American R&B singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly, has officially appealed to President Donald Trump to end his 30-year prison sentence for sex-related crimes.
The 59-year-old music artist was convicted of federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges in New York in September 2021.
Attorneys representing the singer submitted the request for a commutation of his sentence to the Office of the Pardon Attorney in the United States Department of Justice. The application is currently listed as “pending” on the office’s official website.
In 2025, Kelly’s legal team urged the president to release him from prison, accusing federal authorities of plotting to steal his mail to pressure witnesses into testifying against him.
The lawyers further alleged that prison authorities later recruited a white supremacist to kill the singer while he was in custody.
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