Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday for prostitution-related crimes, at the end of a dramatic court hearing during which the music mogul apologized and begged for mercy.

Prosecutors had sought 11 years behind bars for the 55-year-old Combs but District Judge Arun Subramanian handed down a 50-month sentence and a $500,000 fine.

Combs's lawyers had urged the judge to sentence the hip-hop star to 14 months, which would effectively have been time served since he has been incarcerated in Brooklyn for more than a year.

Combs was acquitted by a jury in July of the most serious charges against him -- sex trafficking and racketeering -- but convicted of two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution.

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