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Oct 03 from https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology

Sean Combs Sentenced to More Than 4 Years in Prison After Apologizing for ‘Sick’ Conduct

Pinned Sean Combs, the fallen hip-hop mogul, was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison for prostitution-related offenses, in a case that drew global attention for its lurid accounts of violence and fetishistic sex marathons. Judge Arun Subramanian, who was overseeing the case, said in delivering the sentence of 50 months that a substantial sentence was required “to send a...

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Oct 03 from https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology

Stunned Combs holds head in hands as judge unmoved by pleas for mercy

Sean “Diddy” Combs held his head in his hands and appeared to be stunned when a judge handed down a 50-month sentence in a New York courtroom on Friday for prostitution-related offenses. It was a sentence far less than the life term he potentially faced at the start of his sex-trafficking conspiracy trial back in May, but Combs appeared shocked by the outcome. The judgment came just minutes...

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Oct 03 from https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison on prostitution-related charges

A New York federal judge has sentenced Sean “Diddy” Combs to four years and two months in prison following his conviction this summer on federal prostitution-related charges. The sentence, handed down on Friday, came after a federal jury in July acquitted the 55-year-old music mogul of the most serious charges against him – racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking – but found him guilty of...

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Oct 03 from https://fortune.com/section/tech/

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs gets 4 years in prison and is fined half a million dollars for case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’

Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced Friday to four years and two months in prison for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters, capping a sordid federal case that featured harrowing testimony and ended in a forceful reckoning for one of the most popular figures in hip-hop. Combs, 55, was also fined half a million dollars. Since Combs has served a year in jail already, this...

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Oct 02 from https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Asks Judge for Mercy: ‘I Lost My Way’

Sean Combs made a plea for leniency in a letter to a federal judge on Thursday ahead of his sentencing on prostitution-related charges, writing that he had been “humbled” by the criminal case against him and would “never commit a crime again.” “This has been the hardest two years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself,” Mr. Combs wrote in the...

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