Sean "Diddy" Combs' "commercial voyeurism" does not qualify as prostitution, his defence lawyer has argued while urging a US judge to set aside a jury's verdict finding the hip-hop mogul guilty on prostitution charges.

Combs, 55, faces up to 20 years in prison if the July 2 conviction stands.

Jurors found he paid male escorts to travel across state lines to have sex with his girlfriends while he filmed and masturbated, but cleared him of more serious counts of sex trafficking and racketeering.

He had pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, which could have landed him in prison for life.

US District Judge Arun Subramanian, who is overseeing the case, did not rule on Combs' motion at Thursday's hearing, but said he would issue a decision "very soon".

At the hearing, defence lawyer Ale

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