KJ Biermann

Introduction

Kroy Jagger “KJ” Biermann Jr. is the 15-year-old son of former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kim Zolciak and former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Kroy Biermann, who grew up on television in the Bravo series “Don’t Be Tardy.” In August 2026 he was arrested in Georgia on felony sexual-assault charges, and on September 3, 2026, a Fulton County grand jury indicted him on seven felony counts, including aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and false imprisonment.

He is prosecuted as an adult under Georgia law, and through his attorney and his mother he has forcefully denied the allegations. On September 11, 2026, after a bond hearing at which prosecutors revealed new allegations, a judge granted him a $200,000 bond, ending more than three weeks in which he had been held without bond at Atlanta’s Metro Regional Youth Detention Center.

Background Information

KJ is the eldest son of Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann. His parents have been locked in a public divorce and custody battle since 2023; in May 2026 a judge temporarily awarded his father primary physical custody of the couple’s four minor children, and Zolciak later alleged the children faced mistreatment in their father’s care, claims Kroy Biermann disputed. His attorney’s bond filing described a high-school football player “in good standing” with “strong academic achievement,” citing his character, achievements and scholarship offers.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Allegations. The claims in this section are allegations from Fulton County prosecutors, police reports and court filings as described in news coverage. KJ Biermann has been indicted but not tried; the charges are not convictions, and he is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. He denies all of the allegations through his attorney, who has called him “100% innocent.”

The charges stem from an alleged April 23, 2026, encounter at a Life Time fitness center in Alpharetta, Georgia. According to the police complaint obtained by USA TODAY, a 15-year-old girl who knew KJ through his girlfriend met him at the gym, and the two went into a co-ed sauna, where she alleges he physically prevented her from leaving and forced her into sexual acts while she repeatedly said no. Surveillance footage reportedly showed the two entering the family locker room, where they stayed roughly thirty minutes. The girl reported the alleged assault the next day; the exam reportedly found no male DNA, a point KJ’s defense has emphasized.

KJ was arrested August 17, 2026, on aggravated sexual battery and aggravated sodomy charges. On September 3 a grand jury returned the seven-count indictment, and under Georgia’s SB440 law, which gives adult superior courts jurisdiction over teenagers 13 to 17 accused of designated violent felonies, his case proceeds in adult court.

New allegations were revealed at the September 11 bond hearing. Deputy District Attorney Caitlin McGillicuddy said investigators previously found phone videos allegedly depicting KJ having sex with a female family member under the age of 12, described “multiple encounters” and “predatory, derogatory” language, and revealed a previously unreported charge of sexual battery of a victim under 16 over an alleged April 2023 incident, with court supervision since October 2025.

Attorney Jason Sheffield pushed back, saying the “characterizations made in court regarding the prior juvenile matter” grossly misrepresent “both the facts and the ultimate resolution of that case”; the matter “arose from inappropriate, crude behavior involving two middle-schoolers” and “did not result in an adjudication for statutory rape, sexual intercourse, or any comparable offense.” He has maintained KJ’s innocence in the current case and said his client expects to plead not guilty to all charges.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The case against a reality-TV child has drawn intense tabloid attention and a forceful public counter-campaign from his family. Kim Zolciak called the allegations “nothing short of reckless and deeply troubling,” said her son “categorically denies ever being involved with this woman or engaging in the conduct she has alleged,” and asserted he passed a voluntary polygraph and that no DNA belonging to him was found. “No one should be publicly condemned based solely on an accusation,” she said.

Sheffield declared KJ “100% innocent” and argued that “adult consequences do not transform a child into an adult.”

The September 11 bond hearing itself was contentious. Prosecutors opposed release and asked for a $190,000 bond, citing “documented physical injury” to the alleged victim in the April incident, which McGillicuddy labeled “predatory.” A statement from the alleged victim was read aloud: she had been “living in fear” over alleged threats that KJ would come after her and her family if he were released, family members had received emails and phone calls over the situation, and “the thought of him being released scares me more than I can put into words.” KJ’s parents and his older sister Brielle were in the gallery — Zolciak appearing “stone-faced,” per Page Six — while KJ “remained emotionless throughout the hearing.”

Current Status

On September 11, 2026, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Melynee Leftridge set KJ’s bond at $200,000 after a hearing in which Sheffield argued the jail stay had been “so traumatizing” and that Zolciak, who is at home and not currently employed, would monitor her son. The conditions of his release are strict: he must live at his mother’s home and attend school virtually, abstain from social media and any cellphone use, have no direct or indirect contact with the alleged victim, her family or associates, avoid contact with anyone aged 16 or under, and submit to electronic monitoring.

The charges are allegations and KJ has not been tried; he is scheduled to be arraigned on October 14, 2026, and is expected to plead not guilty. His legal team has also asked that the case move to juvenile court, citing his ongoing development and the severe penalties the adult charges carry.

Impact on Their Career/Life

KJ has no public career beyond his childhood appearances on “Don’t Be Tardy,” but the case has engulfed the family’s public life against the backdrop of his parents’ ongoing divorce and custody fight. Though untried, he has already spent more than three weeks jailed without bond and now faces strict release conditions while awaiting trial in a case that will determine whether he faces adult prison exposure of potentially decades or transfer to the juvenile system his attorney wants.

The newly revealed bond-hearing allegations have raised the stakes: prosecutors point to the classmate’s account, the alleged physical injury and the prior juvenile matter, while the defense calls the case unproven and the prior characterizations materially misleading.