P. Diddy’s punishment for punishment: The pictures from the courtroom

On the dock in New York, one of the most powerful men in the music industry was sitting yesterday – reduced to the prisoner in a gray suit, without sunglasses, without entourage. When the judge announces the sentence, Diddy does not take a face. But at that moment, the traction drivers trace it, his face reveals everything.

Court artists describe the moment with fine lines because cameras were prohibited in the hall: a tense forehead, pressed together lips, the view into nothing. Then, when the words “fifty months in prison” fall, Diddy put together slightly. His hands cling to the edge of the table as if he could hold on to it.
“He seemed to tremble briefly,” reports an eyewitness. “As if he wouldn’t believe that it all really happens,” he writes “”.

While the judge read the justification, P. Diddy lowered the look. Leafs, notes, a crumpled handkerchief were next to him.
His lawyer whispered something, but Diddy, who is called Sean Combs in a bourgeois name, did not react. “I changed,” he said a few minutes earlier, in a brittle voice, tears close. “I know what I did. I hate the person I was at the time.”

But the judge remained cool. Also because Diddy had pleaded innocently for the whole process for the whole process and his admission of guilt and the remorse had only occurred on Thursday, one day before the punishment in the form of a letter to the court. His judicial conclusion: “Change takes time and consequences.”

In the court drawings, P. Diddy acts between two roles: the public sinner who asks for grace and a man who is still trying to keep control. The grip to the forehead, the light shake of the head, all gestures that became symbols of a fall.