Diddy’s kids, mom, and pals come out in force to plead for leniency: ‘Please let my father out of jail!’

• More than 60 family members, friends, and ex-colleagues wrote letters of support for Sean Combs.
• The letters are part of a 300-page plea for leniency from Combs to his Manhattan judge.
• Combs is due to be sentenced on October 3 for two felony prostitution counts.

More than 60 family members, friends, and former colleagues wrote letters of support for Sean “Diddy” Combs, each asking his Manhattan judge to show leniency next month when the rap entrepreneur is sentenced on two prostitution-related convictions.

“I’m asking you to please let my father out of jail!” wrote Christian Combs, his son with the late model Kim Porter. “He does not deserve to be there, and I know this from the bottom of my heart!”

Combs’ six adult children submitted letters.

Teen twins Jessie and D’Lila — always identically dressed in attendance at their father’s Manhattan trial — shared a single letter, telling US District Judge Arun Subramanian, “We are proud to be his daughters.”

Combs’ mom, Janice, and sister also sent letters ahead of the October 3 sentencing date. So did Combs’ ex, rapper Yung Miami, and dozens of producers and artists who have worked with him over the decades.

Here is what some of them told the judge.

Mom Janice Combs, 84, hoped to spend her final years with her only son.

“Please have mercy on my son,” mom Janice Combs, 84, told the judge, calling the year since his arrest “excruciatingly difficult and painful for me and his children.”

Her son was two when his father died, and nine when her brother died of a drug overdose. He pursued music despite the heartbreak of early rejections. “He kept going, never giving up,” she wrote.

“I have had two brain surgeries and monthly follow-ups,” she wrote, describing her failing health in recent years. “My doctor informed me that the diabetes has affected my heart, which may result in a stroke.

“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.”

Sister Keisha Combs called her own heart “heavy but hopeful.”

Keisha Combs, Combs’ sister, wrote that she doesn’t excuse “his past transgressions,” but pointed to her uncle’s work ethic and support of her family. She was adopted by Janice Combs after her father’s fatal OD, and shared Combs’ childhood home in Harlem and Mount Vernon, New York.

“He worked as a newspaper boy, gas station attendant, and in retail to help ease our family’s financial burdens,” she wrote, calling him “the emotional anchor of our family.”

“His pep talks are legendary,” she wrote, touting his love of god and family, his quiet but generous charitable works, and his success at the studio he founded, Bad Boy Records.

“His struggles with addiction clouded his judgment and led him away from his true path: a champion in uplifting our black and brown children and communities, reaffirming to them they can be educated and through hard work be successful,” she wrote.

Twins D’Lila and Jessie said “our worlds shattered” when Combs was arrested.

Combs “stepped up” when Kim Porter, their mother, died in November 2018, wrote twin daughters D’Lila and Jessie Combs — and then their worlds “shattered” when he was arrested.

“This world can be a very evil place and when people try and tear you down sometimes you need a mom or dad to go to for love and support, which we don’t have,” they wrote.

“We know who our father truly is,” they wrote, calling him “a caring, loving, generous, passionate, and dedicated man” who handed out cash in poor neighborhoods and took them to volunteer at a shelter on Thanksgiving.

They added, “Words can’t explain how much we miss him.”

Firstborn child Justin Combs called his father “the anchor of our family.”

Justin Combs — Sean Combs’ first child, with stylist and fashion designer Misa Hylton — told the judge that his father is “so vital to our family’s survival and healing.”

“Since his absence, life has felt incomplete. Each morning I wake up praying it was just a nightmare,” the 31-year-old wrote the judge, calling his dad “the anchor of our family.”

Justin Combs said that his music mogul father isn’t perfect and has made mistakes. “But I refuse to let those mistakes erase the truth of who he is: a loving, present father who has instilled in me and my siblings the importance of respect, of honoring women, and of standing tall in the face of adversity,” he wrote.

Eldest daughter Chance Combs, 19, called her father “our foundation.”

Chance Combs, born to Sean Combs and entrepreneur Sarah Chapman in 2006, asked the judge to return her father home next month, writing that he’s “our foundation.”

“This situation has been really hard on all of us. It doesn’t feel right at home without him here. We miss him every day, and I know how much he wants to be with us and face this situation responsibly,” Chance Combs wrote.

The 19-year-old continued, “Some of my siblings do not have their mother and are now missing a father figure in their lives. We miss him deeply and need his presence, especially now.”

Christian ‘King’ Combs, Combs’ first child with Kim Porter, decried “a year of lies.”

Christian “King” Combs pleaded with Subramanian to release his father from jail. “He does not deserve to be there and I know this from the bottom of my heart !!” he wrote.

“We have been through a year of lies and discrimination and dehumanization and loneliness and separation and extreme stress on the family,” the 27-year-old, Combs’ first child with the late model Porter, wrote.

“Me and my sisters and brother don’t have a mom,” he wrote. “With my dad still in jail it feels like I have no one at all. And it’s really a scary feeling. That I can’t take.”

He added, “Please please don’t make this feeling a reality. I would not be able to handle that at all. Please God please judge ! Please let my father out of jail !!”

Quincy Brown, Combs’ stepson, said, “My Pops isn’t a perfect man.”

Quincy Brown, Combs’ stepson, called the rapper “Pops” throughout his letter to the judge.

“My Pops isn’t a perfect man, but he is a dedicated father with a heart that we’re lucky to know,” wrote the 34-year-old son of Porter and recording artist Al B. Sure!.

“He loves his children and would do anything for us. We are the ones that can help him heal and grow best,” Brown wrote. “We’re the ones that can help him learn from his mistakes, and we’re the ones that can help him face whatever struggles he may encounter in his personal life.”

Yung Miami, Combs’ rapper ex-girlfriend, called him “a man of God.”

The rapper Yung Miami implored Subramanian to set Combs free, saying in her letter that her ex-boyfriend is a “good man.”

“In my personal experience, Sean is not a danger or a threat to the community. He is a man of God, someone who uplifts, supports, and inspires those around him to be better mentally, physically and spiritually,” wrote Yung Miami, whose letter was submitted under her given name, Caresha Brownlee.

“But more than anything,” she wrote, “he’s a father and his kids are the ones who look up to him the most. They need him. His presence, love, and guidance matter deeply in their lives.”

Miami was mentioned a half-dozen times during Combs’ trial. Sex-trafficking accuser “Jane” testified under a pseudonym that she was jealous of the gifts Combs lavished on the rapper, including a yacht vacation and a Maybach truck.

Dallas Austin, music producer, called Combs “like a brother to me.”

Grammy-winning music producer Dallas Austin wrote that he’s hoping for a lenient sentence so that his friend, whom he’s known since the 1990s, can “heal, pray, and seek counseling as needed.”

“As I have become to know Sean over the years, he has become like a brother to me. I have always seen him as a man of unwavering dedication to his loved ones, his family, especially his Mom and Children,” Austin said.

He called Combs “a devoted father whose family always comes first.”

Austin’s producing credits include TLC, Boyz II Men, Lionel Ritchie, and Madonna.

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