Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to over four years in prison for prison on pimping on Friday, the judge reprimanding the hip-hop tycoon for undergoing two former lovers, according to Reuters.
Sean “Diddy” Combs. Photo: Getty Images
At the age of 55, Sean “Diddy” Combs remained impassive to the Manhattan federal court when the Federal Subramanian judge announced the 50 -month sentence at the end of a day hearing.
However, the hip-hop star could be released in less than three years, after a reduction of the punishment for the time spent in arrest.
The Aristian risks a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison after his July sentence for two charges regarding the movement of male escorts paid across the state borders to participate in drugs powered by the fuels, while he recorded videos and masturbated.
The jury paid by the more serious accusations of racket and sexual trafficking, which could have brought him a lifetime punishment.
These were based on the accusation of prosecutors who tried to prove in court that the star used violence and threats to constrain two of his friends – the singer of Rhythm and Blues Casandra Ventura and a woman known under the pseudonym Jane – to participate in shows “Freak Offs”.
“It was a subjugation”
Although he was accused of these accusations, the judge said that a significant punishment was justified, given the evil that Comples caused to Ventura and Jane.
“The court rejects the defense attempt to characterize what happened here as only intimate, consensual experiences, or just a story with sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. It was a subjugation that caused both Mrs. Ventura and Jane to think to end the days“Said Subramanian.
Combs pleaded innocently, Marc Agnifilo, his lawyer, declaring reporters to appeal against the sentence, arguing that Subramanian “He questioned the verdict of the jury.”
“I will never raise your hand over another person”
Before the judge pronounced the sentence, Combs asked for the court apologize to Ventura and Jane and said he learned the lesson.
“I know I will never raise my hand over another person.” Said Combs, the founder of Bad Boy Records, to whom the merits are attributed to raise the status of hip-hop in American culture.
Combs is one of the most prominent male figures in the entertainment industry that has reached court for charges of sexual crimes.
“Although nothing can repair the trauma caused by the combination, the sentence pronounced today recognizes the seriousness of the crimes he has committed”, said Douglas Wigdor, Ventura’s lawyer, in a statement.
Combs’s lawyers acknowledged that he physically abused his girlfriends, but claimed that they willingly participated in sexual acts.
According to them, the appropriate punishment would have been 14 months, while the prosecutors requested a sentence of at least 11 years and 3 months.
We recall that among the most shocking evidence presented in this process is a 2016 video recording, broadcast for the first time by CNN, in which Combs is surprised by beating his former girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura (38 years), on a hotel corridor in Los Angeles.
Photo video capture
The images were surprised by the hotel surveillance cameras, and the security guard Israel Florez, the first witness of the accusation, said he filmed them with his phone on the security room, to show his wife.
He said he found Cassie scared, crouched in a corner, with a hood drawn on his head.
Cassie Ventura, during the profimia photo testimony
The video shows clear images with Cassie walking on the hotel lobby, and at one point, he fought it on the floor, in the full crisis. While she was trying to enter an elevator, he grabbed her by the neck and slammed her to the ground. Then he hit her with her foot while lying still. Diddy sat above her, hit her again, and then dragged her back to the room.
Ventura: “He was hitting me in my head, he was leaving me, he was dragging me, if I was down”
On May 13, 2025, Ventura said in court that Combs, 55 years old, forced her to participate in parties, known as “Freak offs“, Where he had sex with male escorts while he was looking.
They have become “the job ” They and she continued to participate, because she was afraid that Combs would make public the video recordings she had filmed during the parties, the court said.
Ventura described the way he was hit by Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“He was hitting me in my head, he was falling, dragging me, I was stepping on me, if I was down”, said the singer.
She said she was assaulted even for the smallest things: «I was doing the wrong grit and the next thing I knew was that I was getting a slap in front»“, she told.
“I was living with the fear of not knowing who he would be when we woke up in the morning ”, Ventura confessed.
