Conspiracy theorists are likely having a field day right now with the startling news that R. Kelly overdosed in prison following his lawyer's recent claims that he's the target of a murder plot.

R. Kelly was given "an amount of medicine that could have killed him," according to a federal court filing by his lawyer, Beau Brindley, on Monday (June 16), CBS News reports. Prison staff at the Federal Correctional Institute facility in Butner, N.C., where he's doing time after his 2021 conviction of racketeering and sex trafficking, reportedly administered the medication, which caused the embattled singer to overdose.

"Mr. Kelly’s life is in danger, and that danger is coming from Bureau of Prisons officials and their actions," one of the court filings reads, as reported by NBC News. "Mr. Kelly needs this Court’s intervention. His life actually depends on it."

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