NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs ' sentencing hearing opened Friday with prosecutors pushing for a long prison term while his children tearfully asked the judge for mercy in a sordid criminal case involving the hip-hop mogul's girlfriends and male sex workers.

Prosecutors want an 11-year sentence for Combs, 55, who was convicted in July of flying people across state lines for drug-fueled marathon sexual encounters. Jurors acquitted him of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges that could have carried a life sentence.

In a final word before sentencing, Sean “Diddy” Combs called his past behavior “disgusting, shameful” and “sick,” while apologizing to the people he hurt physically and mentally, as well as his children in the audience. He said his acts of domestic violence ar

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