In July, a Manhattan jury convicted Sean “Diddy” Combs on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Ahead of next week’s sentencing, 75 people have submitted character letters to the judge on the music mogul’s behalf, in hopes of lessening his prison time. One of those character letters, which was reviewed by The Cut, was written by former City Girls rapper Yung Miami, who says she dated Combs for three years starting around 2022. Filed Monday, the letter begins with Miami’s assertion that she “cannot speak on or defend anything that may have happened before I met Sean Combs.” However, in the four years has known him, she maintained he was “loving, genuine, supportive, and always encouraging.” “That’s a good man,” she wrote.
Miami, whose real name is Caresha Brownlee, added that, in her experience, Combs is “not a danger or a threat to the community,” as evidenced by his charitable work as well as the “inner work” he has completed, like checking himself into anger management counseling, going to therapy, and committing to “physical healing.” She also cited the time Combs took her to the 2023 Met Gala — one year after they confirmed their relationship on her podcast — where he “made it a priority to open doors for Black people, to make sure we are seen, heard, and valued in spaces where we’ve historically been excluded.” But above all, she concluded, “he’s a father, and his kids are the ones who look up to him the most … They need him.”
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Miami expressed a similar sentiment while addressing Combs’s alleged misconduct in the past. In a 2024 episode of her podcast, Caresha Please, she said she “can’t speak on these allegations because I wasn’t around at the time,” but clarified, “I don’t know that person, and that wasn’t my experience.”
Judge Arun Subramanian, who is overseeing Combs’s sentencing, also reportedly received letters from Combs’s mother, Janice Combs; his sister, Keisha Combs-Dent; several of his children; producer Dallas Austin; and Claudine De Niro, a onetime Bad Boy employee and Robert De Niro’s former daughter-in-law. Combs currently faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, though his team is pushing for 14 months. Because he has already served time, that would allow Combs to walk free almost immediately.
