R. Kelly Being Held At Federal Prison In Granville County, Institution Reports
BUTNER, N.C. — Convicted felon and disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly is currently being held at a federal prison in Granville County, according to the institution’s website.
The website shows 56-year-old Robert Sylvester Kelly, the Grammy Award-winning singer’s legal name, is currently an inmate at Federal Correctional Institution Butner Medium I.
The facility is a medium security federal correction institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp, according to their website.
It lists R. Kelly’s release date as ‘unknown.’
A representative with FCI Butner did not indicate when or why Kelly was transferred to the facility.
On June 29, 2022, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York after a jury found him guilty of sex trafficking and violating the Mann Act, which makes it illegal to take anyone across state lines “for any immoral purpose.”
On Feb. 23 of this year, a federal judge rejected a call from prosecutors to keep R. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead saying he would serve all but one of his 20 years on child sex convictions simultaneously with a previous racketeering sentence.
Kelly, a three-time Grammy award winner who rose to stardom in the 1990s, has faced allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse throughout nearly his entire career. He drew scrutiny over his marriage to late R&B singer Aaliyah in 1994 when he was 24 years old and she was 15, as well as a 1996 lawsuit from his ex-wife Tiffany Hawkins claiming Kelly had sex with her when she was a minor—Kelly paid $250,000 to settle the case. He was also charged with 21 counts of child pornography in 2002 but was acquitted six years later. He was convicted in the New York case in 2021 on eight counts of sex trafficking, for violating the federal Mann Act by taking minors across state lines for sex, and one count of racketeering.
This article first appeared on CBS17.com
Feature image credit: R. Kelly leaves the Leighton Criminal Court Building after a hearing on sexual abuse charges on May 7, 2019, in Chicago. Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images