Overview
- The president told the New York Times he received Combs’s plea in a letter and does not intend to grant clemency.
- Combs was sentenced in October to four years and two months in prison and a fine tied to prostitution-related offenses, according to the Manhattan case.
- He has been held since his September 2024 arrest in New York on alleged sexual offenses, authorities said.
- Prosecutors have accused him of abusing, threatening, and coercing women over years to satisfy his sexual demands.
- His attorneys have filed an appeal as the clemency request draws comparisons to recent presidential pardons for businessmen convicted of financial crimes.