R&B singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly, has asked United States President, Donald Trump to commute his 31-year prison sentence for racketeering, sex trafficking and child sexual abuse-related convictions.

According to documents released this week by the Office of the Pardon Attorney, Kelly submitted a clemency application to the US Department of Justice requesting that his prison term be reduced through a presidential commutation rather than a full pardon.

The records, first reported by The Guardian on Thursday, show that the application is currently under review.

Kelly, 59, was found guilty in 2021 on racketeering charges after prosecutors accused him of operating a criminal enterprise that recruited women and underage girls for illegal sexual exploitation and the production of pornographic material. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A year later, he was convicted in a separate federal case on three counts involving child sexual abuse material and three counts of child enticement. Although he received a 20-year sentence, the majority of that term is being served concurrently with his earlier sentence, resulting in an additional year behind bars.

The singer is currently serving a combined 31-year prison term at a federal correctional facility in North Carolina and is scheduled for release in January 2046.

His attorney, Beau Brindley, has spent more than a year seeking presidential clemency on his behalf.

In 2025, Brindley also filed an emergency motion requesting that Kelly be transferred to home detention, arguing that his client’s life was at risk after alleging that prison officials were involved in a plot to have another inmate kill him. The court rejected the request.

Kelly has continued to deny all allegations against him.