Sean 'Diddy' Combs sentenced to over four years in prison

Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced in New York City on Friday to over four years in prison for two counts of transportation for the purposes of prostitution.

U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian of the Southern District of New York, a Biden appointee, sentenced the hip-hop mogul to 50 months in prison. Combs has already served 12 months in prison, meaning he will be released in approximately three years.

While federal prosecutors argued that Combs should receive at least 11 years in prison, his lawyers asked for a maximum sentence of 14 months, with credit for time served, ABC News reported. He has already spent 12 months at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which means that a 14-month sentence would have ended in December.

In July, Combs was found not guilty on count one, racketeering conspiracy, which was the heaviest charge he faced. The jury had recessed the day before without coming to a verdict on that charge, but after having reached a verdict on the other charges.

He was found not guilty of count two, the sex trafficking of former girlfriend Casandra Ventura; found guilty of count three, the Mann Act transportation of Ventura; found not guilty of count four, the sex trafficking of former girlfriend "Jane"; and found guilty of count five, the Mann Act transportation of "Jane."

Combs wrote a letter to the judge on Thursday asking for "another chance to be a better father, another chance to be a better son, another chance to be a better leader in my community, and another chance to live a better life."

"First and foremost, I want to apologize and say how sincerely sorry I am for all of the hurt and pain that I have caused others by my conduct," he wrote. "I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs."

Combs said that the "old me died in jail and a new version of me was reborn," promising not to make the same mistakes again. 

The letter also mentioned Casandra "Cassie" Ventura and another woman who testified against him at his trial under the pseudonym "Jane." 

"The scene and images of me assaulting Cassie play over and over in my head daily," he wrote, appearing to reference a 2016 security video that showed him hitting and kicking Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway. "I literally lost my mind. I was dead wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved."

"I thought I was providing for Jane concerning her and her child, but after hearing her testimony, I realized that I hurt her," Combs wrote.