Diddy files motion for pre-sentencing release

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Sean Combs asks to be released from jail ahead of his sentencing on October 3, following his acquittal on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.

Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs filed a 12-page motion on Tuesday asking for their client’s release ahead of his October 3 sentencing. The hip-hop mogul was acquitted earlier this month on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, but still faces prison time for a charge of transportation to engage in prostitution.

Combs’ lawyers address U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian’s concerns regarding violence, claiming he has not been violent since the end of his relationship with Cassie Ventura in 2018. That is, apart from a lone incident in 2024 with a Jane Doe who testified during the trial that she started the fight with Combs.

“If released on conditions, Sean Combs will not be violent to anyone,” write his attorneys. “As we said in court, this jury gave him his life back, and he will not squander his second chance at life. […] The Court can fashion any set of conditions, and Mr. Combs will abide by any condition, to make the Court comfortable that Mr. Combs will not be violent toward any person.”

Combs and his attorneys are offering a $50 million bond secured by his Miami mansion, the location at which he would like to await his sentencing while under the supervision of the U.S. Pretrial Services Agency. Further, he is offering to forfeit his passport and restrict his travel to the Southern District of Florida and the Southern District of New York for attorney meetings.

His legal team is pushing for Combs to receive a minimum sentence, which they place at between 21 and 27 months in prison. Meanwhile, Southern District of New York prosecutors said the sentencing guidelines called for 51 to 63 months’ imprisonment, noting they would likely seek an even longer incarceration period.

Combs is facing a significantly shorter sentence than the life sentence he would have been facing had he been found guilty of the other charges against him. But his attorneys say he plans to appeal his conviction on the prostitution charges.

“We’re not going to be satisfied until he’s home,” his defense attorney, Nicole Westmoreland, told The New York Times.