R. Kelly's effort to get out of federal jail due to his coronavirus fears was nixed Tuesday on grounds he had demonstrated "no compelling reasons" for a temporary release and he remains a "flight risk."

"While I am sympathetic to the defendant’s understandable anxiety about COVID-19, he has not established compelling reasons warranting his release," ruled U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn.

Kelly's lead attorney, Steve Greenberg, emailed a face-palming emoji symbolizing disappointment in response.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District did not immediately respond to a message. Kelly's prosecutors objected to his being released temporarily.

Kelly is locked up in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago awaiting trials on multiple sex-crime charges in four jurisdictions in three states, including in the Northern District in Illinois and in the Eastern District of New York.

"At present, there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the MCC in Chicago," Donnelly wrote in her decision.

Moreover, she wrote, 53-year-old Kelly is not in the category of people the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared most at risk for contracting the coronavirus. He cited a recent surgery during his time locked up but did not explain how that places him at a higher risk of illness, she wrote.

And Kelly remains a flight risk, she ruled, which is the main reason he's been incarcerated while awaiting his trials.

"The defendant is currently in custody because of the risks that he will flee or attempt to obstruct, threaten or intimidate prospective witnesses. The defendant has not explained how those risks have changed," Donnelly wrote. "Accordingly, the defendant’s motion for a bail hearing and an order granting his temporary release is denied."

Kelly is just one of several celebrity inmates seeking to be released from jail or prison citing coronavirus fears, including Bill Cosby, Michael Avenatti and the rapper YNW Melly.

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So far, only the Brooklyn rapper Tekashi 6ix 9ine, 23, who has asthma, has been released early to home confinement with four months to go on his two-year sentence for a racketeering conviction.

Prisons and jails, both state and federal, are among the places where the contagious coronavirus is spreading fast among inmates and guards, with the number testing positive for the potentially lethal disease rising in the close confines of lockups.

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