'Height of hubris': Prosecutors reveal Diddy already booked for speaking event next week, confident of release from jail

Federal prosecutor Mary Slavik told the court, which is due to announce disgraced music mogul Diddy's sentence today, that Diddy is so certain that he would be released today that he has scheduled speaking engagements for next week. “Even now at sentencing for his conviction for two federal crimes… he doesn’t fully grapple with how his actions got him here,” federal prosecutor Mary Slavik said. “His respect for the law is just lip service.

“He has booked speaking engagements in Miami for next week. That is the height of hubris, your honor.”

Diddy was convicted of two minor counts of paying for prostitution in July and was acquitted on the more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. The prosecution sought an 11-year sentence for Diddy but experts think he would be given a maximum 5-6 years of imprisonment. But Diddy's legal team is hoping for a one-year sentence which he already served and will therefore be immediately released.

Diddy's mother, his children were present at the court as the hearing began.

Diddy's letter taking full responsibility for past wrongs

Diddy wrote a letter to the court ahead of his sentencing in which he took responsibility for all his past wrongs. "I literally lost my mind. I was dead wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved. I'm sorry for that and always will be. My domestic violence will always be a heavy burden that I will have to forever carry. The remorse, the sorrow, the regret, the disappointment, the shame."

“I have had to look in the mirror like never before,” he wrote. “My pain became my teacher. My sadness was my motivator. I have to admit, my downfall was rooted in my selfishness.”

He said the ‘old’ him ‘died in jail’: “And a new version of me was reborn. Prison will change you or kill you—I choose to live.”

“I have failed my children as a father. My father was murdered when I was 3 years old so I know first-hand what it is to not have a father,” he wrote. “More than anything, I just want the opportunity to return home and be the father that they need and deserve.”