MUSIC MOGUL SEAN “Diddy” Combs is asking a judge to free him on a $50m bond while he awaits sentencing in October.

Combs, 55, faces up to a decade in prison on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution for flying people around the country, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, for sexual encounters.

A jury found him guilty on those two counts but not guilt on more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.

In a court filing today, Combs’s lawyer argued that conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn are dangerous, noting that others convicted of similar prostitution-related offences were typically released before sentencing.

“Sean Combs should not be in jail for this conduct,” Marc Agnifilo said.

A spokesperson for the US attorney’s office in Manhattan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Prosecutors have previously insisted he remains a flight risk.

A conviction on racketeering conspiracy or sex trafficking could have put Combs in prison for life.

When he was acquitted of the more serious charges on 2 July, Agnifilo asked that Combs be released on bond.

But Judge Arun Subramanian denied it, saying Combs at the time had not met the burden of showing by clear and convincing evidence a “lack of danger to any person or the community”.

Combs is the latest celebrity inmate to be locked up at MDC Brooklyn, the only federal jail in New York City, joining a list that includes R Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell and cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.