Singer turned serial predator R. Kelly has been hospitalized.

The disgraced singer, who is serving a 30-year sentence for child exploitation and sex trafficking, was hospitalized after overdosing in prison.

Kelly, who is in a North Carolina prison, however, claims prison officials are the ones who gave him the lethal amount of meds.

CBS had more on Kelly’s overdose:

R. Kelly was hospitalized for an overdose after prison staff gave him “an amount of medicine that could have killed him” and was later forcibly removed from a hospital against medical advice, his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing Monday.

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The disgraced singer’s lawyer is requesting that a judge move him to home detention from the North Carolina prison where he his serving his sentences.

“Mr. Kelly’s life is in danger and the threat comes from Bureau of Prisons officers whose duty is to protect him,” his attorney, Beau Brindley, wrote in a court motion.

He alleges the federal Bureau of Prisons is “seeking to kill” Kelly “to cover up crimes committed in the investigation of his case.”

#RKelly alleges Bureau of Prisons staff at his federal center in North Carolina purposefully gave him too much medication — causing an overdose that left him in the hospital.

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So, what did R. Kelly do to get into prison?

ICE has the details:

Robert Sylvester Kelly, the R&B singer also known as “R. Kelly,” was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to 30 years in prison June 29. On Sept. 27, 2021, following six weeks of trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Kelly of all nine counts of a superseding indictment charging him with racketeering predicated on criminal conduct including sexual exploitation of children, forced labor and Mann Act violations involving the coercion and transportation of women and girls in interstate commerce to engage in illegal sexual activity.

Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Steve K. Francis, Acting Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), announced the sentence.

“R. Kelly used his fame, fortune and enablers to prey on the young, the vulnerable and the voiceless for his own sexual gratification, while many turned a blind eye,” stated U.S. Attorney Peace. “Through his actions, Kelly exhibited a callous disregard for the devastation his crimes had on his victims and has shown no remorse for his conduct. With today’s sentence he has finally and appropriately been held accountable for his decades of abuse, exploitation and degradation of teenagers and other vulnerable young people. We hope that today’s sentence brings some measure of comfort and closure to the victims, including those who bravely testified at trial, and serves as long-overdue recognition that their voices deserve to be heard and their lives matter.”

Mr. Peace also thanked the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office for their assistance with the case.

“Robert Kelly is a prolific serial predator who utilized his wealth and fame to prey on the young and vulnerable by dangling promises of fame, fortune, and stardom for his own sexual gratification. For nearly thirty years, Kelly and his accomplices silenced his victims through bribery, intimidation, blackmail, and physical violence, confident they were immune to justice,” stated HSI Acting Executive Associate Director Steve K. Francis. “Today’s sentence is a victory which belongs to the survivors of Kelly’s abuse. These brave women and men came forward, despite threats to their own personal safety, and were forced to relive the pain of the most traumatic days of their lives to tell the truth and make their voices heard.”

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