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Any port in a storm! Rapper YNW Melly has filed for restricted release from custody after testing positive for coronavirus while in Broward County Jail, his Twitter announced Thursday night. Melly, née Jamell Demons, was arrested last February on two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the October 2018 killings of two other up-and-coming …

Essential coronavirus items: milk, bread, sanitizing wipes … and scented candles? Retail giant Bath & Body Works, known for its perfumed lotions and body washes, has a grand plan to reopen its doors during the coronavirus outbreak by proving itself an “essential” business, The Post has learned. The company, owned by Victoria’s Secret parent L …

For years, we in New York have been trained to disdain. Whenever the name Robert Kraft is mentioned, the response of any Jets or Giants fan (well, mostly Jets fans) generally is rooted in derision. Kraft is the owner of the big, bad, perennial-winner Patriots, who are despised in these parts for the six Lombardi …

An NYC fashion influencer who was deluged with flak for fleeing to the Hamptons after testing positive for the coronavirus has issued a tearful apology — as her husband fights back by firing snarky comments at her critics. Arielle Charnas — who founded the lifestyle blog Something Navy and has 1.3 million followers on Instagram — …

“Tiger King” star Joe Exotic, 57, has been transferred from coronavirus isolation to a prison medical center. Inmate records show Thursday that Joseph “Exotic” Maldonado-Passage, is currently located at the Federal Bureau of Prisons-operated Federal Medical Center Forth Worth in Texas. Exotic’s fourth husband, 24-year-old bartender Dillon Passage, told Andy Cohen that Exotic had previously …

Grand Central Terminal’s tenants are staging a rent strike. Some 20 retailers located in the posh Manhattan train station fired off coordinated e-mails to their Metropolitan Transportation Authority landlord on Thursday, informing the transportation agency that they can’t pay their April rent. The uprising — in the form of boilerplate e-mails — is being backed …

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday ordered General Electric and five other companies to begin manufacturing ventilators amid the worsening coronavirus outbreak, invoking the Defense Production Act for the second time. In a White House memo, Trump announced he had authorized General Electric, Hill-Rom Holdings, Medtronic, ResMed, Philips and Vyaire to begin manufacturing the desperately …

Fountains of Wayne frontman Adam Schlesinger’s loved ones had been “optimistic” that he was on the mend before he succumbed Wednesday to coronavirus complications, according to longtime collaborators. “This came out of the blue,” said J.J. Sedelmaier, an animator who worked with the New Jersey native for over 20 years. The 52-year-old Grammy-winning songwriter had …

A Manhattan federal court judge has ordered rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine released from federal custody and into home confinement amid the coronavirus outbreak in New York, according to court papers unsealed Thursday. The order by Judge Paul Engelmayer said the rapper-turned-snitch should be released “immediately” from the private prison in Queens where he is being held …

Chris Hurn, founder of Fountainhead Commercial Capital, has received 7,400 small business loan requests in the past two weeks, more than his business has handled in its five years of existence. The Lake Mary, Florida-based non-bank lender is just one of thousands of financial institutions across the country preparing to dole out $349 billion in …