17 June 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nR. Kelly was rushed to hospital after he suffered a near-fatal overdose in prison.<\/p>\n
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R. Kelly’s lawyer claims the overdose was caused by prison staff<\/p>\n
According to a new filing by his attorney, Beau Brindley, the 58-year-old singer – who is serving 30 years in a North Carolina prison for sex trafficking and racketeering – was placed in isolation on June 10 with his anxiety medication.<\/p>\n
After being given more medication by prison staff, he lost consciousness three days later and was taken to Duke University Hospital on June 13.<\/p>\n
After two days under observation, he was taken back to his cell.<\/p>\n
The attorney shockingly claims that officers intentionally “gave him an amount of medicine that could have killed him.”<\/p>\n
\nHe said in the documents: “This was no mistake. It was a dose that jeopardised his life and nearly ended it.”<\/p>\n
\nBrindley subsequently filed an emergency motion for Kelly’s early release from prison.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s a third attempt to get his client out from behind bars.<\/p>\n
\nKelly is already seeking clemency from US President Donald Trump as he fears for his life in federal prison.<\/p>\n
\nThe shamed rapper’s attorney filed an emergency motion alleging three officials from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) plotted to murder him while incarcerated.<\/p>\n
\nBrindley told People: “We believe that President Trump is the only person with the courage to help us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nKelly\u2019s legal team hopes a pardon or commutation might be granted by Trump.<\/p>\n
\nBrindley added: \u201cImmediately after our motion became public, Robert was thrown into solitary confinement.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe cannot make phone calls to his family. He has no access to commissary. He has spiders crawling over him while he tries to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nKelly is reportedly afraid to eat prison food over fears it might be poisoned, according to his lawyer.<\/p>\n
\nThe fallen performer, who was a longtime resident of Trump Towers in Chicago, does not have a personal relationship with the president but his legal team said discussions intensified with people close to Trump since the motion was filed.<\/p>\n
\nThe emergency motion included a declaration from inmate Mikeal Glenn Stine, who alleged he was asked to kill Kelly by three high-ranking BOP officials.<\/p>\n
\nStine, who claimed membership in the Aryan Brotherhood and said he was once a commissioner with the group, stated prison officials arranged his transfer to the Federal Correctional Institution Butner in North Carolina \u2013 where Kelly is also held \u2013 and placed him in Kelly\u2019s unit.<\/p>\n
\nIn return for carrying out or arranging the murder, Stine alleged he was promised an escape from custody and the chance to live as a \u201cfree man\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nStine also claimed he has terminal cancer and later told Kelly about the plot, stating he no longer intended to go through with it.<\/p>\n
\nLast month, Trump said he would consider pardoning Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs, who faces similar federal charges.<\/p>\n
\nTrump said: \u201cIf I think someone was mistreated it wouldn\u2019t matter whether they like me or don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBrindley added about Kelly\u2019s situation: \u201cHe is not safe in federal custody. And to keep him in prison while he is under threat like this is cruel and unusual punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n
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