Judge Schedules Diddy's Sentencing After Denying Him Bail

Sean “Diddy” Combs is currently scheduled to be sentenced in October.

The Bad Boy Records founder, long considered a kingmaker who built an entertainment career into an expansive business empire, awaits sentencing having been convicted of transportation to engage in prostitution, though he is not facing the potential life sentence he could’ve faced had he been convicted of more serious charges.

The music mogul will remain in jail until his sentencing after Judge Arun Subramanian denied him bail. Combs will get credit for time served. The judge cited Combs’ history of violence, telling the defense during the bail hearing, “You full-throatedly in your closing argument told the jury that there was violence here.”

Subramanian slated the sentencing hearing for Oct. 3 at 10 a.m. By that time, Combs will have been behind bars for more than a year after his arrest in September 2024.

Prosecutors had charged Combs with sex trafficking, accusing him of forcing or coercing women, including his exes Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a woman who testified under the name “Jane,” into participating in elaborate sex performances with male sex workers, known as “Freak Offs” and “Hotel Nights.”

Over the course of the trial, which began in May, prosecutors called 34 witnesses over the course of 29 days of testimony.

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Ventura’s testimony, which occurred while she was eight and a half months pregnant, lasted several days and detailed allegations of abuse and detailed descriptions of “Freak Offs.”

Though Combs’ attorneys did not call any witnesses and the music mogul himself did not testify, the defense sought to undermine the testimony of witnesses, particularly that of his former partners in an attempt to portray the sexual encounters as consensual.

Combs’ legal woes and shocking fall from grace began when Ventura filed a lawsuit in November 2023, accusing him of sexual misconduct. It was settled a day later. Since then, he has been sued by dozens of other accusers.