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Sean "Diddy" Combs was denied acquittal and a new trial on Tuesday, Sept. 30

He is due to be sentenced on transportation to engage in prostitution charges on Friday, Oct. 3

In a letter ahead of his sentencing, his ex Casandra "Cassie" Ventura asked a New York federal judge to consider "the many lives that Sean Combs has upended with his abuse and control"

Sean "Diddy" Combs was denied acquittal and a new trial on Tuesday, Sept. 30, days before his sentencing later this week.

"The government proved its case many times over. That by itself might be enough to dispose of Combs’s challenge," U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian wrote in new court documents obtained by PEOPLE.

The former hip-hop mogul, 55, is scheduled to be sentenced on the two prostitution-related charges o

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