In this courtroom sketch, Sean Diddy Combs breaks down and cries during the playing of a video about his life during his sentencing hearing in Manhattan federal court, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in New York. (AP)

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sentencing hearing in a sordid case involving his girlfriends and male sex workers opened Friday with prosecutors arguing the hip-hop mogul should be locked up for years while his children tearfully asked the judge for mercy.

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

Defence lawyers say he should be freed immediately, after spending more than a y

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