Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip-hop mogul convicted on interstate prostitution charges, begged a federal judge for mercy during a dramatic sentencing hearing Friday, insisting he has “changed for the better.”

“I can’t change the past, but I can change the future,” Combs told Judge Arun Subramanian inside the U.S. District Courthouse in lower Manhattan just after 4 p.m. ET.

Despite the plea for leniency, Combs was sentenced to over 4 years of what the judge called “hard time” in prison.

Before getting the 50 month sentence, Combs apologized to two former girlfriends who accused him of physical and sexual abuse: Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, the R&B singer who dated him off-and-on for a decade, and a woman identified in court under the pseudonym “Jane.”

“My actions were disgusting, shameful and

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