Then he drags her down the hall with his hoodie to his hotel room.
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A second angle from another camera captures combs by throwing a vase towards her. She suffered bruises in her eye, a swollen lip and a bruise that prosecutors showed was still visible during a premiere of a movie two days later, where she wore sunglasses and heavy makeup on the red carpet.
At the trial, prosecutors said combs and members of their group worked to cover up the incident. Eddie García, a former Security Guard of the Intercontinental Hotel, testified that ComBs gave him a brown paper bag containing $ 100,000 in cash for the video.
The combs defense team was aggressive in the interrogation, marking witnesses about why they did not inform the celebrity at that time or simply left it.
His lawyers said the sexual encounters with their girlfriends were consensual, and Ventura was in a long -term relationship. The hotel incident was a disagreement about a cell phone and was not part of a sexual encounter.
