Sean 'Diddy' Combs to be sentenced on October 3 on prostitution charges after prosecution, defense reach agreement

Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to be sentenced in his federal criminal case on October 3, 2025, after his lawyers and the prosecution reached an agreement for the sentencing date. The decision comes on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, after probation officials rejected the defense and prosecution’s plan to move the date up by about two weeks.

The hip-hop mogul was convicted of two prostitution related charges. The jurors, however, acquitted him on racketeering and sex trafficking. Combs’ lawyer had been urging Judge Arun Subramanian to sentence him as soon as possible, proposing the October 3 date.

Combs remains jailed after a split verdict. He spoke briefly to his lawyer, Marc Agnifil,o during a virtual hearing on the scheduling issue that lasted all of two minutes. At one point, he asked the lawyer to turn on his camera so they could see each other’s faces.


He faces up to a decade in prison for each of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution for flying people around the country, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, for sexual encounters. A conviction on racketeering conspiracy or sex trafficking could have put him in prison for life.

Before Tuesday’s hearing, Combs’ lawyers and prosecutors filed a joint letter proposing a Sept. 22 sentencing date, subject to the consent of the U.S. Probation Office. A short time later, they filed a second letter stating that all parties including the probation office, were on board with the Oct. 3 date Subramanian originally proposed.

Combs got a standing ovation from fellow inmates when he returned to jail after the verdict last week, Agnifilo said. The Bad Boy Records founder will remain at the federal lockup in Brooklyn, where he's been held since his arrest last September, after Subramanian last week rejected his request for bail.

The judge, citing a now-infamous video of Combs beating a former girlfriend and photographs showing injuries to another ex-girlfriend, made clear that he plans to hold him accountable for the years of violence and bullying behavior that were exposed at his eight-week trial.

Combs’ lawyers want less than the 21 to 27 months in prison that they believe the sentencing guidelines recommend. Prosecutors contend that the guidelines, when properly calculated to include Combs’ crimes and violent history, call for at least four to five years in prison.

Combs’ punishment is Subramanian’s decision alone, and the judge will have wide latitude in determining a sentence. While judges often adhere to the federal judiciary’s formulaic guidelines meant to prevent disparity in sentences for the same crimes, they are not mandatory.

As part of the sentencing process, Combs must give an interview to probation officers for a pre-sentence investigation report that will aid the judge in determining the proper punishment.