Following two months of testimony and arguments in the New York federal case, jurors rejected the most serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, sparing the 55-year-old the prospect of life in prison.
Late Thursday, his lawyers submitted a letter signed by Combs in which he told Judge Arun Subramanian he was “scared to death” to be away from his family and vowed he “will never commit a crime again.”
The once-powerful hip-hop innovator apologized for physically assaulting Casandra Ventura, his former girlfriend for more than a decade, who testified of gruesome beatings as well as devastating emotional and sexual abuse he inflicted on her.
Ventura said in a previous letter she had moved her family out of the New York area for fear of “retribution” if Combs walks free.
Both women said that Combs, with the help of his staff and inner circle, coerced them into performing so-called “freak-offs”: sexual marathons with hired men that Combs directed and sometimes filmed.
‘Broken to my core’
But jurors did find that he violated a federal statute that makes it illegal to transport people across state lines for prostitution.
He blamed his behavior on drugs, excess and “selfishness” and said his more than a year in a notorious Brooklyn jail left him “reborn.”
He cited his rags-to-riches story in the entertainment industry and his childhood trauma of losing his father to murder. Combs described abhorrent prison conditions, inner work on himself that’s led to a “spiritual reset,“ his sobriety, and the positive relationships he’s tried to build with fellow inmates.
The prosecution says he is “unrepentant” and a public threat who should serve at least a decade more. Several of his victims have written letters to the judge to that effect.
And Combs is expected to speak directly to the judge.
“I ask you for mercy today, not only for my sake, but for the sake of my children,“ he wrote. “I can’t change the past, but I can change the future.”
“I have been humbled and broken to my - AFP
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