1 of 11 | Hip hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to 50 months in prison by a federal judge Friday afternoon on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Friday sentenced Sean "Diddy" Combs to 50 months in prison on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution after the rapper, record producer and entrepreneur apologized for his actions.
U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan, N.Y., issued his sentence, which he described as "hard time" away from his family, after Combs, 55, was convicted of the two prostitution charges on July 2 by a jury that also acquitted him of more serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
Subramanian also imposed a $500,000 fine on Combs, which is the maximum he could order. Comb has an estimated $400 million net worth.
"There is a light at the end of the tunnel," the judge said. "These letters, all those letters that I saw, show that you have a universe of people who love you. Let them lift you up now, just like you've lifted them up for so many years."
