Moment Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs learned his sentence in court

Three months ago, Sean “Diddy” Kombs fell to the knees in the Hall of the Manhattan court after the jury of New York justified him on charges of trading in sexual trade and racketeering.

“I come home,” he said, turning his face to his family, who supported him every day of the trial.

On Friday, a muffled version of the hip-hop magnate sat without emotional and still in his chair, since the judge sentenced him to more than four years in prison.

After Judge Arun Subramanyan finished reading his proposal, the rapper turned to look at his family, and seemed to become the words: “I love you, sorry.”

It was a quiet moment to note the end of a chaotic eight -legged test, which forever changed the image of society about combs – once one of the most famous rappers in the world. The jury saw graphic videos with the so -called Freak Offs Combs – sexy parties that he shot with the participation of hired male escorts and his former Cassandra Ventura and Jane, anonymous victim. They also saw a video that previously became viral, he beat Ventura in the corridor at the hotel.

In July, a group of 12 residents of New York acquitted 55 -year -old Combs on charges of trading in sexual trade and racketeering, which brought the potential of life in prison, but found him guilty of transport to participate in prostitution.

His lawyers hoped that he would leave prison for several weeks, asking the court for a period of 14 months, 13 of which he had already left.

The prosecutors accused the Combs of committing a criminal enterprise to force women to be undesirable and based on drugs of sexual intercourse. Despite the fact that he was justified by the most serious of these accusations, sex trail and racketeering, they asked to be sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.

Ultimately, the judge of the Subramanian said in “submitted combos” that his crimes and abuse of his ex -friend were justified 50 months of prison.

As he told the court that Combs used his glory and strength to “subjugate” his victims, the musical tycoon did not look up, remaining reckless for the 20-minute speech of the judge. His environment more than 30 family members were packed in the courtroom behind him.

Throughout the day, the court listened to the hours of speeches from several of his lawyers, his children, pastor and lawyer on the reform of criminal justice, who informed the court that the Combs was a changed and sober person since detention.

They also watched a video collector from his legal team showing him with children, as well as the funeral of his former friend Kim Porter, the mother of some of his children who died in 2018.

But the court did not hear from the victims themselves, after one person who planned to speak, Mia, a former assistant ComBS, who testified anonymously, pulled out after the defense wrote a letter calling it a liar.

Subramanian called the letter “inappropriate” and thanked “strong women” for making accusations against the Combs, telling them that they did not “simply spoke with 12 men and women in the jury.”

Instead of his own statements on Friday, the Subramanyan read several comments from the victims from the testimony, reporting the Combs: “These were serious crimes that irreparably harm to two women.”

Combs himself first appealed to the trial from the beginning of his trial.

Inhaling with a great sigh before performing to read his speech, he begged the judge of “mercy.”

He read with glasses from a sheet of paper in front of him, trying to maintain visual contact with the judge when he told him: “I have anyone who is to blame except himself.”

He broke up when he turned around to meet with his family and tell his mother: “I failed you as a son.”

During the hearing were not the first tears.

Many of the supporters of Combs cried when six of his seven children came to the podium to ask the judge for an easy sentence, telling him that they needed their father. Three daughters and three sons crowded with their own hands, wrapped around each other, when some of them cried, talking with the judge.

The judge said during his sentencing that he took into account the family ties of Combs, but said that he should also take into account the damage that he caused to his two victims.

The crimes were serious, he added, noting that they took place even after a federal investigation and leakage of a video showing it to beleaning the venture in the hotel corridor.

“The story of good works cannot wash your record,” he said.

But, he said alarmed combing, who tilted his head twice and sighed, at the end of his imprisonment there was light.

“Mr. Combs, you and your family, you are going to cope with this,” he said.

When the judge finished making his speech, Combs quickly died to his dozens of family members and friends before quietly passing the door to take him back to the federal prison in Brooklyn.