Diddy is set to face sentencing on Friday, Oct. 3, following a split verdict in his trafficking and racketeering trial earlier this year. In the lead-up, another round of support letters has surfaced, including one from Virginia Huynh—identified in the case as “Victim 3.”
In her Sept. 30 letter to Judge Arun Subramanian, Huynh urged for leniency, asking the court to consider “releasing [Diddy] back to his family.” This comes despite prosecutors pushing for more than 11 years in prison after Diddy’s July conviction on prostitution-related charges. The Bad Boy mogul was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering.
“No one asked me or told me to write this letter but I felt my voice should be heard as I was identified as Victim 3 in this case,” Huynh wrote. “I cooperated fully with prosecutors. I met with them three times, answered their questions, and gave them all the information and evidence I had… During those meetings, I felt pressured to feel like a victim. I told them I was not but they insisted that I was, even when I expressed my truth otherwise.”
Huynh stressed that she was “not trafficked” and said she was “fully prepared to testify” at trial, making clear she would have given the same defense of Diddy from the witness stand.
Additional support letters came from a close friend of Diddy’s son Justin, a former Bad Boy Entertainment employee, a mother of an incarcerated man who said Diddy positively influenced her son, a fellow inmate, a celebrity hair stylist, and more.
Earlier in the week, however, letters from Cassie and her parents painted a starkly different picture. Cassie urged the judge to weigh the “many lives that Sean Combs has upended,” calling him “the same cruel, power-hungry, manipulative man that he is.”
