Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs are expected to tell an appeals court that the judge who oversaw the hip-hop mogul’s sex crimes trial should not have considered evidence that he abused and threatened former girlfriends in sentencing him to more than four years in prison for his conviction on prostitution charges.
Combs, 56, is asking the Manhattan-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn both his conviction and sentence. Combs is serving his sentence at a low-security federal prison in Fort Dix, New Jersey.
His seven-week trial last year in Manhattan federal court centered on drug-fuelled and days-long sexual performances, sometimes called ‘Freak Offs’, between two former girlfriends of Combs and male sex workers. Combs, the founder of Bad Boy Records, was found guilty by a jury on July 2, 2025, on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
But jurors acquitted him on more serious sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
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