On or about Friday, September 27, 2025, Mr. Justin Combs, the 31-year-old son of defendant Sean “Diddy” Combs, publicly petitioned for the defendant’s release from federal custody in advance of his sentencing hearing scheduled for October 3, 2025.
Mr. Combs utilized the social media platform Instagram to issue a statement reading “FREE PD ASAP,” accompanied by musical accompaniment from his father’s past collaboration with recording artist Nas, Hate Me Now.
Defendant Sean Combs presently remains incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he has been detained since his arrest in September 2024. The defendant was previously acquitted of racketeering and sex-trafficking charges, which carried mandatory minimum penalties of 15 years and a maximum of life imprisonment. However, the defendant stands convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, predicated upon allegations that he arranged interstate travel of male escorts to engage in sexual performances before him and female companions.
In anticipation of sentencing, counsel for the defendant has filed a submission urging the Court to impose a custodial sentence not exceeding 14 months, to be followed by a period of supervised release subject to conditions of mandatory drug treatment, individual therapy, and group therapy. Defense counsel further argued that the 13 months already served under allegedly “terrible conditions” constitute adequate punishment in light of the applicable sentencing guidelines range of six to twelve months.
In support of leniency, the defendant’s children, with the exception of his youngest minor child, have submitted letters to the Honorable Judge Arun Subramanian, attesting to Mr. Combs’s character as a parent. In his letter, Justin Combs emphasized his father’s emotional and spiritual presence throughout his life, describing the absence occasioned by incarceration as “incomplete” and imploring the Court to view his father not “through headlines, but through the eyes of a son who loves and needs him.”
Mr. Combs pleaded with the Court to restore his father to his family, asserting that such relief would allow the defendant to “be the father his children desperately need” and to continue his purported efforts at rehabilitation.#newsafro_
