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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces sentencing –

Rapper Loon (Chauncey Hawkins) and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs at the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida in August 2003. (Photo by Julia Beverly/Getty Images)

Bad Boy Records’ Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Conrad Dimanche, and Tracey Waples view footage on the set of Loon’s “Down For Me” video shoot at the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida in August 2003. (Photo by Julia Beverly/Getty Images)

Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is just days away from being sentenced on prostitution-related charges, following his high-profile trial earlier this year.Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to be sentenced over prostitution-related charges next week.

The hip-hop mogul has already served just over a year in prison after being arrested in New York in September 2023.Following his high-profile trial earlier in 2025, he was found guilty of two counts of transportation for engagement in prostitution – but cleared of the more serious charges of sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.

Combs, 55, was one of the most influential hip-hop producers of the 1990s and 2000s, the founder of Bad Boy Records and a Grammy-winning artist in his own right.

Now, he faces up to 20 years in jail – although his defence team is arguing for much less.

During the trial, the court heard details of sexual encounters called “freak offs” by Combs – also referred to as “hotel nights” – which involved his girlfriends and male sex workers.

The rapper would “orchestrate” these encounters between the women and the sex workers, while he watched. Sometimes, these sessions would take place in different states across the US, as well as abroad, and Combs would pay for the sex workers and the women to travel.During the trial, the court heard details of sexual encounters called “freak offs” by Combs – also referred to as “hotel nights” – which involved his girlfriends and male sex workers.

The rapper would “orchestrate” these encounters between the women and the sex workers, while he watched. Sometimes, these sessions would take place in different states across the US, as well as abroad, and Combs would pay for the sex workers and the women to travel.

Combs was found not guilty of two counts of sex-trafficking, relating to both Cassie and Jane, and one count of racketeering conspiracy.

This means while jurors believed Combs broke the law over using sex workers, they did not find the sexual encounters involving the women were non-consensual, which is what prosecutors had argued.

Both Cassie and Jane gave evidence, telling the court they felt manipulated and coerced, and sometimes blackmailed, into taking part in the freak offs during their relationships with the rapper. However, defence lawyers argued these were consensual encounters and part of a “swingers lifestyle”.

“The men chose to travel and engage in the activity voluntarily,” defence lawyers said in legal submissions after the verdict. “The verdict confirms the women were not vulnerable or exploited or trafficked or sexually assaulted during the freak offs or hotel nights.”Teny Geragos, one of Combs’ attorneys, broke out in tears. His lead attorney, Marc Agnifilo, made a fist in triumph as the defense team hugged one another and hugged his family.

“It’s a great victory for Sean Combs,” Agnifilo told reporters outside the courthouse. “It’s a great victory for the jury system. You saw that the Southern District of New York prosecutors came at him with all that they had.”Outside court, Combs’ supporters celebrated with baby oil, an apparent reference to supplies witnesses said were provided for “freak offs.” A woman in a bikini danced as a man drizzled baby oil on her from a nearby ledge.

Amid the throngs of onlookers were the influencers who have been chronicling the trial from the courthouse since it began roughly two months ago.

Los Angeles-based YouTuber Armon Wiggins, who has more than 285,000 followers, declined to share his thoughts about the verdict itself but acknowledged a victory of a different sort.

“We changed the face of media. We changed the face of how news gets out,” Wiggins said. “It was a fight in the beginning, because a lot of times people don’t respect the new media, but I’m one of those people who’s willing to fight with the traditional media because we do numbers.”

The trial has drawn nationwide attention. No cameras were allowed in court, so to follow along with what was happening in the courtroom, people turned to traditional media sources, as well as influencers who were at the trial.

Wiggins said that since he began covering the trial, he’s gained about 60,000 new followers on YouTube and nabbed several radio and TV appearances, including on TMZ and NewsNation.

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