Disgraced singer R Kelly was rushed to hospital after his attorneys say he overdosed on medication given to him by staff in prison.
The R&B singer experienced an overdose last week due to being compelled by prison staff to take anxiety medication while in solitary confinement, his lawyer stated in a court filing. Federal prosecutors refuted this claim.
He is serving a 30-year prison sentence for racketeering and sex trafficking, after being exposed as a serial sex abuser in the #MeToo movement.
In a legal document submitted on June 17 on behalf of the artist, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, it was noted that he was placed in solitary confinement on June 10, alongside his usual anxiety medication.
On June 13, he was given an ‘overdose quantity’ of the medications and was directed to take them, the filing said.
On that day, Kelly reported feeling ‘faint’ and ‘dizzy’, and mentioned seeing ‘black spots’ in his vision, before he lost consciousness and was taken urgently to Duke University Hospital.
According to the filing, the rapper was heard telling a prison staffer that ‘this is going to open a new can of worms.’
Kelly spent two days recovering in hospital, and his attorneys allege that the prison staffers ‘gave him an amount of medicine that could have killed him.’
Disgraced singer R Kelly was rushed to hospital after overdosing on medication in prison
He is serving a 30-year prison sentence for racketeering and sex trafficking, after being exposed as a serial sex abuser in the #MeToo movement
According to Kelly’s lawyers, he has been mistreated in prison by staffers and has not been given necessary treatment for blood clots.
When he was rushed to hospital, doctors reportedly found blood clots in his legs that will require further surgery.
However, he was denied surgery and was allegedly forcible removed from the hospital after several days.
Kelly was allegedly put in solitary confinement ‘against his will’ in response to a separate filing from his attorneys that claimed three prison officials hatched a plot to have him killed by a white supremacist gang.
In a jaw-dropping filing from Kelly’s attorneys about this alleged murder plot, it cited a sworn declaration from terminally ill inmate named Mikeal Glenn Stine that alleged the prison officials asked him to carry out the singer’s murder.
Kelly requested he be placed on house arrest for his crimes – which included convictions for child pornography and enticing minors for sex. Prosecutors have slammed this attempt to be freed from his sex crimes sentence as ‘deeply unserious’ and ‘repugnant.’
According to Kelly’s lawyers, he has been mistreated in prison by staffers and has not been given necessary treatment for blood clots
Stine, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang, alleged that high-ranking officials in the prison system offered him the opportunity to escape from prison and live out his final months as a ‘free man’ before his terminal illness kills him.
In the filing, it was further alleged that Stine was pressured to carry out the killing in March when he was transferred to Kelly’s unit, and was told by staff: ‘You need to do what you came here for.’
Stine said he stalked Kelly for months as he considered the assassination plot, but changed his mind and told the singer about the plan to kill him, according to the filing cited by The Independent.
The singer’s attorneys say they became aware of a second plot in June to have a different member of the Aryan Brotherhood kill both Kelly and Stine.
Kelly’s attorneys have requested a pardon from President Trump, saying the singer ‘does not have the luxury to wait for vindication from the Courts that will follow the exposure of the corruption at the heart of his prosecutions.’
The attorneys previously claimed they ‘are engaged in conversations with multiple persons close to the White House and to President Trump.’
