Sean “Diddy” Combs wants to be sprung from jail on time served when he’s sentenced next month for setting up baby-oil-fueled sex romps with escorts who traveled across state lines.
The disgraced hip-hop mogul, 55, who has been cooling his heels at a Brooklyn lockup since his September 2024 arrest, urged a Manhattan judge to order his release when his fate is revealed on Oct.3, according to a new request filed by his legal team late Monday night.
Combs was spared a potential life sentence in July when jurors found him not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking charges — despite two women testifying that he forced them into living out his degrading sexual fantasies during their tumultuous relationships.
But the fallen rap icon still faces up to 10 years in prison after he was convicted on two counts of breaking the Mann Act, a federal law making it a crime to transport someone across state lines for prostitution.
Judge Arun Subramanian, who oversaw the two-month trial in Manhattan federal court, is now set to decide how long the “I’ll Be Missing U” rapper will spend behind bars.
The salacious case shed light on Combs’ taste for “freak-offs” — grueling, drug-fueled sex marathons in which he watched his girlfriend perform sex acts with male escorts — and revealed the brazen steps he took to hide his physical abuse of his lovers from the public.
Combs’ lawyers admitted that he beat his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, and another former lover who used an alias “Jane” — including a horrific 2016 attack on Ventura inside a Los Angeles hotel that was caught on surveillance video.
But they argued that both women consented to the sexual encounters, and showed jurors the sex tapes Combs made of several of the “freak-offs,” plus explicit texts the women sent him while dating him.
Ventura, who sparked the law enforcement probe into Combs when she went public with her allegations in a bombshell 2023 lawsuit, testified that her then-boss at Bad Boy Records used the threat of releasing the sex tapes to coerce her into hundreds of “freak-offs” with escorts.
“I feared for my career. I feared for my family. It’s just embarrassing. It’s horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone,” she testified.
Another lover, “Jane,” testified that Combs forced her to have sex with an escort hours after kicking, choking and punching her in a vicious assault.
“Is this coercion?” Combs chillingly asked her — before ordering his battered lover to perform oral sex on the male sex worker in the June 18, 2024, nightmare, the woman told jurors.
The jury of eight men and four women nonetheless acquitted Combs of charges of sex trafficking Ventura and “Jane” by force, fraud or coercion.
They also found Combs not guilty of racketeering conspiracy after prosecutors charged that the jet-setting businessman led Bad Boy Records like a criminal enterprise.
Jurors saw evidence that Combs and his former chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, conspired to pay security guards $100,000 to bury footage of Combs assaulting Ventura inside an LA hotel in March 2016. The video later surfaced in May 2024 and was played for jurors at the trial.
The court also heard evidence that Combs ordered his security team to force Ventura to spend days at a time in hotels after his repeated beatings, to hide her visible bruises and keep his violence secret.
But unlike in many high-profile racketeering cases, no member of Combs’ inner circle “flipped” on him by testifying against him in court.
Combs’ lawyers successfully claimed at trial that he was guilty of domestic violence, but not the sex trafficking and racketeering raps that the feds had charged him with.
Combs is due back in court for a hearing Thursday morning, with federal prosecutors set to make their own sentencing recommendation to the judge by next Monday.
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