Hip-hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sentenced to four years and two months in prison. Combs was also fined $US500,000 ($757,000) and will be subject to five years of supervised release when his sentence is served.
The sentence was handed down in New York after an eleventh hour plea for leniency from Combs’ defence lawyer Nicole Westmoreland. “Mr Combs is not larger than life, he’s just a human being,” Westmoreland said. “He’s just a man and he’s made some mistakes. He has flaws like we all do. Your honour, he gets it, plain and simple.”
An impression of Sean “Diddy” Combs in court during his trial in July. Credit: Elizabeth Williams via AP
Despite that, Judge Arun Subramanian said the court had to consider all of Combs’ history. “A history of good works can’t wash away the record in this case, which shows that you abused the power and control over the lives of women who you professed to love,” he said.
In sentencing Combs to 50 months in prison, Subramanian said he was inclined to give Combs a “meaningful” sentence, but that the 11-year sentence sought by the prosecution was “not reasonable”.
In July, Combs, 55, was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, related to his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura and a victim identified only as “Jane”. Two other charges, racketeering and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coe
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