Convicted rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has written a letter to the choose overseeing his legal trial, asking for leniency throughout his sentencing on Friday and blaming his previous behaviour on drug habit.
Within the four-page letter, he apologises “for the entire damage and ache that I’ve brought about” and says that he has been reformed after spending 13 months in a Brooklyn jail.
The letter on Thursday comes hours forward of his sentencing listening to at 10:00 ET (15:00GMT) on Friday.
In July, he was discovered responsible of two prostitution expenses and now faces as much as 20 years in jail. Prosecutors are looking for a sentence of no less than 11 years, however Combs’ legal professionals are asking that he be launched later this month.
In his letter to Choose Arun Subramanian, Combs apologises for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, writing: “I actually misplaced my thoughts”.
“I am sorry for that and all the time can be,” he continues. “My home violence will all the time be heavy burden that should without end carry.”
He additionally apologies to an nameless girl who testified throughout the trial below the title “Jane” and says he grew to become “misplaced within the medicine and the surplus”.
“I misplaced my approach,” he wrote. “My downfall was rooted in my selfishness. I’ve been humbled and damaged to my core.”
Combs’ accusers have additionally written to the choose, describing how he wielded his energy and affect to destroy their lives, and their fears that he would search revenge if freed.
“I’m so scared that if he walks free, his first actions can be swift retribution in the direction of me and others who spoke up,” wrote Ms Ventura.
She added that she believes he deserves an extended sentence, writing: “He has no real interest in altering or changing into higher. He’ll all the time be the identical merciless, power-hungry, manipulative man that he’s.”
In his letter, Combs describes instructing a category to fellow inmates on “what I did to develop into a profitable enterprise man”, describing himself as a modified one that is now sober for the primary time in 25 years.
“The previous me died in jail and new model of me was reborn,” he writes.
Combs goes on to ask the choose for mercy, “not just for my sake, however for the sake of my kids”. He requested the choose to think about his seven youngsters, and his 84-year-old mom who lately had mind surgical procedure.
He notes that the choose is likely to be tempted to make an instance out of him and as a substitute asks that he be made an instance of “what an individual can do if afforded a second probability”.
Combs can be anticipated to talk in courtroom on Friday earlier than the choose points his sentence. 4 of his legal professionals are additionally slated to talk, and his defence staff additionally plans to indicate a 15-minute video. It is unclear what the video might embody.
In July, a jury acquitted him of probably the most extreme expenses: racketeering and intercourse trafficking – which may have resulted in him spending the remainder of his life behind bars. He was discovered responsible of two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
Prosecutors say he’s “unrepentant” and argued the rapper ought to spend a minimal of 11 years in jail.
“The defendant tries to recast a long time of abuse as merely the operate of mutually poisonous relationships,” prosecutors wrote in a 29 September submitting. “However there may be nothing mutual a few relationship the place one individual holds all the facility and the opposite finally ends up bloodied and bruised.”
