NEW YORK — Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs have released a last-minute plea for mercy by way of a video showcasing the disgraced music mogul’s charity work and family life.

The 11-minute highlight reel, an apparent bid to help secure Combs’ quick release from prison, was submitted ahead of his sentencing in New York on Friday.

Edited in a documentary-like style, it intercuts different videos from throughout the musician’s life — chronicling his success and his work with youth engagement programs, giving motivational speeches about his upbringing and his hip hop career — with commentary from his friends and family. It also shows him playing with his children and, at another point, mourning the 2018 death of his partner, Kim Porter.

The montage marks a stark contrast to other clips played over the course of Combs’ trial, including footage of him dragging and beating former girlfriend, R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, in a Los Angeles hotel hallway. Ventura said the assault followed one of their multiday sexual marathons she referred to as “freak-offs.” Others testified to similar abuse, including one of Ventura’s friends, who claimed Combs dangled her from a 17th-floor balcony.

Combs’ former assistant took the stand to say she was raped, while a woman who testified under the pseudonym Jane said she was similarly subjected to physical and sexual violence.

Combs is staring down a potential 20-year prison sentence after a jury convicted him in July on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years per count. He was also acquitted at the time of the more serious racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.

Prosecutors have requested he serve at least 11 years prison while the defense has asked for a term of no more than 14 months behind bars, arguing he’s “made the most” of his year in lockup. And Combs' eleventh-hour video reel is no doubt an effort to emphasize that.

It is also his most recent effort to appeal to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, who twice rejected bail for the rapper in the year he has been jailed at a federal detention center in Brooklyn. He was taken into custody on Sept. 16. at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan following a monthslong federal investigation, which also saw agents raid his homes in Miami and Los Angeles.

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