September 23, 2025 • 21 mins
Loren’s back with some trial analysis as we near the sentencing of Sean P. Diddy Combs. There’s a lot to consider here, but it’s looking like more than time spent here…
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Twist.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
came in. Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura L. Rosa
and this is the Latest with Lauren L. Rosa.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. Now
it's been a while, I think since we've discussed anything
Diddy related, anything trial related. But you guys know, you
know your girl love to take y'all a court, lot
to take y'all a court.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We're on a beat here at.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The Latest with Laura Rosa because we have been following
this case in in court, with this case since it begins.
Now we are literally days away from the sentencing of
Sean Diddy Combs. Diddy will be sentenced on October third.
Today is the twenty third of September. So next week
we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine,
(00:58):
so we have less than it's about nine. So we
at this point, by the time you see this, we
will be ten less than ten days away from the
sentencing of one of the most successful, richest biggest names
in hip hop, in celebrity in general. At this point,
we all know Sewan Ditty Combs in his career has transcended,
(01:19):
transcended just hip hop the sentence and will be going
down to October third. I will be there in court
that day, so I'll be bringing you guys the update,
both here on the podcast the Latest Lona Rosa, but
also on The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think you know.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Today there were new developments because last night, yesterday, Diddy's
lawyers filed a packet, and the packet it's like over
one hundred and sixty pages long. I have not been
able to actually read all of the pages. We did
talk about this a bit on The Breakfast Club this morning,
but in what I was able to read, just in
preparing for that segment this morning, because they also sent
(01:55):
it out pretty late. I got a text around one
am shooting ahead up that the packet was filed and
that you know, certain you know things were now available
for media and like, oh, just all the things from
a source close to the case, and I woke up
to that. So I've not been able to read through
all of the packet, but I am going to read
through all of the packet just because I want to
(02:17):
make sure I fully understand how they're coming about the sentence.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
They is Diddy's legal team. Just from the.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Index of the packet alone, I can tell you that,
you know, from that and also from sitting in court,
they're angling on what they've been talking about and where
they've been from the beginning, just you know, talking a
bit about, you know, the fact that drugs played a role,
the fact that Diddy's upbringing and things that he experienced
and his upbringing, his father being taken away from him,
(02:46):
being killed, a single parent household, and you know, all
those things, drugs in his you know, adult life, the
fact that the Jane Doees were willing participants of things.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The fact that other or John's or whatever you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Call it in a prostitutionous situation are treated a certain
way and sentenced a certain way. And you know, Diddy's
team feels like, because he is who he is, he's
being giving a harsher punishment and things of that nature.
That's what it seems like they're leaning into. Without reading it,
I'll read you guys a bit of the table of contents.
So this basically just lads out and it's one hundred
(03:24):
and eighty two pages to be exact. I have it
here pulled up, so the table of contents, it begins
with an introduction and it goes into the argument. The
argument is where they're gonna lay out like, Okay, here
a lot of the things I just said, here's exactly
what we're saying, like, here's everything we're seeing to you.
Here's everything we're recounting and reciting so as you make
(03:46):
this one last final decision, these are all the things
we want top of mind for you to remember. So
they talk about mister Combs's history and characteristics. They go
into again his upbringing, the effect of the death of
his father, the dedication to his He leans a lot
on family, he has throughout this whole case. But he's
leaned a lot on family and a lot of the
(04:07):
follow up letters, uh, you know, his last request, couple
of requests for Belle after he was sentenced to on
the two charges of the Man Act, and now here
in this sentencing packet, and his daughters, his twin daughters,
his son Quincy, his son Justin, and his son Christian
all submitted character letters as well, just talking about like
(04:27):
how good of a daddy is, why they need him,
how important it is for him to be home. You know,
how the the death of Christian homes and you know,
the twin daughters, the Comes twins, their mother kim Porter,
how her death has impacted them. And then you know,
you take their dad, Diddy, and you put them in jail,
(04:48):
and you know, the girls say their their world has
been shattered, and you know, and it's been devastating for them.
As you can imagine, it's been devastating for them. But
they all talk about that and how good of a
father he is, how he's always.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There showing up for them.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
His mom's letters are also listed in this table of contents.
His mom talks about her age and how her health
is deteriorating, which there were stories in the beginning of
all of this when Diddy was first being arrested for
the indictment and going through other things of her suffering
a slight heart attack.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And going through some health issues. But Diddy's mom.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Was in court every single day. Diddy's mom was there
like she was an attorney. There got to a point
where his daughters were not there. And I think, to
be honest with you, a lot of this stuff that
was being discussed, and that was, you know, being talked
about on the stand and just presented by the attorneys
on both sides.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Was very graphic. So it was kind of like a
couple of times that I.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Was in court and I was in the main courtroom
and his daughters were there, it was kind of like
almost like uneasy.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
For me to have to hear that and watch his
daughters have to hear.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So I don't know how unsettling it was for his daughters,
but I can only imagine because that's their dad. But yeah,
so they weren't in court all the time, but they
were there. His sons were there daying there every day.
His mom was there every single day. I think I
only remember one time that she did not show up.
And not only was she showing up, but you know,
(06:16):
miss Janis Combs, who was Diddy's mother, would also you know,
she wouldn't stop and talk.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
To the media outside all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But you know, we have video of her from outside
of the court on the verdict day, just the crowd
cheering and she's blown kisses and waving. So she was
very well aware that there were some people still there
supporting Diddy and she, you know, she appreciated the love
and she showed that as well. But they also, you know,
have letters from friends. Young Miami Karsha submitted a letter.
(06:47):
She talks about going to the Met gallon, just did
he changing her life and her perspective because you know,
he always showed her how he was able to, you know,
break down doors and barriers for black people through his
black excellence. While breakdown a door is not a good
thing to say about Diddy in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Y'all know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Basically, you know, she talks about her show and going
to the Met gallon, all these opportunities and how that
was life changing for her when he symbolizes or symbolized
because that's the thing too, It's like when Diddy comes home,
what is the legacy? Now that's a major question, like
what is the legacy? But she talks about that, like
what he symbolized at one point for black people and
(07:27):
you know, having a seat at the table.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
She signs the.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Letter judge, that is a good man. Of course, that's
a good man in Savannah is what popped up. But
she signs the letter judge, that is a good man,
his friend, and you know our entertainment. Stevie J also
wrote a letter to the judge and in this letter,
and y'all know in the beginning of all that Stevie
J was like even before Diddy was locked up, STEVEEJ
(07:51):
was right there with him the whole time. I did
not see STEVIEJ at all in court, uh not while
I was there. I did not see him show up
to court where I was there on any of these
I was there. I didn't see him in the courtroom
when I was in the actual main courtroom where you
could see people. But I know, prior to Diddy being
locked up, STEVEEJ was right there with him. There was
videos of STEVEJ and Diddy riding bikes in Miami after
(08:15):
the indictment came down right there with him.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
STEVJ was on the TMZ dot speaking on Diddy's behalf.
He he's just been right there, like literally right there.
But he explains in the letter STEVEJ does and the
letter that STEVJ wrote, he says Diddy showed up for
him in a very crucial time in his life. He says,
you know, his dad was his best friend and Stevie
(08:39):
J says his dad passed away about two years ago
and without even asking him, did he played for basically
majority of the funeral costs because that's just the good
hearted person that he was. That's how STEVJ paints him.
STEVIEJ also talks about them being friends for all of
these decades and years, and you know, he describes himself
(08:59):
by talking about a lot of the work that STEVJ
himself has done with Biggie and you know, Michael Jackson
and all these people, because Diddy and him were friends.
They met in the studio and he says, you know,
did he change his life? So he speaks a lot
to that. He also talks about, you know, them going
through a battle of dealing with drugs and abuse and
(09:20):
all these different things. But STEVEJ himself being in you know,
therapy and doing different things to help his mental health
and the addictions that they experience in that Diddy, you
know and doing the same can also be a changed man.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
He just needs a chance to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So they you know, they poured it on heavy in
the letters, and that's what you do in these letters,
you know, their character statements. People want these statements attorneys
want these statements because they want to judge to see
another side of the person that they've been sitting with
in court and hearing all of these things about for
all of this time. The way that the people are
(09:55):
dragging Kreesia for submitting a letter is insane, though, like
people are coming for Karesha.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Now here's the thing. Whenever we've heard Karsha talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You know, everything with Diddy, everything with Puff, what she saw,
what she did not see. I think, you know, for
the longest that was a question of did she experience
any of the abuse or just anything herself. She's always
said no. Now I think not even think at the
time when everything happened, it was very obvious that she
distanced herself from him, at least publicly that we knew of.
(10:28):
I mean, and she's a music artist with a whole,
big career. She has to at that point. But I
think the upset comes in for people because it's like, Okay,
you didn't see it, you weren't around for her, you
may not have experienced it, but as a public figure,
as a celebrity, as a female rapper and a woman
with platform to stand next to him, Now that you
(10:50):
have is something that we just we're not gonna condone that.
So she has been trending all day. I believe she's
currently trending on Twitter right now as we speak. When
I before us started this show, I always just checked
to see with Sherindan, I do that about like five
times a day. But before I started this show, she
was trending across Twitter.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yes, she's still trending.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
She is trending number twenty eight across the United States
right now because of this letter that she wrote in
support of Diddy, where she told the judge that is
a good man. Okay, Savannah, that is a good man. Now, listen, y'all,
let me know what y'all think, because what Karesha is
referencing in this letter is all of the work that
she's saying Diddy has done to become a better person.
Everybody in these letters, Diddy's legals team, that is, you know,
(11:32):
they want Diddy to get some time served, be able
to come home, go into rehabilitation, be supervised. They're saying
the time that he has been behind bars was enough
rehabilitation for him.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
What y'all think?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Do you guys think that it is only fair for Diddy? Too,
because of what he was actually convicted of, which where
the prostitution acts right, the man acts to count of it.
Do y'all think it's fair for Diddy to come home?
So Diddy's legal team is saying that it's only fair.
It says, as discussed at length above. So this is
(12:09):
on page this is what page two, as discussed at
length above, the proposed sentence is the only just and
fair sentence for mister Colmes for all of the reasons
set forth here. So they talk about the guidelines. They say,
you know, this is what the sentence guidelines say, and
it's what we should believe.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And what they say is is that.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
If he is given the fourteen month sentence, there should
be a supervised release because they're going to want time
serve and he's already done about fourteen months. They talked
it at a thirteen months so far, so there should
be a supervised release. According to the Diddy's team, drug
treatment therapy and group therapy in the sentence, and that
(12:53):
would make it sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to
accomplish the traditional goal of sentencing. So basically they're saying
to the judge, if you want him to continue to
serve out what the consequence should be and not overpunish him.
Here's exactly what needs to happen, y'all. Let me know,
do y'all think that it's fair? But also too What
I'm looking at if i'm the judge, is has he
(13:15):
actually learned his lesson in all of this? Because if
I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I mean, just
drop your predictions below. My prediction is that the judge
is not going to go for a time served in
the supervisor release. I think the judge I don't see
Diddy because the acts that he's charged of are charged of.
The acts he's convicted of carry up to twenty years
(13:36):
ten years per act, right, But the prosecutors are saying, oh,
let's look at about four to five years. His team
is like a year is what we should be looking
at with all of these stipulations. Once he's released, and
here's the time he's already done. He's already done a
little fourteen months, a little over a year, year and
two months, he's already done thirteen. I don't think that
(13:59):
the judge is going to go with this because I
think a judge is going to continue like from the.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yo, I thought, and I said it. I thought that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Diddy was going to be given a bell that last
go around when he was found not guilty of the
serious of the more serious charges the Rico Act, and
it was just the Man Act charges. I'm like, Okay,
at least they'll give him a bell. He'll be able
to go home until the sentencing and then because I
didn't believe then that his sentencing or what he would
(14:29):
be sentenced would be low. I've always thought that it
would be somewhere around like six I thought it would
be around like six to eight.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So even the.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Prosecutor saying four to five years, I think it's like,
I really think that a judge is going to end
and land somewhere around like three years.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I don't see.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I really don't see what the prosecutors are requesting. I
don't see fourteen months and all this, you know, welcome
home supervising because that day that that verdict happened and
the judge had to say, no, you're not going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Bring that on back over here. You're not going nowhere.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
One of the biggest things he kept pointing to was
all of Diddy, Like all of Diddy's actions after the indictment.
Because here's the thing, and a lot of these letters, right,
like if we go back up to page one where
we're talking about this introduction, right or not the introduction,
we're talking about this table of contents. Literally, you know
(15:39):
they talk about mister Combs being dedicated to his family.
He was dedicated to his family before and after the RICO.
Mister his career, his work history, you know, his mom
and her health and all these people he's helped, and
you know, all the things, all the things that he
has on the line. The biggest point here is that
(16:00):
after that indictment, there were still things that happened. Police,
the prosecutors say when they went to arrest Diddy, they
found the drugs in his room, they found the setup
for another alleged freak golf. There had been conversation about
whether he had reached out to witnesses or not. You know,
(16:22):
there's text messages and different things that were submitted, conversations
that we had about you know, him knowing he wasn't
supposed to be talking on certain phones and talking about
certain things, but doing certain things. Now, with all of
this being said, I think the biggest thing here is
and in the of course mean, of course there's that
Cassie video, which is way before the indictment, but the
(16:42):
way that that was handled in the beginning has also
and I think, you know, people were like, oh my god,
it's unfair to keep bringing up the video. But these
character letters and in the fact that they have about
let me tell y'all, I think they have almost twenty
character references.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I mean, it's is Diddy. He's a celebrity. So the you're.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Gonna have that they have about sixty. No, they have
over seventy letters because Exhibit seventy one is additional letters
of support, so they have they have almost somewhere near
or over a little over one hundred letters of character
reference support. The reason why Diddy's attorneys are leaning so
much into trying to clear up his character is because
(17:26):
what you saw on that video, what we saw in
photos as evidence in the court from the hotel he
was waiting in to turn himself, in the conversations we've
heard and you know, text message and email and voice
notes of just things that showed did he truly.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Understanding his power?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But more so, the prosecutors are kind of using what
the defense is saying and working it in their favor
very well here because Diddy's team leans a lot into
the drug stuff. He wasn't thinking clearly because of his addiction,
because of his mental health, because of things he's been through.
(18:09):
The prosecutors are like, well, yeah, okay, but he needs
to be rehabilitated, and that doesn't happen in the time
that you guys are saying, and that's going to be
the judge's decision.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But I do.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Think after hearing that judge give that decision on no
bond the last go around, after that verdict was read,
I don't think that this judge is going to buy
that Diddy has found this new form of rehabilitation within
these last thirteen months. I'm happy to hear because they've
(18:41):
also mentioned here that this is the first time that
he's been completely sober in about twenty five years. I'm
happy to hear that. But we all know when you
think about addiction, people think about addiction in the long term.
There's a lot of work that's going to need to
be done, whether Diddy is.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Locked up or not.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And as a judge, I think what he's thinking of is, yes,
you want rehabilitation, and this judge has been really really fair.
Did he stood up and think the judge and said
he was fair? You know, at the at the end
of the trial, Stevie J. Says in his letter, thank
you judge for doing basically doing your job and doing
a great job, you know, throughout this trial.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So that has not been the argument. They've tried to
bring that up.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
With the prosecutors, you know, with the prosecutors being unfair
and it being a white versus black thing, but that
didn't really stick.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I don't see the judge leaning in here in Diddy's favor.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I just don't because I think with everything that the
judge has seen and heard, and I'm talking about just
as of recent like the recent stuff right before he
was taken into custody, I think that there is screaming
that there's a bigger problem here and it's something that
if not nipped in the butt for good, it could
(19:53):
harm a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
But it could also harm Diddy himself.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Y'all were talking about there were telling us that Diddy
overdosed at one point and then just you know, went
on about his life.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Y'all.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Let me know what y'all think, though, I want to
hear y'all predictions again, We're back in court in less
than ten days, trying to figure this out.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I wish the best for everybody in this situation, but
that's just where I'm at with That's what I think.
That is my prediction after looking at the facts, presenting
the facts, We're gonna keep going through these packets and
these There's gonna be some things that will come as
we lead into This is the role too, This is
the road to the sentence in of Sean Ditty Combs.
Drop your comments below, Get out there in the streets
(20:33):
and the tweets. We outside, were outside, we outside, outside
of tweet every other page.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Let me know. I want to hear from you, guys.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And at the end of the day, y'all could be
anywhere with anybody, especially following this ditty child, because it
has been all over, but y'all were right here with
me and are still right here with me every single episode.
We've been able to do so much, and I will
be back on NBC for New York recapping the very
last day of court upcoming last dap cork the sentencing
of Sean Diddy Combs. For the segment that I've been
(21:04):
doing with them throughout the full trial, and that happened
because of you guys. That happened because of the podcast
and our coverage, So I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I will see you in my next episode.
Twist.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
came in. Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura L. Rosa
and this is the Latest with Lauren L. Rosa.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room. Now
it's been a while, I think since we've discussed anything
Diddy related, anything trial related. But you guys know, you
know your girl love to take y'all a court, lot
to take y'all a court.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We're on a beat here at.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The Latest with Laura Rosa because we have been following
this case in in court, with this case since it begins.
Now we are literally days away from the sentencing of
Sean Diddy Combs. Diddy will be sentenced on October third.
Today is the twenty third of September. So next week
we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine,
(00:58):
so we have less than it's about nine. So we
at this point, by the time you see this, we
will be ten less than ten days away from the
sentencing of one of the most successful, richest biggest names
in hip hop, in celebrity in general. At this point,
we all know Sewan Ditty Combs in his career has transcended,
(01:19):
transcended just hip hop the sentence and will be going
down to October third. I will be there in court
that day, so I'll be bringing you guys the update,
both here on the podcast the Latest Lona Rosa, but
also on The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think you know.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Today there were new developments because last night, yesterday, Diddy's
lawyers filed a packet, and the packet it's like over
one hundred and sixty pages long. I have not been
able to actually read all of the pages. We did
talk about this a bit on The Breakfast Club this morning,
but in what I was able to read, just in
preparing for that segment this morning, because they also sent
(01:55):
it out pretty late. I got a text around one
am shooting ahead up that the packet was filed and
that you know, certain you know things were now available
for media and like, oh, just all the things from
a source close to the case, and I woke up
to that. So I've not been able to read through
all of the packet, but I am going to read
through all of the packet just because I want to
(02:17):
make sure I fully understand how they're coming about the sentence.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
They is Diddy's legal team. Just from the.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Index of the packet alone, I can tell you that,
you know, from that and also from sitting in court,
they're angling on what they've been talking about and where
they've been from the beginning, just you know, talking a
bit about, you know, the fact that drugs played a role,
the fact that Diddy's upbringing and things that he experienced
and his upbringing, his father being taken away from him,
(02:46):
being killed, a single parent household, and you know, all
those things, drugs in his you know, adult life, the
fact that the Jane Doees were willing participants of things.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The fact that other or John's or whatever you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Call it in a prostitutionous situation are treated a certain
way and sentenced a certain way. And you know, Diddy's
team feels like, because he is who he is, he's
being giving a harsher punishment and things of that nature.
That's what it seems like they're leaning into. Without reading it,
I'll read you guys a bit of the table of contents.
So this basically just lads out and it's one hundred
(03:24):
and eighty two pages to be exact. I have it
here pulled up, so the table of contents, it begins
with an introduction and it goes into the argument. The
argument is where they're gonna lay out like, Okay, here
a lot of the things I just said, here's exactly
what we're saying, like, here's everything we're seeing to you.
Here's everything we're recounting and reciting so as you make
(03:46):
this one last final decision, these are all the things
we want top of mind for you to remember. So
they talk about mister Combs's history and characteristics. They go
into again his upbringing, the effect of the death of
his father, the dedication to his He leans a lot
on family, he has throughout this whole case. But he's
leaned a lot on family and a lot of the
(04:07):
follow up letters, uh, you know, his last request, couple
of requests for Belle after he was sentenced to on
the two charges of the Man Act, and now here
in this sentencing packet, and his daughters, his twin daughters,
his son Quincy, his son Justin, and his son Christian
all submitted character letters as well, just talking about like
(04:27):
how good of a daddy is, why they need him,
how important it is for him to be home. You know,
how the the death of Christian homes and you know,
the twin daughters, the Comes twins, their mother kim Porter,
how her death has impacted them. And then you know,
you take their dad, Diddy, and you put them in jail,
(04:48):
and you know, the girls say their their world has
been shattered, and you know, and it's been devastating for them.
As you can imagine, it's been devastating for them. But
they all talk about that and how good of a
father he is, how he's always.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There showing up for them.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
His mom's letters are also listed in this table of contents.
His mom talks about her age and how her health
is deteriorating, which there were stories in the beginning of
all of this when Diddy was first being arrested for
the indictment and going through other things of her suffering
a slight heart attack.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And going through some health issues. But Diddy's mom.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Was in court every single day. Diddy's mom was there
like she was an attorney. There got to a point
where his daughters were not there. And I think, to
be honest with you, a lot of this stuff that
was being discussed, and that was, you know, being talked
about on the stand and just presented by the attorneys
on both sides.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Was very graphic. So it was kind of like a
couple of times that I.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Was in court and I was in the main courtroom
and his daughters were there, it was kind of like
almost like uneasy.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
For me to have to hear that and watch his
daughters have to hear.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So I don't know how unsettling it was for his daughters,
but I can only imagine because that's their dad. But yeah,
so they weren't in court all the time, but they
were there. His sons were there daying there every day.
His mom was there every single day. I think I
only remember one time that she did not show up.
And not only was she showing up, but you know,
(06:16):
miss Janis Combs, who was Diddy's mother, would also you know,
she wouldn't stop and talk.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
To the media outside all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But you know, we have video of her from outside
of the court on the verdict day, just the crowd
cheering and she's blown kisses and waving. So she was
very well aware that there were some people still there
supporting Diddy and she, you know, she appreciated the love
and she showed that as well. But they also, you know,
have letters from friends. Young Miami Karsha submitted a letter.
(06:47):
She talks about going to the Met gallon, just did
he changing her life and her perspective because you know,
he always showed her how he was able to, you know,
break down doors and barriers for black people through his
black excellence. While breakdown a door is not a good
thing to say about Diddy in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Y'all know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Basically, you know, she talks about her show and going
to the Met gallon, all these opportunities and how that
was life changing for her when he symbolizes or symbolized
because that's the thing too, It's like when Diddy comes home,
what is the legacy? Now that's a major question, like
what is the legacy? But she talks about that, like
what he symbolized at one point for black people and
(07:27):
you know, having a seat at the table.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
She signs the.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Letter judge, that is a good man. Of course, that's
a good man in Savannah is what popped up. But
she signs the letter judge, that is a good man,
his friend, and you know our entertainment. Stevie J also
wrote a letter to the judge and in this letter,
and y'all know in the beginning of all that Stevie
J was like even before Diddy was locked up, STEVEEJ
(07:51):
was right there with him the whole time. I did
not see STEVIEJ at all in court, uh not while
I was there. I did not see him show up
to court where I was there on any of these
I was there. I didn't see him in the courtroom
when I was in the actual main courtroom where you
could see people. But I know, prior to Diddy being
locked up, STEVEEJ was right there with him. There was
videos of STEVEJ and Diddy riding bikes in Miami after
(08:15):
the indictment came down right there with him.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
STEVJ was on the TMZ dot speaking on Diddy's behalf.
He he's just been right there, like literally right there.
But he explains in the letter STEVEJ does and the
letter that STEVJ wrote, he says Diddy showed up for
him in a very crucial time in his life. He says,
you know, his dad was his best friend and Stevie
(08:39):
J says his dad passed away about two years ago
and without even asking him, did he played for basically
majority of the funeral costs because that's just the good
hearted person that he was. That's how STEVJ paints him.
STEVIEJ also talks about them being friends for all of
these decades and years, and you know, he describes himself
(08:59):
by talking about a lot of the work that STEVJ
himself has done with Biggie and you know, Michael Jackson
and all these people, because Diddy and him were friends.
They met in the studio and he says, you know,
did he change his life? So he speaks a lot
to that. He also talks about, you know, them going
through a battle of dealing with drugs and abuse and
(09:20):
all these different things. But STEVEJ himself being in you know,
therapy and doing different things to help his mental health
and the addictions that they experience in that Diddy, you
know and doing the same can also be a changed man.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
He just needs a chance to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So they you know, they poured it on heavy in
the letters, and that's what you do in these letters,
you know, their character statements. People want these statements attorneys
want these statements because they want to judge to see
another side of the person that they've been sitting with
in court and hearing all of these things about for
all of this time. The way that the people are
(09:55):
dragging Kreesia for submitting a letter is insane, though, like
people are coming for Karesha.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Now here's the thing. Whenever we've heard Karsha talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You know, everything with Diddy, everything with Puff, what she saw,
what she did not see. I think, you know, for
the longest that was a question of did she experience
any of the abuse or just anything herself. She's always
said no. Now I think not even think at the
time when everything happened, it was very obvious that she
distanced herself from him, at least publicly that we knew of.
(10:28):
I mean, and she's a music artist with a whole,
big career. She has to at that point. But I
think the upset comes in for people because it's like, Okay,
you didn't see it, you weren't around for her, you
may not have experienced it, but as a public figure,
as a celebrity, as a female rapper and a woman
with platform to stand next to him, Now that you
(10:50):
have is something that we just we're not gonna condone that.
So she has been trending all day. I believe she's
currently trending on Twitter right now as we speak. When
I before us started this show, I always just checked
to see with Sherindan, I do that about like five
times a day. But before I started this show, she
was trending across Twitter.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yes, she's still trending.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
She is trending number twenty eight across the United States
right now because of this letter that she wrote in
support of Diddy, where she told the judge that is
a good man. Okay, Savannah, that is a good man. Now, listen, y'all,
let me know what y'all think, because what Karesha is
referencing in this letter is all of the work that
she's saying Diddy has done to become a better person.
Everybody in these letters, Diddy's legals team, that is, you know,
(11:32):
they want Diddy to get some time served, be able
to come home, go into rehabilitation, be supervised. They're saying
the time that he has been behind bars was enough
rehabilitation for him.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
What y'all think?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Do you guys think that it is only fair for Diddy? Too,
because of what he was actually convicted of, which where
the prostitution acts right, the man acts to count of it.
Do y'all think it's fair for Diddy to come home?
So Diddy's legal team is saying that it's only fair.
It says, as discussed at length above. So this is
(12:09):
on page this is what page two, as discussed at
length above, the proposed sentence is the only just and
fair sentence for mister Colmes for all of the reasons
set forth here. So they talk about the guidelines. They say,
you know, this is what the sentence guidelines say, and
it's what we should believe.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And what they say is is that.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
If he is given the fourteen month sentence, there should
be a supervised release because they're going to want time
serve and he's already done about fourteen months. They talked
it at a thirteen months so far, so there should
be a supervised release. According to the Diddy's team, drug
treatment therapy and group therapy in the sentence, and that
(12:53):
would make it sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to
accomplish the traditional goal of sentencing. So basically they're saying
to the judge, if you want him to continue to
serve out what the consequence should be and not overpunish him.
Here's exactly what needs to happen, y'all. Let me know,
do y'all think that it's fair? But also too What
I'm looking at if i'm the judge, is has he
(13:15):
actually learned his lesson in all of this? Because if
I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I mean, just
drop your predictions below. My prediction is that the judge
is not going to go for a time served in
the supervisor release. I think the judge I don't see
Diddy because the acts that he's charged of are charged of.
The acts he's convicted of carry up to twenty years
(13:36):
ten years per act, right, But the prosecutors are saying, oh,
let's look at about four to five years. His team
is like a year is what we should be looking
at with all of these stipulations. Once he's released, and
here's the time he's already done. He's already done a
little fourteen months, a little over a year, year and
two months, he's already done thirteen. I don't think that
(13:59):
the judge is going to go with this because I
think a judge is going to continue like from the.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yo, I thought, and I said it. I thought that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Diddy was going to be given a bell that last
go around when he was found not guilty of the
serious of the more serious charges the Rico Act, and
it was just the Man Act charges. I'm like, Okay,
at least they'll give him a bell. He'll be able
to go home until the sentencing and then because I
didn't believe then that his sentencing or what he would
(14:29):
be sentenced would be low. I've always thought that it
would be somewhere around like six I thought it would
be around like six to eight.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So even the.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Prosecutor saying four to five years, I think it's like,
I really think that a judge is going to end
and land somewhere around like three years.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I don't see.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I really don't see what the prosecutors are requesting. I
don't see fourteen months and all this, you know, welcome
home supervising because that day that that verdict happened and
the judge had to say, no, you're not going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Bring that on back over here. You're not going nowhere.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
One of the biggest things he kept pointing to was
all of Diddy, Like all of Diddy's actions after the indictment.
Because here's the thing, and a lot of these letters, right,
like if we go back up to page one where
we're talking about this introduction, right or not the introduction,
we're talking about this table of contents. Literally, you know
(15:39):
they talk about mister Combs being dedicated to his family.
He was dedicated to his family before and after the RICO.
Mister his career, his work history, you know, his mom
and her health and all these people he's helped, and
you know, all the things, all the things that he
has on the line. The biggest point here is that
(16:00):
after that indictment, there were still things that happened. Police,
the prosecutors say when they went to arrest Diddy, they
found the drugs in his room, they found the setup
for another alleged freak golf. There had been conversation about
whether he had reached out to witnesses or not. You know,
(16:22):
there's text messages and different things that were submitted, conversations
that we had about you know, him knowing he wasn't
supposed to be talking on certain phones and talking about
certain things, but doing certain things. Now, with all of
this being said, I think the biggest thing here is
and in the of course mean, of course there's that
Cassie video, which is way before the indictment, but the
(16:42):
way that that was handled in the beginning has also
and I think, you know, people were like, oh my god,
it's unfair to keep bringing up the video. But these
character letters and in the fact that they have about
let me tell y'all, I think they have almost twenty
character references.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I mean, it's is Diddy. He's a celebrity. So the you're.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Gonna have that they have about sixty. No, they have
over seventy letters because Exhibit seventy one is additional letters
of support, so they have they have almost somewhere near
or over a little over one hundred letters of character
reference support. The reason why Diddy's attorneys are leaning so
much into trying to clear up his character is because
(17:26):
what you saw on that video, what we saw in
photos as evidence in the court from the hotel he
was waiting in to turn himself, in the conversations we've
heard and you know, text message and email and voice
notes of just things that showed did he truly.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Understanding his power?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But more so, the prosecutors are kind of using what
the defense is saying and working it in their favor
very well here because Diddy's team leans a lot into
the drug stuff. He wasn't thinking clearly because of his addiction,
because of his mental health, because of things he's been through.
(18:09):
The prosecutors are like, well, yeah, okay, but he needs
to be rehabilitated, and that doesn't happen in the time
that you guys are saying, and that's going to be
the judge's decision.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But I do.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Think after hearing that judge give that decision on no
bond the last go around, after that verdict was read,
I don't think that this judge is going to buy
that Diddy has found this new form of rehabilitation within
these last thirteen months. I'm happy to hear because they've
(18:41):
also mentioned here that this is the first time that
he's been completely sober in about twenty five years. I'm
happy to hear that. But we all know when you
think about addiction, people think about addiction in the long term.
There's a lot of work that's going to need to
be done, whether Diddy is.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Locked up or not.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And as a judge, I think what he's thinking of is, yes,
you want rehabilitation, and this judge has been really really fair.
Did he stood up and think the judge and said
he was fair? You know, at the at the end
of the trial, Stevie J. Says in his letter, thank
you judge for doing basically doing your job and doing
a great job, you know, throughout this trial.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So that has not been the argument. They've tried to
bring that up.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
With the prosecutors, you know, with the prosecutors being unfair
and it being a white versus black thing, but that
didn't really stick.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I don't see the judge leaning in here in Diddy's favor.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I just don't because I think with everything that the
judge has seen and heard, and I'm talking about just
as of recent like the recent stuff right before he
was taken into custody, I think that there is screaming
that there's a bigger problem here and it's something that
if not nipped in the butt for good, it could
(19:53):
harm a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
But it could also harm Diddy himself.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Y'all were talking about there were telling us that Diddy
overdosed at one point and then just you know, went
on about his life.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Y'all.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Let me know what y'all think, though, I want to
hear y'all predictions again, We're back in court in less
than ten days, trying to figure this out.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I wish the best for everybody in this situation, but
that's just where I'm at with That's what I think.
That is my prediction after looking at the facts, presenting
the facts, We're gonna keep going through these packets and
these There's gonna be some things that will come as
we lead into This is the role too, This is
the road to the sentence in of Sean Ditty Combs.
Drop your comments below, Get out there in the streets
(20:33):
and the tweets. We outside, were outside, we outside, outside
of tweet every other page.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Let me know. I want to hear from you, guys.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And at the end of the day, y'all could be
anywhere with anybody, especially following this ditty child, because it
has been all over, but y'all were right here with
me and are still right here with me every single episode.
We've been able to do so much, and I will
be back on NBC for New York recapping the very
last day of court upcoming last dap cork the sentencing
of Sean Diddy Combs. For the segment that I've been
(21:04):
doing with them throughout the full trial, and that happened
because of you guys. That happened because of the podcast
and our coverage, So I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I will see you in my next episode.
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