• Sean "Diddy" Combs will soon be sentenced following his conviction on prostitution-related charges. • The mogul's lawyers have filed court papers in support of a time-served sentence. • At trial, Combs was cleared of the most serious counts but convicted of Mann Act charges.
Sean "Diddy" Combs dodged a possible sentence of life in prison at his recent Manhattan federal trial — and now the music mogul is making his case for why he deserves to spend not a minute more behind bars.
Attorneys for Combs late Monday filed a lengthy memo seeking a punishment of time served for the 55-year-old Bad Boy Records founder, ahead of his scheduled October 3 sentencing.
"In the past two years, Mr. Combs's career and reputation have been destroyed," his lawyers wrote in a 182-page presentencing sub