What to Know
- Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 50 months behind bars, which equates to four years and two months. He also was given a $500,000 fine.
- The hip-hop mogul was convicted in July of flying people around the country for sexual encounters, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, in violation of the federal Mann Act.
- A jury acquitted Combs, 55, of more serious racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges that could have put him away for life.
- Prosecutors wanted him to spend more than 11 years in prison for his conviction on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs’ lawyers wanted him freed immediately, saying the long sentence sought by prosecutors is “wildly out of proportion” to the crime.
- U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, decided the sentence, had signaled that Combs was unlikely to be freed soon. He twice rejected bail for the rapper, who has been jailed at a federal detention center in Brooklyn since his arrest a year ago.
For more than two decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs was one of hip-hop’s most nimble entrepreneurs. Then he was charged with forcing, threatening and manipulating two ex-girlfriends into drug-fueled sex marathons.
Acquitted of the most serious charges, racketeering and sex trafficking, Diddy was found guilty of transporting people across state lines for prostitution. He was sentenced to 50 months behind bars, which equates to four years and two months, and will have to pay a $500,000 fine.
Prosecutors had sought 11 years in prison. His lawyers were seeking time served.
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