# Disgraced R&B singer R Kelly has filed a formal request asking US president Donald Trump to commute his 30-year prison sentence. The 59-year-old, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was found guilty in 2021 of leading a criminal enterprise that recruited women and underage girls for illegal sexual activity and pornography. In 2022, he was found guilty on three counts of child abuse images and three counts of child enticement. Kelly is serving his sentence in North Carolina and is not eligible for release until January 2046.
R Kelly formally asks Trump to commute his 30-year sentence for sex trafficking and racketeering