Disgraced hip-hop icon Sean “Diddy” Combs is so confident he’ll be released from jail on time served he has already booked speaking engagements for next week, prosecutors revealed during his sentencing Friday.
The shocking revelation came as prosecutors began opening arguments in Manhattan federal court, pressing their case that the Bad Boy Records founder should be sent to prison for at least 11 years.
“Even now at sentencing for his conviction for two federal crimes… he doesn’t fully grapple with how his actions got him here,” federal prosecutor Mary Slavik said. “His respect for the law is just lip service.
“He has booked speaking engagements in Miami for next week. That is the height of hubris, your honor.”
The damning condemnation of Combs’ alleged arrogance unfolded as Slavick argued that the music mogul used his power and wealth to abuse and sexually humiliate his victims, including his longtime ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Combs, 55, was convicted on two prostitution counts in July, but acquitted on more-serious sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
The two-month trial exposed the sordid details of Combs sick proclivity for “freak-offs” – baby oil-drenched and drug-fueled marathons in which he forced Ventura and others to have sex with male escorts.
But Slavick said the case wasn’t just about the depraved “freak-offs.”
“This isn’t a case about just sex,” she said. “It’s a case about real victims who suffered real harm at the hands of the defendant… it’s about a man who did horrible things to other people to satisfy his own sexual gratification.”
Victims who testified at the trial, including Ventura, weren’t expected to make appearances during the sentencing, though they submitted lengthy statements detailing the traumatic aftermath of the rapper’s abuse.
One victim – Combs’ ex-assistant who testified under the pseudonym “Mia” – had been slated to speak, but she backed out at the last minute after the mogul’s attorneys attacked her credibility in a court filing that prosecutors deemed “bullying.”
Judge Arun Subramanian agreed the defense letter crossed a line.
“The tone of the defense’s letter was inappropriate,” he said.
Subramanian also said he could consider Combs’ acquitted conduct — meaning charges that the jury did not convict the “All About The Benjamins” rapper on could still factor into his sentence.
Those include the many accounts of Combs’ wretched violence that were presented at trial.
Combs’ attorneys have opposed this idea as they’ve argued for a lenient sentence.
Prosecutors have recommended a sentence of 11 years in prison, while the defense is asking for the Bad Boy Records founder to be released on time served — a light sentence of 14 months behind bars.
Diddy has been in jail since his September 2024 arrest.
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