NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs ‘ sentencing hearing opened Friday with prosecutors pushing for a long prison term while his children tearfully asked the judge for mercy in a sordid criminal case involving the hip-hop mogul’s girlfriends and male sex workers.

FILE – Sean “Diddy” Combs sits courtside in the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Knicks, March 12, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Prosecutors want an 11-year sentence for Combs, 55, who was convicted in July of flying people across state lines for drug-fueled marathon sexual encounters. Jurors acquitted him of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges that could have carried a life sentence.

In a final word before sentencing, Sean “Diddy” Combs ca

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