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Kalaroga Shark Media. This is Reid Carter with breaking news.
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We interrupt our Oj simpson thirtieth anniversary coverage because Sean
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Diddy Comb's was just sentenced to federal prison fifty months,
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just over four years, for two counts of transportation to
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engage in prostitution. The man who ran the Bad Boy
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Empire will be a federal inmate until twenty twenty eight.
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Judge Aaron's Subramanian just handed down the sentence in Manhattan
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Federal Court. Did he stood there in his button down
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shirt they let him wear civilian clothes instead of prison garb,
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and heard his fate, his children, watching his empire crumbling,
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his freedom gone. This is Celebrity Trials breaking news. Let
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me paint you the scene from Manhattan Federal Court this morning. SHAWNK. Holmes,
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fifty five years old, enters in civilian clothes, a small victory.
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His lawyers fought for one button down shirt, one pair
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of pants, one sweater dress, shoes without laces. The judge
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was very specific about what he could wear even facing prison.
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Image matters to Ditty. His children are in the gallery,
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Quincy Chance, Jesse, Delilah watching their father face justice for
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crimes they probably can't comprehend. The same man who gave
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them everything money could buy is about to lose everything
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money can't. Diddy addresses the court. His voice breaks. My
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actions were disgusting, shameful, and sick. I was sick, sick
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from the drugs. I was out of control. I needed
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help and I didn't get the help. And I cannot
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make no excuse because my mother taught me. His mother,
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Janis Combs, eighty four years old, whose house he tried
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to use as bail collateral. Now hearing her son admit
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to being a monster, he continues the scene in images
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of me assaulting Cassie play over and over in my
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head daily. I literally lost my mind. I was dead
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wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved.
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I'm sorry for that and always will be. That hotel video,
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the twenty sixteen footage of him beating Cassie Ventura in
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a hotel hallway, dragging her, the video that destroyed his denials,
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the video that proved everything his victims said was true.
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The prosecutor, Christy Slavic, isn't buying the remorse. The defendant
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very clearly knew what he was doing was wrong and illegal,
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and he did it anyway for fifteen years. He is
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a master manipulator of his own image. That image is
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incomplete and misleading. Fifteen years, that's how long, the government
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says did he ran his criminal enterprise, forcing women into
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freak offs marathon sex sessions with male prostitutes while he
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watched and recorded, using the recordings as blackmail, building an
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empire on exploitation. The defense tried everything. Mark Agnifilo, his
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lead attorney, argued Diddy had already been punished enough. He
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was treated in a stern, punishing fashion, and the world
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knows that this is probably one of the greatest general
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deterrence cases because everyone knows what happened to Sean Combs.
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Everyone knows that's not punishment, that's exposure. There's a difference
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between being caught and being consequences. Judge Supermanian wasn't having it.
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He looked directly at Combs. You brutally assaulted Jane. You
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abuse the women you claim to love physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
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We read about it in text messages and emails. We
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saw it in the images of gashes, bruises, broken doors,
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and we saw the video of your savage beating of
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mis Ventura, savage beating. That's a federal judge calling Diddy savage.
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Not the streets, not the media, the law, the judge continues.
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What strikes me about your claim that you are remorseful
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is that you assaulted Jane in June twenty twenty four,
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even after authorities executed search warrants, even after the hotel
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video was released, even after you gave an apology on Instagram.
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Think about that, after being raided by the FEDS after
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his assault video went viral, after publicly apologizing, he was
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still assaulting women. That's not addiction, that's who you are.
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Then comes the sentence, fifty months. The prosecution wanted one
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hundred and thirty five months over eleven years. The defense
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wanted fourteen months, essentially time served. The judge split it,
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but not down the middle. Fifty months is a message
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you're going to prison, but not forever. You'll have time
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to think, but also time to possibly redeem yourself with
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credit for the thirteen months he's already he served. Since
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his arrest in September twenty twenty four, Diddy has thirty
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seven more months three years and change. He'll be fifty
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eight when he gets out, still rich, still famous, but
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forever marked as the mogul who went to federal prison
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for prostitution. We'll be right back with what this means
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for Diddy's empire and the women who brought him down.
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Let's talk about what fifty months really means for Sean Combs. First,
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he dodged a bullet. The jury acquitted him of sex
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trafficking and racketeering charges in July. Those carried potential life sentences.
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He was convicted on the lesser charges, two counts of
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transportation for prostitution maximum twenty years. He got four. His
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life lawyers are already planning appeals. They've mentioned reaching out
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to the Trump administration about a potential pardon. Yes, they're
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hoping Donald Trump, of all people, will pardon Diddy. Good
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luck with that. Trump's got his own legal problems, and
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pardoning a convicted pimp is an exactly on brand even
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for him. But here's what did He said in his
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letter to the judge that tells you everything. Over the
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past year, there have been so many times that I
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wanted to give up. There have been some days I
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thought I would be better off dead. The old me
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died in jail, and a new version of me was
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reborn better off dead. This man who had everything money, fame, power, respect,
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thought he'd be better off dead when he finally faced consequences.
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That's not redemption, that's self pity. He's been teaching business
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classes at MDC Brooklyn. Inmates wrote letters supporting him. His
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defense presented this as rehabilitation. The prosecution called it image management.
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A man who manipulated his image for decades is still
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doing it from a federal detention center. His children will
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visit him in federal prison for the next three years.
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His empire will continue crumbling. Bad boy records will become
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a cautionary tale about power and abuse. His legacy went
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from hip hop mogul to convicted criminal. Cassie Ventura didn't
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speak at sentencing, but her presence was felt. The victim
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who started it all with her lawsuit that opened the floodgates.
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The video of him beating her was played in court again.
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Judge Subramanian quoted her testimony about being controlled and coerced
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into freak offs against her will. The woman known as
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Jane testified about being assaulted as recently as June twenty
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twenty four. Another woman Mia provided victim impact statements. The
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defense called lies. These women risked everything to testify. They
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got fifty months of justice. Not enough, but something. Here's
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my take, Diddy got lucky in the era of me
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too faith seeing federal sex trafficking charges with video evidence
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of beating women. He could have gotten decades, should have
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gotten decades. Fifty months is a gift. He'll serve it
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at a federal facility, probably medium security, given his celebrity status,
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three hots and a cot, better healthcare than most Americans
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conjugal visits. Eventually, it's punishment, but it's not suffering. Meanwhile,
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his victims live with trauma forever. Cassie with the memories
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of being beaten, Jane with the assault from just last year.
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All the women who were trafficked, coerced, recorded and blackmailed.
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They don't get to serve their time and walk free.
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They carry it forever. Sean Combs will be out before
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the twenty twenty eight Olympics. He'll be fifty eight, still wealthy,
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probably planning a comeback. There'll be a documentary, a book,
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maybe an album called Redemption or some nonsense. America loves
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a comeback story, even for monsters. Today, October third, twenty
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twenty five. Shaan ditty Comb's is federal inmate number whatever.
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He'll trade his designer clothes for prison khakis, his mansion
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for a cell, his empire for thirty seven more months
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of contemplating how he got here. The answer is simple.
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He thought money made him untouchable, Fame made him invincible,
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power made him god. He was wrong on all counts.
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Even bad boys go to prison, even moguls face justice.
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Even Didty has to pay fifty months one thousand, five
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hundred twenty days thirty six thousan four hundred eighty hours,
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not nearly enough for what he did, but more than
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he ever thought he'd serve. Sometimes, that's what passes for
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justice in America. That's our breaking news. Shawn ditty Combe's
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sentenced to fifty months in federal prison for transportation to
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engage in prostitution. With time served, he's got thirty seven
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months left. We'll return to our regular O. J. Simpson
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Anniversary coverage this weekend with bonus episodes on the aftermath
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of that trial. Monday, we're back to daily coverage with
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full analysis of the ditty sentencing and whatever fresh murders America.
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Produces over the weekend. I'm read Carter. Today marks exactly
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thirty years since OJ Simpson was acquitted of double murder.
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Today also marks the day Sean Combs was held accountable
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for his crimes. Two different eras, two different outcomes, both
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proof that celebrity justice is still justice delayed, justice denied, or,
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in Ditty's case, justice discounted. The bad boy era is
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officially over. The federal inmate era begins. Now. This has
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been celebrity trials breaking news.