Overview

• Sean Combs will be sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Friday after a jury convicted him in July on two Mann Act transportation-for-prostitution counts and acquitted him of sex-trafficking and racketeering.
• Prosecutors asked for at least 11 years and three months in prison, citing decades of abusive conduct and a lack of remorse, while the defense urged a sentence around time served based on roughly 13 months in custody.
• Judge Arun Subramanian this week rejected Combs’ bid to overturn the convictions, writing that illegal activity cannot be recast as constitutionally protected filming.
• Cassie Ventura and other witnesses submitted letters urging a substantial sentence and describing ongoing fear, with Ventura saying she moved her family from New York for safety.
• A woman identified as “Victim 3,” Virginia Huynh, told the court she does not consider herself a trafficking victim and said she felt pressured by federal prosecutors to portray herself as one; Combs is expected to address the court at the hearing.