Two of R. Kelly's top lawyers no longer want to represent the disgraced R &B singer just two months before he’s scheduled to stand trial in a Brooklyn, New York, federal court on sex abuse charges.

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FILE - R&B singer R. Kelly leaves the Cook County Criminal Court Building Friday, June 13, 2008, in Chicago after a jury found him not guilty on all counts in his child pornography trial.

Another admitted he owed Kelly for his break in music business and wanted to see him beat the charges.By contrast, prosecutors have called dozens of witnesses since the trial began in federal ...

FILE - Musician R. Kelly leaves the Leighton Criminal Court building in Chicago on June 6, 2019. Kelly’s federal trial starts Monday in Chicago. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky, File) By: Sarah Dewberry Posted ...

R. Kelly dominated not only women and girls but also his employees over a quarter century of sexual abuse, a prosecutor said on Wednesday as the R&B star's sex trafficking trial neared its conclusion.

Kelly’s lawyers say in a motion that prison officials hatched a plot to get an inmate to kill him. The filing is the latest bid to undo his 30-year sentence for sex crimes and racketeering.

R. Kelly, currently serving a 31-year prison sentence, has extended sympathy to Sean “Diddy” Combs as the Bad Boy Records founder faces federal charges of his own.

CHICAGO - The federal judge in R. Kelly’s federal child pornography trial is scheduled to take up requests by the disgraced R&B star and his two co-defendants to acquit them of all charges ...

FiLE — In this Sept. 17, 2019 file photo, R. Kelly turns to exit during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court building, in Chicago. (Antonio Perez/ via AP Pool, File) ...

FILE – This photo from Friday May 9, 2008, shows R. Kelly arriving for the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago.

A federal judge gave the green light Thursday, April 15, 2021, to move jailed R&B singer R. Kelly to New York City to go on trial this summer after several delays.