Sean “Diddy” Combs has asked a judge for leniency in a four-page letter ahead of his sentencing on prostitution-related charges, vowing, “I will never commit a crime again.”

“I want to apologize and say how sincerely sorry I am for all of the hurt and pain that I have caused others by my conduct,” Combs wrote in the letter that was delivered by his lawyers to Judge Arun Subramanian on the eve of his sentencing hearing and shared by The New York Times . “This has been the hardest two years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself.”

Federal prosecutors are seeking an 11-year prison sentence, citing Combs’ “decades of abuse” and “unchecked violence.” Their filing included a statement from Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, who insisted

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