Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is interesting the conviction handed all the way down to him earlier this 12 months over prostitution expenses referring to his former girlfriends and male intercourse employees.
The music mogul was given a 50-month sentence and a $500,000 superb for flying individuals across the US and overseas for sexual encounters, together with his then-girlfriend and male intercourse employees, in violation of prostitution legal guidelines.
He was cleared of extra critical expenses of racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking that would have put him in jail for all times.
It lists Combs’s defence council as Alexandra A E Shapiro, and exhibits a $605 (£450) docketing charge was paid to lodge the formal discover.
Extra detailed filings are anticipated to comply with.
On the day of sentencing in early October the rapper’s attorneys had signalled they meant to attraction.
Combs, 55, has been in custody since his arrest final 12 months.
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Diddy jailed for greater than 4 years
His seven-week trial earlier this 12 months included 4 days of testimony from Cassie, now Cassie Ventura Effective, who informed the courtroom she was coerced and generally blackmailed into sexual encounters with male intercourse employees, known as “freak offs”.
Jurors have been additionally proven video clips of Combs dragging and beating her in a Los Angeles resort hallway after a type of periods in 2016.
Forward of the sentencing, Cassie additionally submitted a letter to the decide, calling Combs a “manipulator” and saying she would worry for her security ought to he be instantly launched.
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Diddy and Cassie on the premiere for a movie she starred in, simply days after the 2016 resort incident. Pic: zz/Galaxy/STAR MAX/IPx/ AP
Forward of his sentencing, Combs informed the courtroom he admitted his previous behaviour was “disgusting, shameful and sick”, and apologised personally to Cassie Ventura and “Jane”, one other former girlfriend who testified anonymously through the trial.
He informed the courtroom he’d received “lost in my excess and lost in my ego”, however since his time in jail he has been “humbled and broken to my core,” including “I hate myself right now… I am truly sorry for it all.”
Choose Arun Subramanian, who had rejected bail for the rapper a number of occasions earlier than sentencing, informed him that he would get by his time in jail and would nonetheless “have a life afterwards,” calling it “a chance for renewal and redemption”.
He was going through a most of 20 years in jail for the prostitution-related expenses, so the sentence was in direction of the decrease finish of the size.
Prosecutors had argued he ought to spend at the least 11 years behind bars, whereas Combs’s attorneys had referred to as for him to be freed nearly instantly on account of time already served since his arrest simply over a 12 months in the past.
