Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Requests 14-Month Supervised Release (1)

Music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs urged a federal court in New York to sentence him to 14 months of supervised release after his recent conviction for transporting prostitutes.

A federal jury acquitted Combs of the more serious offenses of racketeering and sex trafficking earlier this year. But the government recommended a prison term of six to seven years.

The government’s recommendation was too harsh, Combs said in his sentencing memorandum filed Monday with Judge Arun Subramanian of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Instead, the 14 months “accurately reflects the seriousness of the offenses and is in line with other Mann Act sentences,” Combs said.

Subramanian denied Combs’ request for bail pending his sentencing. At the time, he said Combs’ arguments for getting out as he awaits his sentence “might have traction in a case that didn’t involve evidence of violence, coercion, or subjugation in connection with the acts of prostitution at issue, but the record here contains evidence of all three.”

The judge explained that he wasn’t offering a “view as to how the parties’ competing arguments about the evidence will cash out for purposes of sentencing.” He also said that “the record doesn’t establish the kind of ‘out of the ordinary’ exceptional circumstances requiring immediate release.”

The convictions for transporting prostitutes across state lines stem from allegation that Combs paid sex workers to attend his “dayslong, drug-fueled sex parties” he called “freak-offs.” But in the memorandum, Combs said that the government was trying to criminalize threesomes between consenting adults.

Combs has already served 13 months in jail, “where he became sober for the first time in 25 years, and had an ‘incident free record,’” the filing said. Combs’ arrest destroyed his reputation and business, and his seven children and elderly mother need him, it said.

The memorandum specifically requested, “a 14-month sentence with supervised release mandating” drug treatment and therapy.

Sentencing is currently scheduled for Oct. 3.

Agnifilo Intrater LLP, Shapiro Arato Bach LLP, The Steel Law Firm PC, Westmoreland Law LLC, Xavier Donaldson of New York, and Harris Trzaskoma LLP represent Combs.

The case is United States v. Combs, S.D.N.Y., No. 1:24-cr-00542, memorandum filed 9/22/25.