Sean 'Diddy' Combs sentencing live updates: Combs gets 50 months in prison

Sean Combs entered the courtroom for his sentencing hearing Friday wearing dark pants and a light-colored sweater over a white button-down. He shook hands with some of his attorneys, hugged others and gestured toward his family crammed into the second and third rows of the gallery.

"Good morning judge," Combs said when greeted by Judge Arun Subramanian.

Subramanian said he received "a lot" of materials ahead of time, including the letter from Combs himself, the video the defense intends to play and an evaluation of the 6-week course Combs taught to fellow inmates at MDC-Brooklyn.

There will be no victim impact statements after a former Combs assistant who testified under the pseudonym "Mia" bowed out.

There will be no victim impact statements read during Friday's sentencing after Combs' assistant, who testified under the pseudonym "Mia," bowed out.

"This morning the government learned 'Mia' no longer wishes to address the court here today," prosecutor Christie Slavik said, adding that a "bullying" letter from the defense was part of her reasoning.

"The tone of the defense's letter was inappropriate," Subramanian said. "That should not be done again."

In addition to Combs, two or three of his children and a pastor intend to speak ahead of the imposition of the sentence. Doctors who evaluated Combs are prepared to speak if necessary, defense attorney Brian Steel said.

To keep a pathway to the courthouse clear, court officials are keeping the media penned into specific zones - one on each side of the walkway - with bike rack-style fencing.

Some onlookers are hoisting their cellphones to record images of people walking by. A podium is set up with microphones from various outlets for possible post-sentencing news conferences.

As for security, officers from the U.S. Marshals Service are lined up in front of the courthouse door, including a pair of K9 units.

Outside the courthouse, it's a scene familiar from Combs' trial. Hordes of photographers holding cameras in outstretched hands, taking pictures and video of case-related figures, including some of the hip-hop mogul's children, who poured out of a black transport van about 15 minutes before the sentencing was to begin.

Combs mother, Janice Combs, arrived to the courthouse earlier in the morning.

On the sidewalk across the street, TV crews have lined up in front of a city park, broadcasting live while a jungle gym and basketball courts sit empty.

Sean Combs has asked to play a 15-minute video during Friday's sentencing hearing.

The video shows Combs playing with his children, mourning Kim Porter and giving motivational speeches at fundraisers in New York.

It is a selective compilation of a public figure who has been unceasingly photographed and videotaped at home and in professional settings and is meant to help convince the judge that Combs deserves imminent release.

The judge has seen other video that casts Combs in the reddish hue of a "freak off" or under the fluorescent hallway lights of a Los Angeles hotel punching and kicking Cassie Ventura.

-ABC News' Aaron Katersky