R. Kelly Hospitalized After Prison Overdose, Lawyer Claims It Was Murder Attempt

Disgraced R&B star R. Kelly was rushed to the hospital after overdosing on medication given to him by prison staff, an incident his lawyer claims was a plot to end his life.

R Kelly, currently serving a 30-year sentence at a prison in North Carolina for sex trafficking and racketeering, was allegedly placed in solitary confinement on June 10.

According to a legal filing from his attorney, Beau Brindley, the singer was already taking medication for anxiety when a prison staff gave him an additional dose.

On June 13, just three days later, Kelly collapsed in his cell and was rushed to Duke University Hospital, where he stayed under observation for two days.

Brindley says the amount of medication Kelly was given could have killed him, insisting the overdose wasn’t a mistake.

“The officers gave him an amount of medicine that could have k!lled him. This was no mistake. It was a dose that jeopardized his life and nearly ended it,” Brindley said.

The lawyer has now filed an emergency motion requesting R. Kelly’s release from prison, arguing that his life is in danger.

This is the third attempt Brindley has made to secure his client’s release, this time citing what he claims was an orchestrated murder attempt.

According to the motion, three prison officials—including a warden and an assistant warden—allegedly plotted with a terminally ill member of the Aryan Brotherhood, Mikeal Glenn Stine, to kill Kelly.

In a sworn affidavit, Stine said officials previously instructed him to carry out violent attacks on other inmates and claimed they approached him in February 2023 with a request to assassinate Kelly to cover up misconduct linked to his conviction.

Stine says he initially agreed but later backed out after spending weeks observing Kelly.

He eventually confessed the plot to the singer, warning him his life was in serious danger.

“I told him the truth,” Stine stated in his declaration. “I told him that I had been sent to kill him. I told him how and by who. And I told him his life was absolutely in danger.”

Brindley argues that continuing to hold Kelly in custody under these circumstances violates his constitutional rights.

He claims the prison can no longer guarantee Kelly’s safety and that keeping him behind bars could lead to fatal consequences.

“Time is now of the essence,” Brindley wrote. “It is with these breathtaking facts in mind that Mr. Kelly asks this Court for an extraordinary legal remedy: his release from Bureau of Prisons custody.”

KanyiDaily recalls that R. Kelly’s daughter, Buku Abi previously revealed how close she came to ending her life after allegedly being sexually abused by her father when she was a child.