1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson, 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Sean Diddy. Combs receives more than four years in federal 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: prison for transporting people across state lines for sex. Judge A. 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: Rune Subramanian, handing down the sentence, telling Combs he weighed 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: his commitment to sobriety, his work in the community, and 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: his family life, but said, quote, the court has to 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: consider all of your history here. A history of good 8 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: works can't wash away the record in this case, which 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: shows that you abuse the power and control over the 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: lives of women whom you profess to love. As for 11 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: the idea that he's being punished for paying for sex, quote, 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: you were no john, He said he must hand down 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: a substantial sentence quote to send a message to abusers 14 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: and victims alike that exploitation and violence against women is 15 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: met with real accountability. Combs was handed a fifty month 16 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: sentence under the Man Act, the judge finding Combs half 17 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: a million dollars, the maximum allowed by law. The judge 18 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: declined to reduce or extend the term beyond federal guidelines, 19 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: rejecting the defense's request for fourteen months, and the prosecutions 20 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: push for more than eleven years. The maximum was twenty 21 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: years total on both counts. Before sentencing, Combs addressed the 22 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: court quote, I want to thank you for giving me 23 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: the chance to finally speak up for myself. Quote. My 24 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: actions were disgusting, shameful, and sick. I was sick, sick 25 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: from the drugs. I was out of control. I needed 26 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: help and I didn't get the help. And I cannot 27 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: make no excuse because my mother taught me quote. I 28 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: ask your honor for mercy. I beg your honor for mercy. 29 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: I asked your honor for the chance to be a 30 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: father again, a son again, and be a leader in 31 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: my community again, and get the help I desperately need. 32 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: The sentence marking the end of one of the most 33 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: high profile criminal cases in the history of the music industry, 34 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: exposing years of violence, manipulation, and exploitation by a man 35 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: who once ruled pop culture. The court cited the seriousness 36 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: of his crimes and the lasting pain of his victims, 37 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: while also noting his late admission of guilt and his 38 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: claims of personal change. The conviction came on two counts 39 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: of transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs was acquitted of 40 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have resulted in 41 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: a life sentence. Prosecutors describe years of abuse and coercion, 42 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: saying Comb's used power, wealth, and fear to humiliate and 43 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: control women. They said his behavior caused emotional scars that 44 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: would last for life, calling his treatment of victims quote violent, dehumanizing, 45 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: and deliberate. Evidence presented in court included testimony from former 46 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: employees and male escorts who participated in what Combs called 47 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: free costs, which prosecutors said were organized acts of sexual domination. 48 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: The defense played an eleven minute video, which Diddy's team 49 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: also released to the public. The video showed Combs as 50 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: a devoted father and a self made entrepreneur giving back 51 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: to his community. It showed Combs giving several lectures as 52 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 1: school aid students looked on A word's hard. Just that 53 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: you guys are working this country, in this world we 54 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: live in. May have plan for y'all. I didn't listen 55 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: to that. I don't want y'all to listen to it. 56 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,239 Speaker 1: I just feel like it's a poet, you know, yell, 57 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: Adults of power. Now we look out for y'all, will 58 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: utilize our power let make sure y'all all right in 59 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: the future. Put everything you can to your work. You know, 60 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: don't don't think the cool thing is not to do 61 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: your work. I don't think the cool thing is to 62 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: hang on the corner with your friends, Combs cried as 63 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: the video rolled just before the lunch break. The defense 64 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: argued that Combs was not a trafficker and had not 65 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: profited from the crimes. They said his judgment was clouded 66 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: by addiction and unchecked ego, not greed. His lawyers urged 67 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: the judge to consider his rehabilitation, describing him as a 68 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: quote deeply flawed man who had begun to take responsibility. 69 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: All six of his adult children gathered around the lectern, 70 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: pleading for leniency and describing their father's efforts to become 71 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: a better man. One of the sons he shares with, 72 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: kim Porter Quincy Brown, told the court quote, week after week, 73 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: we've seen him evolve something we haven't seen in fifteen years. 74 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: He's completely trying transformed. Justin Combs described his father as 75 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: quote my superhero. In a letter to the court, Combs 76 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: wrote that the quote old me died in jail and 77 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: a new version of me was reborn. He said he 78 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: had been sober for the first time in twenty five years, 79 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: and took full responsibility for the violence inflicted on Cassie 80 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: Ventura and the victim, known only as Jane. He said 81 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: his time and custody had forced him to face his 82 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: failures and rebuild himself spiritually. Combs has been held at 83 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: the Metropolitan Detention Center in Booklyn since his arrest in 84 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. He will remain there until his transfer 85 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: to a federal facility, where he will begin his sentence 86 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: with credit for time served about twelve months. His legal 87 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,280 Speaker 1: team has vowed to appeal for more on the case 88 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 1: of Sean Ditty. Combs joined Crime Stories with Nancy Grace 89 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: now on Fox one. You can also find us on 90 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: Sirius XM Triumph Channel one to eleven at eight pm Eastern, 91 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: or find us on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. 92 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: With his crime alaer, I'm Drew Nelson.