Federal prosecutors say Sean “Diddy” Combs ought to face greater than 11 years in prison, arguing he deserves a steep sentence for bodily and mentally abusing his girlfriends and workers for years.
In a 161-page submitting, prosecutors urged Judge Arun Subramanian to reject Combs’ request for a sentence of 14 months, primarily time served, as a result of they argue he hasn’t proven any regret and as a substitute has sought in charge the victims within the case.
“Time and again he has shown that he is concerned only with his own power and control. Only a significant term of imprisonment—meted out in a substantial number of years— can effectively deter him and show future victims that their abusers will be held accountable, no matter their wealth or fame,” prosecutors wrote in a memo to the decide filed late Monday.
They are additionally seeking the utmost tremendous allowed of $500,000.
The US probation division has really useful a sentence ranging between 5 and 7 years in prison. Combs is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.
Prosecutors submitted letters from Cassie Ventura, her mother and father, and former workers who urged the decide to contemplate the victims, a few of whom concern retribution. Combs’ former girlfriend, who testified beneath the pseudonym Jane, didn’t submit a letter to the decide.
Combs was convicted in July of two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution, which carry a most sentence of 10 years on every depend. The jury acquitted him of racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking fees for allegedly forcing his girlfriends to have intercourse with paid male escorts at drug-fueled nights known as “Freak Offs” or “hotel nights.”
In her letter to Judge Subramanian, Ventura stated she doesn’t consider Combs is a modified man.
“I know that who he was to me—the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, the trafficker—is who he is as a human. He has no interest in changing or becoming better. He will always be the same cruel, power-hungry, manipulative man that he is,” she wrote to the decide.
Ventura stated she moved her household away from New York out of concern of Combs.
“If there is one thing I have learned from this experience, it is that victims and survivors will never be safe,” she wrote. “I hope that your decision considers the truths at hand that the jury failed to see.”
Combs’ legal professionals have argued the decide shouldn’t think about any proof associated to the costs he was acquitted of, together with testimony about his alleged coercion of the victims.
Prosecutors stated the decide ought to think about Combs’ historical past of bodily violence and management of Ventura and Jane, saying it’s a part of the transportation crime he was convicted of.
“Although the sex at Freak Offs and Hotel Nights was at heart of this case, this case is not only about sex. Freak Offs and Hotel Nights left both victims scarred and caused them to question their own self-worth and desire to live. A sentence of at least 135 months’ imprisonment is necessary to reflect the defendant’s violence, threats, and other abuse that still impact the victims today,” prosecutors wrote in memo to the decide.
The disgraced music mogul has been jailed since his arrest in September 2024. The decide twice denied him bail after the decision, citing Combs’ historical past of violence.
In writing to the decide, Ventura referenced essentially the most “traumatic and horrifying chapter in my life.”
“He groomed me into performing repeated sex acts with hired male sex workers during multi-day ‘freak offs,’ which occurred nearly weekly. I was forced into lingerie and heels, told exactly how to look, and plied with drugs and alcohol so he could control me like a puppet. These events were degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, illnesses, and days of physical and emotional exhaustion before he demanded it all again,” Ventura wrote.
Her mother and father, Regina and Rodrick Ventura, requested Judge Subramanian to contemplate the 11-year “horrific nightmare” their daughter lived in her relationship with Combs.
“To sentence lightly in this case that involved such vicious abuses of our daughters’ body, safety and dignity is to dismiss her very existence,” they wrote.