Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday for his conviction on prostitution-related charges.
Prosecutors had sought 11 years behind bars for Combs but Judge Arun Subramanian handed down a 50-month sentence after an emotional daylong court hearing.
Combs’s lawyers urged the judge to give the 55-year-old hip-hop star a 14-month sentence, which they argued effectively covered the time he had already spent incarcerated in Brooklyn for over a year.
Addressing the court before the judge handed down the sentence, Combs said he was “truly sorry” for his actions and asked the judge for “another chance.”
“I ask your honour for mercy,” he said. “I beg your honour for mercy.”
A jury acquitted Combs in July of the most serious charges against him, sex trafficking and racketeering, but convicted him of two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution.