New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- Ahead of his sentencing on prostitution-related counts, Sean 'Diddy' Combs has asked a federal judge in a letter to have mercy on him, saying that he was 'humbled' by the criminal case against him and would "never commit a crime again".

In the letter written on Thursday, the eve of his sentencing, the 55-year-old said that he had no one to blame but himself. His lawyers submitted the letter to Judge Arun Subramanian.

"This has been the hardest two years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself," the letter reads.

Combs was acquitted of charges that he sex trafficked his girlfriends and ran a racketeering conspiracy, after eight weeks of trial this summer. However, he wa...