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Courtroom sketch

90 days prior, Sean "Diddy" Combs knelt down in a New York court after a jury acquitted him of charges related to trafficking and racketeering.

"I'm coming home," he said, rotating to see his loved ones, who had stood by him daily the court case.

During Friday's session, a quieter iteration of the hip-hop mogul sat emotionless and still in his position, as the magistrate ruled against him to in excess of 48 months in detention.

After Judge Arun Subramanian finished reading his ruling, the entertainer peered over his shoulder at his relatives and looked to silently form the phrase: "I love you, I'm sorry."

It was a quiet moment to mark the end of a turbulent two-month court case that irrevocably transformed the general view of Combs - previously among the globe's most renowned hip-hop artists.

Courtroom Displays

The tribunal observed graphic videos of Combs' reputed gatherings - sex parties he had filmed involving professional escorts and his former partner Cassandra Ventura and "Jane", an unidentified complainant.

Furthermore they witnessed a recording that had earlier spread online, of him striking Ventura in a hotel hallway.

Legal Outcomes

Back in July, a panel of 12 New Yorkers found the 55-year-old not guilty of organized crime and trafficking accusations - potentially leading to permanent imprisonment - but found him guilty of arranging transport for prostitution purposes.

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Family members arriving for sentencing

During Friday's proceedings, the judge informed a dejected Combs that his crimes and abuse of his past romantic interests merited four years and two months in incarceration.

During his address to the court that Combs had employed his celebrity and influence to "dominate" his victims, the entertainment tycoon remained looking downward, staying impassive for the magistrate's twenty-minute address.

His contingent of more than three dozen loved ones were packed in the courtroom supporting him.

Legal Arguments

His lawyers anticipated he would be released from incarceration in a short period, requesting from the court a sentence of 14 months, thirteen of those he had earlier fulfilled.

Prosecutors had accused Combs of managing a unlawful operation to force females into undesired and chemically-induced intimate encounters.

Despite being found not guilty of those most serious of those charges, prostitution trafficking and racketeering, they had asked for a sentence of in excess of a decade in prison.

Legal Hearings

Over the course of the day-long proceeding, the court listened to hours of speeches from multiple legal representatives, his sons and daughters, a religious leader and a penal system reform activist who told the court that Combs was a transformed and clean individual since detention.

Furthermore they observed a assembled recording from his legal team featuring him with his sons and daughters as well as the funeral of his former girlfriend Kim Porter, the mother of some of his children who deceased three years prior.

Complainant Consequences

However the tribunal didn't receive from the accusers personally, following an individual who intended to address the court, Mia, a former assistant of Combs who provided testimony incognito, retracted subsequent to the attorneys prepared a correspondence calling her a liar.

Subramanian thanked the "strong women" who had the bravery to step forward with the allegations against Combs, informing them they weren't merely addressing 12 men and women in the jury box".

Instead of personal testimonies on Friday, Subramanian read several of the victims' remarks from court statements, telling Combs: "These were serious offences that unfixably injured two women."

Accused's Speech

The defendant personally spoke the judicial body primarily since the beginning of his trial.

Exhaling deeply prior to rising to deliver his statement, he begged the magistrate for "compassion".

He reviewed utilizing eyewear from a piece of paper in front of him, attempting to sustain visual connection with the magistrate while informing him: "I have no one to fault except myself."

He began crying as he turned around to face his relatives and inform his maternal parent: "I let you down as an offspring."

Family Testimony

The moment represented another instance crying occurred during the hearing.

Multiple supporter individuals wept while six offspring came to the lectern to request the magistrate for a lenient judgment, informing him they required their paternal parent.

The trio of daughters and trio of sons grouped tightly with interlocked limbs as numerous teared up while addressing the magistrate.

Sentencing Rationale

The court official expressed during ruling that he had accounted for Combs' relative relationships, but mentioned he needed to include the harm he had inflicted to his pair of complainants.

The violations were significant, he added, observing they occurred despite a federal investigation and the leak of a video featuring him striking Ventura in the passageway of accommodation facility.

"A history of good works can't wash away your past," he declared.

Final Words

However, he informed a distressed Combs, who twice tilted his head up and sighed, there was light at the end of his jail sentence.

"Sir Combs, yourself and your relatives, you are going to get through this," he said.

After the magistrate completed his address, Combs provided a swift gesture to his numerous relatives and companions, before slipping quietly back through the door to be returned to a government detention facility in the Brooklyn area.