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Sean 'Diddy' Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison
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Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to just over four years in prison on Friday after being convicted on prostitution-related charges involving his two ex-girlfriends.
The government argued Combs coerced the women into unwanted sexual encounters with drugs and physical violence.
Prosecutors argued Combs sex trafficked women through "freak-offs", or encounters in which he would pay male escorts to have sex with his girlfriends while he watched and filmed.
However, the defence argued that Combs "is not a pimp" and that the prostitution charges on which he was convicted did not apply.
But he rejected the defence's portrayal of his relationships with Ms Ventura and Jane as intimate and consensual.