Sean Diddy Comb’s sentencing date set, but he’ll have to wait months to learn his fate

Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to be sentenced on prostitution charges after lawyers on both sides agreed on the date for the hip-hop mogul’s day of reckoning.

Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in his federal criminal case on October 3 this year, a judge said after probation officials rejected the defence and prosecution’s plan to move the date up by a fortnight.

Combs, 55, who remains imprisoned after a split verdict last week in his federal criminal trial, spoke briefly to his lawyer Marc Agnifilo during a virtual hearing on the scheduling issue.

The fallen music mogul’s lawyers had been urging Judge Arun Subramanian to sentence him as soon as possible after jurors acquitted him last week on the two charges of racketeering and sex trafficking but convicted him on two prostitution-related charges.

Defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo speaks outside Manhattan federal court. His client Sean "Diddy" Combs has had his sentencing date set. Picture: AFP

Combs faces up to a decade in prison for each of those two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution involving his girlfriends and sex workers, for so-called “freak offs” or “hotel nights.”

A conviction on racketeering conspiracy or sex trafficking could have put him in prison for life.

A sentencing on the two other charges carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. But legal experts estimate the entrepreneur will spend less time than that behind bars.

Prior to Tuesday’s hearing, Combs’ lawyers and prosecutors filed a joint letter proposing a September 22 sentencing date, subject to the consent of the U.S. Probation Office.

They subsequently filed a second letter stating that all parties accepted the October 3 date Judge Subramanian originally proposed.

DIDDY GOT STANDING OVATION FROM INMATES

Sean “Diddy” Combs got a standing ovation from fellow inmates when the music mogul returned to jail after winning acquittals on potential life-in-prison charges, providing what his lawyer says might have been the best thing he could do for black incarcerated men in America.

“They all said: ‘We never get to see anyone who beats the government,’” lawyer Marc Agnifilo said in a weekend interview days after a jury acquitted Combs of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges.

Cassie Ventura, left, and Sean "Diddy" Combs. Picture: Invision/AP

Combs remains jailed after his Wednesday conviction on prostitution-related charges and could still face several years in prison at an upcoming sentencing after being credited for 10 months already served.

After federal agents raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami in March 2024, the lawyer said he told Combs to expect arrest on sex trafficking charges.

“I said: ‘Maybe it’s your fate in life to be the guy who wins,’” he recalled during a telephone interview briefly interrupted by a jailhouse call from Combs.

“They need to see that someone can win. I think he took that to heart.”

COMBS AND DIDDY TO RECORD TOGETHER?

It comes amid reports it’s only a matter of time before disgraced rapper Kanye West and Combs release a full song — potentially even an album.

There’s been mass media interest in the Combs case. Marc Agnifilo, lawyer for the rapper was swamped by media outside the Manhattan federal court. Picture: AP

According to a source close to Diddy, he will likely fully collaborate with the equally-cancelled West, who now goes by Ye.

“Music was a salvation for him, Diddy, like it was for Ye. Diddy’s looking to make amends. I think a song would be the best way to communicate a change,” one source who regularly works with Kanye told Page Six.

“Be on the lookout for the song,” the source added.

“Ye is brave enough to touch a hot (rod like) Diddy right now. I don’t think any other artists would,” the source added.

In fact, their collaboration has already started.

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, leaves federal court during the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York. Picture: AP

In March, West released a snippet of a new track he was working on which featured Combs recorded in jail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he was then being held while awaiting his trial on sex trafficking charges. He had been holed up there since his September 2024 arrest.

A source close to Combs at the time told The New York Post he was not aware the call was being recorded on video and Combs thought West was simply “checking in” on his kids.

In the call, which could be heard on West’s track, Bad Boy Records founder Diddy urged him to be careful of people trying to “end” them both.

Kanye West and P. Diddy perform onstage during Screamfest '07 at Madison Square Garden on August 22, 2007 in New York City. Picture: Getty

“You be careful out there ’cause they definitely trying to end us,” Combs told West.

“They can’t do it and they ain’t gonna do it. I’m going to beat this s**t and get next to you,” Combs added, referring, to his then-upcoming federal trial over sex trafficking and racketeering charges, which could have seen him sent to prison for life.

Despite Combs’ comments, West has largely self-sabotaged his career with a series of anti-Semitic rants, selling Nazi Swastika T-shirts and declaring he was a Nazi and admired Hitler.

The pair share a messy past with an ongoing feud between their families, but West has supported Combs during his trail where he also went to the court.

West and Combs’ spokespeople did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.

This story was originally published in The New York Post

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