Sean "Diddy" Combs is set to be sentenced on October 3 for his conviction on transportation to engage in prostitution charges. Danny Moloshok/Reuters New York —

Family, friends, former employees and business associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs submitted more than 70 letters asking a federal judge for leniency ahead of his sentencing next week.

“I don’t know how much longer I will be around but I would love to be able to see him and his children together again,” Janice Combs, his 84-year-old mother who regularly attended his trial, said in a signed a letter explaining her health struggles to the judge.

Combs is scheduled to be sentenced October 3.

His lawyers have asked Judge Arun Subramanian to sentence the disgraced music mogul to no more than 14 months in prison, including his

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