Stanned for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: only the grace he implored to President Donald Trump will be able to save the Magnate of the Hip-Hop sentenced today in Manhattan to over four years in prison and 500 thousand dollars of fine for crimes related to prostitution today. Rejecting the mea culpa of the defendant, the appeals of his family and the thesis of the defenders according to which Combs, “damaged” by the killing of the father to three years of age and the friend Rapper Biggie Smalls, was certainly a little good and a drug addict but not a criminal, judge Arun Subramanian made the horror of the testimonies emerged as aggravating the trial of the trial. Off “, red light parties in which the impresario forced women to him sentimentally linked to” elaborate sexual performances “with male escorts, fed by drugs and often filmed.
“The old version of me died in prison, now I was reborn,” Combs wrote to the judge on the eve of the sentence, and then, today in the classroom, he had been repentant for “disgusting, shameful and sick behavior”.
For him, however, it could have been very worse. Acquitted in July with the most serious accusations of sexual traffic and criminal association, two crimes that could have involved life imprisonment, Combs had been judged guilty of the two charges related to prostitution each of which provided for a maximum sentence of 10 years. Today, in the last indictment, the prosecutor Christy Slavik shocked the classroom quoting episodes that emerged from the testimonies and then revealing that the defendant had already made commitments in Miami next week, evidently waiting to be released: “The maximum arrogance”.
The defense had asked for no more than 14 months (“insufficient for the severity of the offense”), the accusation at least eleven years (“unreasonable” according to the judge). Combs witnessed the hearing with evident emotion, bursting to cry when the six adult children have intercepted for him, “a changed man”, putting his head in his hands, his mouth twisted as in the Urlò of Munch. Maurene Comey classroom, daughter of the former head of the FBI James Comey, fired from Trump in July shortly after closing, on behalf of the District Attney office, the case against Diddy.
Sean Combs is 55 years old. In the 90s, working with stars like Notorious Big and Mary J. Blige, it was the engine for the marketing of hip-hop by accumulating an esteemed fortune to a billion dollars whose judge took into account in establishing the pecuniary part of the sentence. The rap impresario had been arrested a year ago in Manhattan on the basis of the accusations of various women, the first of whom, released in the open with a “bargained” complaint within 24 hours, had been the singer R&B Cassie (Casandra Ventura), whom he had contracted with the Bad Boy label and who had been his partner for years. Cassie, pregnant in the ninth month of her husband Alex Fine, had been the test witness of the trial.