NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs is making yet another bid at bail as the Harlem-born mogul awaits sentencing his Oct. 3 sentencing on two prostitution-related charges.

Lawyers for the 55-year-old convicted Bad Boy Records founder, who was recently denied presentencing bail, argue that he should be released on $50 million bond and reside at his Miami home ahead of the Oct. 3 sentencing in Manhattan for two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, according to the filing viewed by the Daily News.

Each offense carries a sentence of up to 10 years, for a total of 20 years behind bars, though Diddy is unlikely to serve anywhere near that.

His lawyers state that no one in previous cases similar to Combs‘ has been prosecuted or imprisoned under the Mann Act, and that those convicted in similar cases “were released pending sentencing.”

Combs has been in custody at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest in September — after which he was continually denied bail — which his attorneys also insist “justif[ies] release.”

“There has literally never been a case like this one, where a person and his girlfriend arranged for adult men to have consensual sexual relations with the adult long-term girlfriend as part of a demonstrated ‘swingers’ lifestyle and has been prosecuted and incarcerated under the Mann Act,” said Combs’ legal team, which highlighted the “racism and misogyny” central to the statute’s 115-year-old initiation, when it was known as the White-Slave Traffic Act.

Combs’ lawyers noted that, unlike most Mann Act defendants, he did not profit financially from engaging in transportation for prostitution.

“In fact, he may be the only person currently in a United States jail or being any sort of john, and certainly the only person in jail for hiring adult male escorts for him and his girlfriend, when he did not even have sex with the escort himself,” the motion says.

The lawyers added that Diddy remains behind bars while all other parties involved — including the sex workers, their agency and state witnesses “Jane” and Casandra “Cassie” Ventura — “walk free, as they should.”

They said there’s a history of “limited and restrained” punishments for noncommercial Mann Act offenses, and that even more serious violations than Combs’ incurred “typically less punitive” punishment than what he’s already served.

“The cases which involve defendants similarly situated to Mr. Combs have been released on bond pending sentencing,” the lawyers said.

In addition to dubbing a nearly 11-month detention an “exceptional circumstance,” Combs’ lawyers argue his “safety is constantly at risk” at the notorious MDC, where conditions have been decried by a judge as “unacceptable” and “dreadful.”

The lawyers insist that Combs is not a flight risk and pushed back against concerns he poses a danger. They point to a domestic violence program he enrolled in prior to his arrest: “If released on conditions, Sean Combs will not be violent to anyone. … He will not squander his second chance at life.”

In an order Tuesday afternoon, Manhattan Federal Judge Arun Subramanian gave prosecutors until Thursday to respond to the motion by Combs’ lawyers.

Combs was acquitted this month on the more serious charges of federal sex trafficking and racketeering-related offenses, for which he could have faced life in prison.

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(Daily News writer Molly Crane-Newman contributed.)

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