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Topics: Diddy, Music, Sex Trafficking, Crime, US News, Donald Trump, Politics
Liv Bridge
Topics: Diddy, Music, Sex Trafficking, Crime, US News, Donald Trump, Politics
Sean 'Diddy' Combs has made a bombshell request to the president after his sentencing.
The disgraced music mogul was arrested at a hotel in New York last September on charges of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, racketeering conspiracy and more.
However, in his high-profile court hearing, which saw dozens of famous faces take to the stand to testify, including his former partner Cassie Ventura, Combs was found guilty of a lesser charge.
The 55-year-old was sentenced to 50 months behind bars, more than four years, on October 3 after a jury found him guilty of two counts of transportation for engagement in prostitution, a violation of the Mann Act.
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He was also slapped with a hefty $50,000 fine, the maximum penalty the judge could impose.
Now, Combs has allegedly approached President Donald Trump with a bombshell request for a pardon.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, the POTUS said: "A lot of people have asked me for pardons. I call him Puff Daddy; he has asked me for a pardon."
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His appeal for a presidential pardon comes as his defence urged the New York judge to consider a sentence of no more than 14 months, stating he has already suffered during his 13-month-long stint behind bars.
His attorneys further claimed Diddy's ex-girlfriends were 'not vulnerable or exploited or trafficked or sexually assaulted' during his so-called 'freak-offs.'
The trial heard all about the rapper's days-long and drug-fueled sex parties, where the Bad Boy Records founder would 'orchestrate' sexual activity between male sex workers and his girlfriends and watch the encounters.
While his former partners claimed they were coerced into the acts and even physically attacked in the case of Cassie at the hands of Combs, the jury cleared him of the serious accusations of racketeering and sex trafficking.
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However, they did find him guilty of two charges, one relating to sex workers he paid for while in a relationship with the singer and another charge connected to a former girlfriend who has not been named in the trial.
Combs himself reportedly submitted a letter to the judge, asking for 'mercy' before his sentencing.
He wrote that he realized he had 'lost his way' and got 'lost in the drugs and the excess.'
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"My downfall was rooted in my selfishness. I have been humbled and broken to my core. The old me died in jail and a new version of me was reborn. Prison will change you or kill you-I choose to live."
After he was sentenced, the father-of-seven could be heard apologizing to his mom and children, saying: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Combs' attorneys, Marc Agnifilo and Brian Steel, also said outside the court that they intended to file for an appeal.
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"We think we have strong basis to appeal - the strongest basis is that the jury reached a verdict on coercion, they found it was not coercion and I think that the judge said coercion today at least a dozen times.
"We think that is unconstitutional. We think that a jury verdict should mean more than our jury's verdict seems to mean. So we are planning to appeal."
Earlier this month, Trump didn't rule out granting a pardon to Combs.
He said: "Probably.. Hmm. You know, I was very friendly with him. I get along with him great. Seemed like a nice guy.
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"I didn't know him well. But when I ran for office, he was very hostile."