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Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy

It's All About the Sentence

Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy

ABC News

True Crime, Music, News

4.7972 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Diddy’s sentencing hearing featured a highly-produced video from the defense, tearful testimony from his children, and attorneys who gave statements testifying to his character. None of his victims appeared in court. The judge sentenced him to a little more than four years in prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today, Sean Diddy Combs received his sentence, 50 months, a little over four years.

0:43.8

This is Bad Rap, the case against Diddy.

0:49.1

I'm Brian Buckmeyer, an ABC News legal contributor and practicing attorney.

0:52.4

This episode, it's all about the sentence.

1:00.4

We'll break down what happened in court today and what it all means. Sean Diddy Combs returned to a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan today to receive

1:05.1

his sentence.

1:06.5

He walked into the courtroom wearing dark pants and a light-colored sweater over a white button

1:11.7

down. He shook hands with his attorneys, hugged others, and gestured towards his family,

1:17.7

crammed into the second and third rows of the gallery. Combs has waited for more than three

1:23.0

months since his conviction to learn how much time he would have to serve.

1:34.5

Remember, on July 2nd, a jury found Combs guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, but they acquitted him of the more serious charges.

1:38.6

So we do have a split verdict.

1:40.8

Sean Combs has been found not guilty of racketeering conspiracy, not guilty of sex

1:46.1

trafficking Cassandra Ventura. And just now the jury has decided that Sean Combs is not

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