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R. Kelly hospitalized after prison overdose, alleged murder plot, lawyers say

R. Kelly's lawyers say he was hospitalized last week for a prison overdose after alleging a murder-for-hire plot against him.

According to the filing, Kelly was forcibly removed from Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, against medical advice. The lawyers say leading up to his overdose, Kelly was placed in solitary confinement on June 10 "against his will," shortly after his team filed an emergency motion for furlough last week. In that motion, Kelly's team claimed three Bureau of Prisons officials allegedly devised a plot to have him killed by another inmate.

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