'I love you, I'm sorry': The actions Sean 'Diddy' Combs undertook the moment he discovered his sentence.

Courtroom sketch

Three months ago, Sean "Diddy" Combs dropped to the ground in a New York court after a tribunal found him not guilty of allegations of trafficking and organized crime.

"I'm going back home," he stated, turning around to face his relatives, who had supported him every day the court case.

During Friday's session, a more reserved figure of the hip-hop mogul sat unmoved and stationary in his chair, as the magistrate ruled against him to over four years in detention.

After Judge Arun Subramanian finished reading his judgment, the entertainer peered over his shoulder at his relatives and appeared to mouth the phrase: "I love you, I'm sorry."

This marked a solemn instant to signify the conclusion of a chaotic eight-week trial that permanently changed the popular perception of Combs - previously among the globe's most renowned hip-hop artists.

Trial Exhibits

The tribunal observed disturbing recordings of Combs' so-called "freak offs" - intimate gatherings he recorded including paid male companions and his ex Cassandra Ventura and "Jane", an unnamed accuser.

Furthermore they witnessed a video, that had previously gone viral, of him assaulting Ventura in a accommodation facility passageway.

Judicial Findings

During July, a jury of twelve citizens found the 55-year-old not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering charges - which carried the potential of life in prison - but found him guilty of arranging transport for prostitution purposes.

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Family members arriving for sentencing

This past Friday, the magistrate stated to a dejected Combs that his crimes and abuse of his ex-girlfriends justified 50 months in prison.

During his address to the court that Combs had used his fame and power to "subjugate" his victims, the industry magnate failed to raise his eyes, staying impassive for the magistrate's twenty-minute address.

His contingent of more than three dozen loved ones were crowded into the court chamber following him.

Legal Arguments

His attorneys hoped he would be out of prison in a short period, petitioning the judge for a one-year-and-two-month judgment, thirteen of those he had already served.

The prosecution had alleged Combs of running a criminal enterprise to force females into non-consensual and substance-enhanced sexual activities.

Even though he was cleared of those most serious of those charges, prostitution trafficking and racketeering, they had asked for a sentence of in excess of a decade in detention.

Courtroom Proceedings

During the all-day hearing, the tribunal heard extended addresses from numerous lawyers, his offspring, a pastor and a criminal justice reform advocate who informed the court that Combs was a transformed and clean individual since detention.

Furthermore they observed a edited footage from his attorneys featuring him with his sons and daughters as well as the memorial service for his ex-partner Kim Porter, the mother of some of his children who died in 2018.

Accuser Aftermath

Yet the judicial body wasn't presented with from the complainants directly, after one person who planned to speak, Mia, a former assistant of Combs who gave evidence without identification, pulled out after the defence wrote a letter labeling her dishonest.

Subramanian thanked the "strong women" who had the fortitude to emerge with the accusations toward Combs, stating they weren't simply testifying to 12 men and women in the jury box".

Rather than individual accounts on Friday, the magistrate shared numerous accuser statements from testimony, informing Combs: "These were serious offences that permanently damaged two women."

Combs' Address

The defendant personally spoke the tribunal initially since the beginning of his trial.

Exhaling deeply before standing to read his speech, he pleaded with the judge for "mercy".

He perused wearing spectacles from a piece of paper in front of him, seeking to preserve direct gaze with the judge as he told him: "I have nobody to blame but myself."

He began crying as he turned around to face his family and tell his mother: "I let you down as an offspring."

Relative Statements

It was not the first time weeping transpired during the hearing.

Numerous defendant backers cried as six of his seven children came to the lectern to request the magistrate for a lenient judgment, stating they depended on their dad.

The trio of daughters and trio of sons grouped tightly with interlocked limbs as several of them cried while speaking the magistrate.

Judgment Reasoning

The court official expressed during ruling that he had accounted for Combs' relative relationships, but stated he must also consider the harm he had inflicted to his two victims.

The violations were significant, he elaborated, observing they occurred despite a federal investigation and the disclosure of recording showing him beating Ventura in the corridor of lodging establishment.

"A background of beneficial actions cannot erase your past," he stated.

Closing Statements

Yet, he addressed a disheartened Combs, who on two occasions raised his head and exhaled, there was hope following his incarceration period.

"Mr Combs, you and your family, you are going to get through this," he affirmed.

After the magistrate completed his address, Combs provided a swift gesture to his multiple loved ones and associates, before stepping silently through the exit to be transported to a national correctional institution in Brooklyn.