Hollywood singer R. Kelly was recently hospitalized following what his lawyer claims was an assassination attempt.
According to court filings on Tuesday, Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was taken to Durham, North Carolina's Duke University Hospital on June 13 after prison officials allegedly gave him too much of his prescribed medication.
Kelly was put in solitary confinement without consent on June 10 before the incident, according to his legal team, shortly after they had submitted an emergency motion for his release.
According to that motion, three Bureau of Prisons officials plotted to have another prisoner kill him. The documents state that Kelly felt faint and lightheaded when she woke up early on June 13. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital and kept there for two days after the prison's medical staff was unable to stabilise him.
One of the court filings read, "Mr. Kelly’s life is in danger, and that danger is coming from Bureau of Prisons officials and their action. Mr. Kelly needs this Court’s intervention. His life actually depends on it."
After being found guilty in 2021 of racketeering and sex trafficking, R. Kelly was imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner, North Carolina.
R. Kelly's legal team has added these charges to an expanding list of similar ones, claiming that prison officials are actively trying to kill or injure the 58-year-old singer, according to recent court filings.
When R. Kelly's legal team filed a motion on June 11 accusing Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials of planning to have the disgraced R&B singer killed while he was in federal custody at a prison in Tucson, Arizona, earlier this year, the legal drama took a dramatic turn.
According to the court documents, BOP officials allegedly approached another inmate, Mikeal Glenn Stine—who is said to be a member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang and has been diagnosed with terminal cancer—with a chilling proposition. They purportedly offered him a deal: to spend the remainder of his life as a free man in exchange for assassinating Kelly.
Instead of going through with the plan, the documents allege that Stine did not follow through, and these shocking claims have now been presented as part of Kelly's ongoing legal battle.
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