Overview

• A federal jury earlier convicted Combs on two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution tied to organized encounters described as “freak-offs” and “hotel nights.”
• Jurors acquitted him of sex‑trafficking and racketeering charges, leaving the Mann Act convictions to determine the punishment.
• Witnesses, including singer Casandra Ventura (Cassie), testified to coercive and abusive experiences during those encounters.
• Combs remains in custody with roughly a year credited toward the sentence, and reporting indicates he could remain imprisoned into 2028 based on time‑served calculations.
• At sentencing he apologized and asked for clemency, as family and lawyers described efforts at self-improvement, and former protégé Aubrey O’Day urged young artists to guard against abuse of power.