October 3, 2025 • 10 mins
Reid Carter breaks into regular OJ anniversary coverage with breaking news from Manhattan Federal Court. Sean "Diddy" Combs was just sentenced to 50 months for transportation to engage in prostitution after calling his actions "disgusting, shameful and sick." The judge rejected both the prosecution's request for 11 years and the defense's plea for time served. With credit for 13 months already in custody, the Bad Boy founder has 37 months left. Reid covers the dramatic sentencing where Combs broke down crying, his children watched from the gallery, and the judge told him he "brutally assaulted" women he claimed to love.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Kalaroga Shark Media. This is Reid Carter with breaking news.
We interrupt our Oj simpson thirtieth anniversary coverage because Sean
Diddy Comb's was just sentenced to federal prison fifty months,
just over four years, for two counts of transportation to
(00:24):
engage in prostitution. The man who ran the Bad Boy
Empire will be a federal inmate until twenty twenty eight.
Judge Aaron's Subramanian just handed down the sentence in Manhattan
Federal Court. Did he stood there in his button down
shirt they let him wear civilian clothes instead of prison garb,
and heard his fate, his children, watching his empire crumbling,
(00:47):
his freedom gone. This is Celebrity Trials breaking news. Let
me paint you the scene from Manhattan Federal Court this morning. SHAWNK. Holmes,
fifty five years old, enters in civilian clothes, a small victory.
His lawyers fought for one button down shirt, one pair
(01:08):
of pants, one sweater dress, shoes without laces. The judge
was very specific about what he could wear even facing prison.
Image matters to Ditty. His children are in the gallery,
Quincy Chance, Jesse, Delilah watching their father face justice for
crimes they probably can't comprehend. The same man who gave
(01:28):
them everything money could buy is about to lose everything
money can't. Diddy addresses the court. His voice breaks. My
actions were disgusting, shameful, and sick. I was sick, sick
from the drugs. I was out of control. I needed
help and I didn't get the help. And I cannot
make no excuse because my mother taught me. His mother,
(01:52):
Janis Combs, eighty four years old, whose house he tried
to use as bail collateral. Now hearing her son admit
to being a monster, he continues the scene in images
of me assaulting Cassie play over and over in my
head daily. I literally lost my mind. I was dead
wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved.
(02:14):
I'm sorry for that and always will be. That hotel video,
the twenty sixteen footage of him beating Cassie Ventura in
a hotel hallway, dragging her, the video that destroyed his denials,
the video that proved everything his victims said was true.
The prosecutor, Christy Slavic, isn't buying the remorse. The defendant
(02:38):
very clearly knew what he was doing was wrong and illegal,
and he did it anyway for fifteen years. He is
a master manipulator of his own image. That image is
incomplete and misleading. Fifteen years, that's how long, the government
says did he ran his criminal enterprise, forcing women into
freak offs marathon sex sessions with male prostitutes while he
(03:01):
watched and recorded, using the recordings as blackmail, building an
empire on exploitation. The defense tried everything. Mark Agnifilo, his
lead attorney, argued Diddy had already been punished enough. He
was treated in a stern, punishing fashion, and the world
knows that this is probably one of the greatest general
(03:23):
deterrence cases because everyone knows what happened to Sean Combs.
Everyone knows that's not punishment, that's exposure. There's a difference
between being caught and being consequences. Judge Supermanian wasn't having it.
He looked directly at Combs. You brutally assaulted Jane. You
abuse the women you claim to love physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
(03:47):
We read about it in text messages and emails. We
saw it in the images of gashes, bruises, broken doors,
and we saw the video of your savage beating of
mis Ventura, savage beating. That's a federal judge calling Diddy savage.
Not the streets, not the media, the law, the judge continues.
(04:07):
What strikes me about your claim that you are remorseful
is that you assaulted Jane in June twenty twenty four,
even after authorities executed search warrants, even after the hotel
video was released, even after you gave an apology on Instagram.
Think about that, after being raided by the FEDS after
his assault video went viral, after publicly apologizing, he was
(04:29):
still assaulting women. That's not addiction, that's who you are.
Then comes the sentence, fifty months. The prosecution wanted one
hundred and thirty five months over eleven years. The defense
wanted fourteen months, essentially time served. The judge split it,
but not down the middle. Fifty months is a message
(04:51):
you're going to prison, but not forever. You'll have time
to think, but also time to possibly redeem yourself with
credit for the thirteen months he's already he served. Since
his arrest in September twenty twenty four, Diddy has thirty
seven more months three years and change. He'll be fifty
eight when he gets out, still rich, still famous, but
(05:12):
forever marked as the mogul who went to federal prison
for prostitution. We'll be right back with what this means
for Diddy's empire and the women who brought him down.
(05:39):
Let's talk about what fifty months really means for Sean Combs. First,
he dodged a bullet. The jury acquitted him of sex
trafficking and racketeering charges in July. Those carried potential life sentences.
He was convicted on the lesser charges, two counts of
transportation for prostitution maximum twenty years. He got four. His
(05:59):
life lawyers are already planning appeals. They've mentioned reaching out
to the Trump administration about a potential pardon. Yes, they're
hoping Donald Trump, of all people, will pardon Diddy. Good
luck with that. Trump's got his own legal problems, and
pardoning a convicted pimp is an exactly on brand even
for him. But here's what did He said in his
(06:20):
letter to the judge that tells you everything. Over the
past year, there have been so many times that I
wanted to give up. There have been some days I
thought I would be better off dead. The old me
died in jail, and a new version of me was
reborn better off dead. This man who had everything money, fame, power, respect,
(06:41):
thought he'd be better off dead when he finally faced consequences.
That's not redemption, that's self pity. He's been teaching business
classes at MDC Brooklyn. Inmates wrote letters supporting him. His
defense presented this as rehabilitation. The prosecution called it image management.
A man who manipulated his image for decades is still
(07:02):
doing it from a federal detention center. His children will
visit him in federal prison for the next three years.
His empire will continue crumbling. Bad boy records will become
a cautionary tale about power and abuse. His legacy went
from hip hop mogul to convicted criminal. Cassie Ventura didn't
speak at sentencing, but her presence was felt. The victim
(07:23):
who started it all with her lawsuit that opened the floodgates.
The video of him beating her was played in court again.
Judge Subramanian quoted her testimony about being controlled and coerced
into freak offs against her will. The woman known as
Jane testified about being assaulted as recently as June twenty
twenty four. Another woman Mia provided victim impact statements. The
(07:46):
defense called lies. These women risked everything to testify. They
got fifty months of justice. Not enough, but something. Here's
my take, Diddy got lucky in the era of me
too faith seeing federal sex trafficking charges with video evidence
of beating women. He could have gotten decades, should have
(08:06):
gotten decades. Fifty months is a gift. He'll serve it
at a federal facility, probably medium security, given his celebrity status,
three hots and a cot, better healthcare than most Americans
conjugal visits. Eventually, it's punishment, but it's not suffering. Meanwhile,
his victims live with trauma forever. Cassie with the memories
(08:30):
of being beaten, Jane with the assault from just last year.
All the women who were trafficked, coerced, recorded and blackmailed.
They don't get to serve their time and walk free.
They carry it forever. Sean Combs will be out before
the twenty twenty eight Olympics. He'll be fifty eight, still wealthy,
probably planning a comeback. There'll be a documentary, a book,
(08:52):
maybe an album called Redemption or some nonsense. America loves
a comeback story, even for monsters. Today, October third, twenty
twenty five. Shaan ditty Comb's is federal inmate number whatever.
He'll trade his designer clothes for prison khakis, his mansion
for a cell, his empire for thirty seven more months
(09:12):
of contemplating how he got here. The answer is simple.
He thought money made him untouchable, Fame made him invincible,
power made him god. He was wrong on all counts.
Even bad boys go to prison, even moguls face justice.
Even Didty has to pay fifty months one thousand, five
hundred twenty days thirty six thousan four hundred eighty hours,
(09:34):
not nearly enough for what he did, but more than
he ever thought he'd serve. Sometimes, that's what passes for
justice in America. That's our breaking news. Shawn ditty Combe's
sentenced to fifty months in federal prison for transportation to
engage in prostitution. With time served, he's got thirty seven
months left. We'll return to our regular O. J. Simpson
(09:55):
Anniversary coverage this weekend with bonus episodes on the aftermath
of that trial. Monday, we're back to daily coverage with
full analysis of the ditty sentencing and whatever fresh murders America.
Produces over the weekend. I'm read Carter. Today marks exactly
thirty years since OJ Simpson was acquitted of double murder.
(10:16):
Today also marks the day Sean Combs was held accountable
for his crimes. Two different eras, two different outcomes, both
proof that celebrity justice is still justice delayed, justice denied, or,
in Ditty's case, justice discounted. The bad boy era is
officially over. The federal inmate era begins. Now. This has
(10:37):
been celebrity trials breaking news.
Kalaroga Shark Media. This is Reid Carter with breaking news.
We interrupt our Oj simpson thirtieth anniversary coverage because Sean
Diddy Comb's was just sentenced to federal prison fifty months,
just over four years, for two counts of transportation to
(00:24):
engage in prostitution. The man who ran the Bad Boy
Empire will be a federal inmate until twenty twenty eight.
Judge Aaron's Subramanian just handed down the sentence in Manhattan
Federal Court. Did he stood there in his button down
shirt they let him wear civilian clothes instead of prison garb,
and heard his fate, his children, watching his empire crumbling,
(00:47):
his freedom gone. This is Celebrity Trials breaking news. Let
me paint you the scene from Manhattan Federal Court this morning. SHAWNK. Holmes,
fifty five years old, enters in civilian clothes, a small victory.
His lawyers fought for one button down shirt, one pair
(01:08):
of pants, one sweater dress, shoes without laces. The judge
was very specific about what he could wear even facing prison.
Image matters to Ditty. His children are in the gallery,
Quincy Chance, Jesse, Delilah watching their father face justice for
crimes they probably can't comprehend. The same man who gave
(01:28):
them everything money could buy is about to lose everything
money can't. Diddy addresses the court. His voice breaks. My
actions were disgusting, shameful, and sick. I was sick, sick
from the drugs. I was out of control. I needed
help and I didn't get the help. And I cannot
make no excuse because my mother taught me. His mother,
(01:52):
Janis Combs, eighty four years old, whose house he tried
to use as bail collateral. Now hearing her son admit
to being a monster, he continues the scene in images
of me assaulting Cassie play over and over in my
head daily. I literally lost my mind. I was dead
wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved.
(02:14):
I'm sorry for that and always will be. That hotel video,
the twenty sixteen footage of him beating Cassie Ventura in
a hotel hallway, dragging her, the video that destroyed his denials,
the video that proved everything his victims said was true.
The prosecutor, Christy Slavic, isn't buying the remorse. The defendant
(02:38):
very clearly knew what he was doing was wrong and illegal,
and he did it anyway for fifteen years. He is
a master manipulator of his own image. That image is
incomplete and misleading. Fifteen years, that's how long, the government
says did he ran his criminal enterprise, forcing women into
freak offs marathon sex sessions with male prostitutes while he
(03:01):
watched and recorded, using the recordings as blackmail, building an
empire on exploitation. The defense tried everything. Mark Agnifilo, his
lead attorney, argued Diddy had already been punished enough. He
was treated in a stern, punishing fashion, and the world
knows that this is probably one of the greatest general
(03:23):
deterrence cases because everyone knows what happened to Sean Combs.
Everyone knows that's not punishment, that's exposure. There's a difference
between being caught and being consequences. Judge Supermanian wasn't having it.
He looked directly at Combs. You brutally assaulted Jane. You
abuse the women you claim to love physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
(03:47):
We read about it in text messages and emails. We
saw it in the images of gashes, bruises, broken doors,
and we saw the video of your savage beating of
mis Ventura, savage beating. That's a federal judge calling Diddy savage.
Not the streets, not the media, the law, the judge continues.
(04:07):
What strikes me about your claim that you are remorseful
is that you assaulted Jane in June twenty twenty four,
even after authorities executed search warrants, even after the hotel
video was released, even after you gave an apology on Instagram.
Think about that, after being raided by the FEDS after
his assault video went viral, after publicly apologizing, he was
(04:29):
still assaulting women. That's not addiction, that's who you are.
Then comes the sentence, fifty months. The prosecution wanted one
hundred and thirty five months over eleven years. The defense
wanted fourteen months, essentially time served. The judge split it,
but not down the middle. Fifty months is a message
(04:51):
you're going to prison, but not forever. You'll have time
to think, but also time to possibly redeem yourself with
credit for the thirteen months he's already he served. Since
his arrest in September twenty twenty four, Diddy has thirty
seven more months three years and change. He'll be fifty
eight when he gets out, still rich, still famous, but
(05:12):
forever marked as the mogul who went to federal prison
for prostitution. We'll be right back with what this means
for Diddy's empire and the women who brought him down.
(05:39):
Let's talk about what fifty months really means for Sean Combs. First,
he dodged a bullet. The jury acquitted him of sex
trafficking and racketeering charges in July. Those carried potential life sentences.
He was convicted on the lesser charges, two counts of
transportation for prostitution maximum twenty years. He got four. His
(05:59):
life lawyers are already planning appeals. They've mentioned reaching out
to the Trump administration about a potential pardon. Yes, they're
hoping Donald Trump, of all people, will pardon Diddy. Good
luck with that. Trump's got his own legal problems, and
pardoning a convicted pimp is an exactly on brand even
for him. But here's what did He said in his
(06:20):
letter to the judge that tells you everything. Over the
past year, there have been so many times that I
wanted to give up. There have been some days I
thought I would be better off dead. The old me
died in jail, and a new version of me was
reborn better off dead. This man who had everything money, fame, power, respect,
(06:41):
thought he'd be better off dead when he finally faced consequences.
That's not redemption, that's self pity. He's been teaching business
classes at MDC Brooklyn. Inmates wrote letters supporting him. His
defense presented this as rehabilitation. The prosecution called it image management.
A man who manipulated his image for decades is still
(07:02):
doing it from a federal detention center. His children will
visit him in federal prison for the next three years.
His empire will continue crumbling. Bad boy records will become
a cautionary tale about power and abuse. His legacy went
from hip hop mogul to convicted criminal. Cassie Ventura didn't
speak at sentencing, but her presence was felt. The victim
(07:23):
who started it all with her lawsuit that opened the floodgates.
The video of him beating her was played in court again.
Judge Subramanian quoted her testimony about being controlled and coerced
into freak offs against her will. The woman known as
Jane testified about being assaulted as recently as June twenty
twenty four. Another woman Mia provided victim impact statements. The
(07:46):
defense called lies. These women risked everything to testify. They
got fifty months of justice. Not enough, but something. Here's
my take, Diddy got lucky in the era of me
too faith seeing federal sex trafficking charges with video evidence
of beating women. He could have gotten decades, should have
(08:06):
gotten decades. Fifty months is a gift. He'll serve it
at a federal facility, probably medium security, given his celebrity status,
three hots and a cot, better healthcare than most Americans
conjugal visits. Eventually, it's punishment, but it's not suffering. Meanwhile,
his victims live with trauma forever. Cassie with the memories
(08:30):
of being beaten, Jane with the assault from just last year.
All the women who were trafficked, coerced, recorded and blackmailed.
They don't get to serve their time and walk free.
They carry it forever. Sean Combs will be out before
the twenty twenty eight Olympics. He'll be fifty eight, still wealthy,
probably planning a comeback. There'll be a documentary, a book,
(08:52):
maybe an album called Redemption or some nonsense. America loves
a comeback story, even for monsters. Today, October third, twenty
twenty five. Shaan ditty Comb's is federal inmate number whatever.
He'll trade his designer clothes for prison khakis, his mansion
for a cell, his empire for thirty seven more months
(09:12):
of contemplating how he got here. The answer is simple.
He thought money made him untouchable, Fame made him invincible,
power made him god. He was wrong on all counts.
Even bad boys go to prison, even moguls face justice.
Even Didty has to pay fifty months one thousand, five
hundred twenty days thirty six thousan four hundred eighty hours,
(09:34):
not nearly enough for what he did, but more than
he ever thought he'd serve. Sometimes, that's what passes for
justice in America. That's our breaking news. Shawn ditty Combe's
sentenced to fifty months in federal prison for transportation to
engage in prostitution. With time served, he's got thirty seven
months left. We'll return to our regular O. J. Simpson
(09:55):
Anniversary coverage this weekend with bonus episodes on the aftermath
of that trial. Monday, we're back to daily coverage with
full analysis of the ditty sentencing and whatever fresh murders America.
Produces over the weekend. I'm read Carter. Today marks exactly
thirty years since OJ Simpson was acquitted of double murder.
(10:16):
Today also marks the day Sean Combs was held accountable
for his crimes. Two different eras, two different outcomes, both
proof that celebrity justice is still justice delayed, justice denied, or,
in Ditty's case, justice discounted. The bad boy era is
officially over. The federal inmate era begins. Now. This has
(10:37):
been celebrity trials breaking news.
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