Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The first lawsuit against R. Kelly, the disgraced r&b superstar, for sexual abuse of a minor was filed in 1996, nearly a quarter ...

21 Savage ended his album, What Happened to the Streets?, with an R. Kelly sample. The last song on 21’s album, “I Wish,” borrows from Kelly’s song of the same name. The incarcerated singer released ...

The incarcerated former R&B superstar says he believes Board of Prisons officials are attempting to kill him and now wants a new trial, citing prosecutorial corruption. By Kevin Dolak An attorney for ...

R. Kelly’s net worth once reflected his status as a legend in the music industry. He spent decades as one of the biggest names in music, specifically R&B, and regularly topped the charts with hits ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A judge has denied disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly's request to be detained at home. Earlier this month, Kelly's lawyers filed a motion for his immediate release, saying his life is ...

R. Kelly is again begging to be released from prison amid alleged threats on his life. According to a TMZ report published on Wednesday (June 18), the R&B singer was begging his legal team to help him ...

R. Kelly collapsed in prison Friday and had to be hospitalized outside prison walls, then didn’t get care that hospital staff said he needed, his attorney alleged in a Monday court filing. The ...

CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly collapsed in prison and was hospitalized, attorneys said in court filings this week, adding the details to the singer’s extraordinary allegations of a murder plot by prison ...

Disgraced R&B artist R. Kelly was rushed to a hospital last week after overdosing on medications allegedly given to him by prison staff, his legal team said in a new court filing. The “I Believe I Can ...

R. Kelly was recently taken to the hospital after allegedly being given too much medication by prison staff while in solitary confinement, according to a filing from the disgraced R&B singer’s legal ...