R. Kelly, the popular American singer, has been relocated to a prison in North Carolina, where he will serve his prison sentence. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Kelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was moved from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, last week.
Kelly was sentenced in February to an additional year in prison for his Chicago conviction of federal child pornography and child enticement charges, on top of the 30 years he’s already serving for a separate conviction out of New York.
In September 2022, a federal jury in Chicago convicted Kelly of sexually abusing three women on video, while acquitting him of enticement charges involving two other accusers. The same jury acquitted him of seven other charges, including obstruction of justice.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx last month decided to drop sexual abuse and sexual assault indictments against Kelly, noting he was already facing decades in prison, saying her office’s limited resources would be better spent pursuing other sexual assault cases.
Kelly, who is now 56 years old, could be eligible for release from prison when he’s a little over 79 years old.