Sean “Diddy” Combs will appeal his federal conviction and four-year prison sentence, his attorneys have stated.
The hip-hop mogul, 55, was sentenced Friday to four years and two months in prison and fined $500,000 after being convicted of transporting people across state lines for sex.
He was acquitted of the most serious charges, sex trafficking and racketeering, that could have kept him locked up for life.
Defence attorney Marc Agnifilo said the team plans to file the notice of appeal “in the coming days,” calling both the trial and sentence flawed.
“Both the guidelines calculation and the sentence took account of conduct for which Mr. Combs was acquitted by a jury. We contend this amounts to legal error,” the lawyer said.
Combs has already spent about a year behind bars since his 2024 arrest, meaning he could walk free in roughly three. There’s no parole in the federal system.
The conviction followed a sensational Manhattan trial that exposed years of alleged abuse, manipulation, and violence.
Jurors heard graphic testimony from multiple women who said Combs forced them into degrading “freak-off” sex sessions fueled by drugs and alcohol.
Diddy’s defence attorneys argued that prosecutors misused the century-old Mann Act, which makes it a federal crime to transport someone across state lines for prostitution or other illegal sexual activity, and criminalized what they described as “consensual conduct.”
Combs has been held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since last year, but it’s not yet clear where he’ll serve the rest of his sentence.
A transfer to a low-security prison near his Miami mansion remains possible.
