The hip-hop world over the scene “Didi” Combes Life of Luxury disappeared with its criminal punishment.
He now faces a serious possibility of more years behind bars as his lawyers plan to appeal.
Carefully cultivated reputation as a sociable celebrity entrepreneur, A-List Party Host and Reality TV star crashed on Friday. Grammy-ensemble artists and music executives were sentenced to four years and two months in jail for transporting people in state lines for sexual encounters.
It was a publicly counter -protest for the 55 -year -old music star, who argued for horrific as his lawyers and played a crying video, depicting his family life, career and philanthropy.
US District Judge Arun Subramanian also imposed a fine of $ 500,000 to Comombs, given maximum permission.
Comombs were convicted in July for attaching their girlfriends and male sex workers to fly across the country in many years and in many places to engage in sexual encounters filled with drugs.
In a federal court hearing about two months, Manhattan Women were testified to those who said that Combes beat, threatened, sexually assaulted and blackmailed them.
He was acquitted from allegations of sex trafficking and racketering, which could put him behind bars for life.
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How much time will be served combs
Comombs has already served a year in jail, which means that he can get out in about three years.
Prosecutors sought a sentence of more than 11 years. Comombs’ lawyers wanted him to be freed immediately and said that the time behind bars had already been forced to repent and restraint.
Comombs lawyers said that they would appeal.
There is no parole opportunity in the federal system.
Prosecutor Christie Slavik said that Combes would be an excuse for years of violence except for the time of Gambhir Jail.
The leading witnesses against Combes urged the judge to reject the generosity for the hip-hop Mogul, saying that if he was freed, he was afraid of his safety.
Where combs are time
Comombs was sent Brooklyn After a federal lockup a year ago, his lawyers unsuccessfully struggled to keep him out of jail after arrest.
The lockup is mainly used for detention after arrests for people waiting for testing in federal courts in Manhattan or Brooklyn. Other prisoners are to serve small sentences after punishment.
Since opening in the 1990s, this facility has been plagued by problems. In recent years, its conditions are so harsh that some judges have refused to send people there.
Comombs lawyers were denied a request to wait for a test under the arrest of the house in his mansion on an island. Miami Beach, Florida,
For the remaining of their sentence, the Comombs’ house has a federal lockup for men.
It is a low-protection federal corrective institution with a nearby minimum security satellite camp at Miami. According to its website, the prisoner has 1,000 in the population and 174 in the camp and 826 in the corrective institute.
Federal law
Comombs was sentenced to violate the Federal Mann Act, with an anti -prostitution law with a century old history. The Honor Act makes it illegal to transport someone in state lines for the purpose of prostitution or other illegal sex acts.
The law was amended in the 1980s and today it is used mainly to prosecute people accused of taking young children in state lines for interstate prostitution crimes or sexual purposes.
Defense lawyer Jason Driskl on Friday argued that the law was wrong.
“Didi’s” long dynasty
Comombs’ prestigious freefall began when his pre -prolonged girlfriend and R&B singer, Criminal Trial Witness, accused the years of sexual and physical abuse in 2023. He settled for $ 20 million, but the trial fixed the storm of similar allegations as other women and men.
Associated press usually does not name those who say that they have been sexually abused until they come forward publicly.
The previous year’s revelation of the federal sex trafficking investigation on the day of a Bicostal raids of Comombs houses took the allegations to another level of seriousness and public knowledge.
How the case is played in popular culture
Fedes seized 1,000 bottles of baby oil and other lubricants as part of the raid, which immediately entered the popular culture.
The case replaced Comombs in a punchline as a villain. Talk shows, “Saturday Night Live” and social media posters gave it milk for jokes about “freak-offs” and had a baby oil content to them for sex marathon.
Fellow celebrities were called for previous Didi associations – although no other was implicated in criminal charges.