Music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is set to be decided Friday morning as he will be sentenced for prostitution offenses

Combs, 55, faces a maximum of 20 years behind bars for transportation to engage in prostitution of his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and another unnamed woman

He’d also been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, but the jury rejected the more serious charges

Combs who was arrested in Sept. 2024, was convicted in July and the court refused to grant defense request that he be released on $1 million bond

Prosecutors have asked for a sentence of 11 years and 3 months, while defense requested no more than 14 months with time served

How long music mogul Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs will remain behind bars is being decided today Friday Oct. 3 2025. His sentencing follows his conviction in July on prostitution-related charges. He was let off on more serious charges of racketeering

Music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs appears in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Friday where he is to be sentenced for prostitution offenses. 
Judge Arun Subramanian will sentence him for his conviction on prostitution-related charges.
Adding to his legal woes, on the eve of his sentencing on Friday, Combs was hit with fresh civil suits alleging sexual assault filed by two additional victims – a man and a woman.  
Combs, 55, faces a maximum of 20 years behind bars for transportation to engage in prostitution of his ex-girlfriend Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura and another unnamed woman. 
He had also been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, but the jury rejected the more serious charges.  
The hearing comes after an eight-week trial that concluded in July with the jury delivered a split verdict. Combs, 55, was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges that could have carried a life sentence.
He was convicted of two prostitution-related charges that carry maximum sentences of 10 years each. Prosecutors have asked the judge to sentence Diddy to 11 years and three months, while his defense requested no more than 14 months with time served, meaning he would be freed by the end of the year. 

The long queue of public watchers waiting to get into Manhattan’s Federal District Court on Frida, ahead of sentencing for Diddy Combs

The actual sentence is at the discretion of the judge. He has been dismissive of the defense’s previous attempts to give Diddy an easier ride, suggesting the final sentence will be substantially longer than the one requested by the singer.  
Diddy has been detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn ever since he was arrested in September 2024.
The trial of Combs captured national attention earlier this year as the jury heard weeks of gut-wrenching testimony from Ventura, where she alleged that she was coerced into marathon ‘freak off’ sexual performances during their relationship. 
In her testimony, Ventura – who was heavily pregnant as she took the stand – claimed that Combs often beat and abused her during their 11-year relationship. 

Earlier this year, the trial jury heard weeks of testimony from victims including his ex Cassie Ventura, [seen in photo with Diddy], alleging that she was coerced into marathon ‘freak off’ sexual performances during their relationship

During cross-examination the defense attorneys argued that the sessions were not evidence of sex trafficking and were consensual, and brought up text messages from their relationship where Ventura wrote that she ‘loved’ the freak offs. 
Those texts threw a wrench into the prosecution’s case, ultimately Combs was not been convicted of any offense against Ventura, despite existence of appalling footage from 2016, that emerged shortly before his arrest showed Combs him beating Ventura in a hotel corridor. However, Combs was never charged over that crime.
In countering the evidence of physical assault, the defendant’s lawyers while conceding he was a woman beater, reminded jurors their client was not on trial for beating his then girlfriend.

In her testimony the rapper’s ex, Cassie Ventura, who was heavily pregnant as she took the stand, claimed that Combs often beat and abused her during their 11-year relationship. She has asked Judge Subramanian to weigh her suffering when deciding the sentence for Combs 

While the freak-offs would be viewed as immoral by many, they were ultimately just consensual sex acts between adults, the defense argued. 
The defense team’s strategy ultimately got Diddy off the hook for racketeering, which could have seen him spend the rest of his life behind bars, if convicted.  
Following his conviction on prostitution related charges only, Diddy’s lawyers filed a motion asking the judge to either overturn his criminal conviction or grant him a new trial. That motion was denied. 
As a last resort they launched an appeal to free Combs before the scheduled date for sentencing.
The appeal to the sentencing judge included nearly 70 letters of support from his inner circle, including his mother Janice, sister Keisha, four of his seven children, record producer Dallas Austin, and Dana Tran, the mother of his youngest daughter.

The trial focused on the defendant’s infamous ‘Diddy parties’ or ‘Freak offs’ which catered to the hedonistic pleasures of the A-list celebrities in attendance 

The filing for leniency claims Combs has finally sobered up in prison after 25 years of drugs and alcohol abuse. His attorneys argued that his children rely on him, as well as his 84-year-old mother Janice who in her letter conceded he ‘has made some terrible mistakes,’ but stated that she wants to spend ‘the last few years of my life’ with her son.
The filing also claimed Combs maintained an ‘incident free record’ while staying at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
As Combs through his attorneys made a plea for leniency in a letter to a federal judge on Thursday ahead of his sentencing on prostitution-related charges, his ex Casandra Ventura also wrote a letter asking the judge to consider “the many lives that Sean Combs has upended with his abuse and control” in deciding his sentence.
Cassie Ventura, the star witness at his federal trial, along with six other people affected by the crimes wrote letters ahead of sentencing, asking the judge to consider “the many lives that Sean Combs has upended with his abuse and control” in deciding the sentence.

Diddy Combs has been detained the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn ever since he was arrested in September 2024. It appears he may yet spend another decade incarcerated. 

During Combs’ trial earlier this year, jurors were forced to watch three videos purported to show Cassie Ventura and male prostitutes engaged in the ‘freak offs.’
The trial also saw testimony from an unnamed woman referred to as ‘Jane’, who testified under a pseudonym to protect her identity as she gave emotional testimony about how she felt forced to have sex with strangers to please Combs.

A still from footage recorded in a hotel lobby of the Diddy Combs assaulting Cassie Ventura, recorded in 2016. Combs was never charged for that assault though the prosecution mentioned it during his trial

Cassie testified over sickening footage that emerged before Diddy’s arrest showing him savagely beating her in a hotel lobby. 
The footage sparked outrage and led Diddy’s own lawyers to describe him as a ‘domestic abuser’, but they argued that it should not have played a role in his trial as he was never charged with assaulting Ventura.   
Prosecutors said they charged the rapper with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy because he used threats, drugs and violence to force women into unwelcome sexual experiences and used his employees and associates to help him get what he wanted.

When Homeland Security raided Combs’ Miami mansion in March 2024, an armored vehicle rammed through the gates

FBI Special Agent Andre Lamon also gave testimony over what agents found in Diddy’s Los Angeles mansion in a raid in March 2024.
He said agents found over 1,000 bottles of lubricant in the home, including around 900 bottles of Astroglide and 200 bottles of baby oil. 
During the trial prosecutors also showed images from inside Diddy’s mansions in Los Angeles and Miami from the 2024 raids, showing black hair dye, caches of guns, drugs and ‘freak off’ paraphernalia. 

Images of weapons cache found during raids on Comb’s homes in LA and Miami, along with drugs and ‘freak off’ paraphernalia, were introduced during his sex trafficking trial

‘Freak off’ paraphernalia discovered when agents from Homeland Security raided Combs’ Miami mansion in March 2024

In a last-ditch plea for leniency, Combs also wrote a letter to Judge Subramanian on Thursday based on the same argument thathe’s a changed man who deserves a “second chance.” 
“I can’t change the past, but I can change the future,” he wrote. “I know that God put me here to transform me. Since incarceration, I have gone through a spiritual reset.
“If you allow me to go home to my family, I promise I will not let you down and I will make you proud.”