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More than half a million of R. Kelly’s music royalties held by the Universal Music Group will be given to his sex abuse victims, a New York judge has ordered. On Wednesday (23.08.23), US District Judge Ann Donnelly ruled that the disgraced R'n'B star will have to give up $520,549 from his music publisher to cover the cost of unpaid restitution and fines. UMG has 10 days to hand over the cash. Sony’s royalties of more than $1.5 million are being sought by a Chicago child pornography victim, who was awarded $4 million, as Kelly still owes them $42,000 in fines and restitution. However, Sony Musi...
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R Kelly has been handed a 20-year prison sentence for his convictions on child sexual abuse images and enticement of minors for sex charges. The disgraced RnB sensation, 56, is already serving 30 years on racketeering charges, and was told by US District Judge Harry Leinenweber on Thursday (23.02.23) in Chicago the new two-decade sentence will be served simultaneously with the previous term. Mr Leinenweber also ordered Kelly serve another year in prison on top of the 30-year sentence handed down following his earlier trial in New York. Kelly was found guilty of three counts of producing child ...
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The state of Illinois will drop its sexual abuse charges against R. Kelly in Cook County, due to the “extensive sentences” he’s already serving. The 'Ignition' hitmaker is already facing three decades in prison after he was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering last year. Sentencing on his separate conviction in Chicago for producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex is due on 23 February, which could add even more decades, with the star already not getting out of jail in his lifetime. So the state does not deem it necessary for any more years to be added because "justice ha...
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R Kelly’s former manager has been sentenced to a year in jail for calling in a shooting threat to a cinema trying to show a damning documentary about the disgraced RnB sensation’s years of abuse. Donnell Russell, 47, was handed the term on Monday (19.12.22) after he admitted in court he had made “bad judgments” when he briefly worked for Kelly, and insisted: “I’m not a horrible person.” But US District Judge Paul Gardephe branded him someone who took part in “serious criminal conduct” in “a misguided attempt to protect someone who was a prolific abuser”. Russell – who used the gun warning to t...
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R Kelly appears to have furiously told people to “leave my music alone” in an email from jail. The Chicago Sun-Times said it received a message from the convicted sex predator through an email service for federal inmates. It reported Kelly’s defence attorney Jennifer Bonjean said the note appeared to be an authentic message from her client, but she added it was likely typed by someone else, saying: “He has people inside who he dictates to. That’s how he writes me all the time.” The Sun-Times said the message pleaded with people to “just leave my music alone, because it is all I have left, it’s...
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R Kelly’s lawyer says there is not much “appetite” from police to investigate the leak of an album containing new tracks by the sex predator. Attorney Jennifer Bonjean told The Washington Post that the 13-track record, titled ‘I Admit’, was an “unauthorised” release of stolen music and contains “music of Mr Kelly’s that is in the hands of people who should not have it”. The songs, all recorded before Kelly’s imprisonment, appeared on streamers including Apple Music and Spotify on Friday (09.12.22) but were removed within hours. Jennifer also told the Post Kelly’s master recordings were stolen ...
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A new R Kelly album titled ‘I Admit’ is said to be a bootleg. Representatives for Sony Music, which owns the rights to most of the jailed sex predator’s back catalogue, told Variety on Friday (09.12.22) the record is an “unofficial release”. Variety said minutes after reports a new Kelly album had come out it was “a bootleg”, but said “the copyright line on the album reads ‘Legacy Recordings’, which is Sony Music’s catalogue division”. It added about the release, which appeared on streamers including Spotify and Apple on Friday: “Sony’s rep confirmed that the release is not legitimate but did ...
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R Kelly has been found guilty in his federal child pornography trial. The shamed ’90s R and B sensation, 55, was convicted on Wednesday (14.09.22) of six out of 13 counts following a month-long trial in his native Chicago. It comes after Kelly – real name Robert Sylvester Kelly – had a 30-year prison sentence handed to him in June after he was found guilty of sex-trafficking and racketeering in a separate federal case in Brooklyn. Jurors convicted him in the Chicago trial after 11 hours of deliberation that started on Tuesday afternoon. (13.09.22) Kelly was accused of videoing himself having s...
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A juror in R Kelly’s child pornography and obstruction of justice trial suffered a panic attack during around four hours of graphic closing arguments in the case as she couldn’t bear to hear “one minute more”. The white woman who works for a public library was excused by the judge at Dirksen US Courthouse, Chicago, around 3.30pm local time. US District Judge Harry Leinenweber said: “I’ve been advised she said she can’t go on one minute more,” before he replaced Juror number 44 with Juror 83, a white man. The switch came after Assistant US Attorney Elizabeth Pozolo and a defense attorney had pr...
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R Kelly must pay more than $27,000 in court fines and victim restitution, a federal judge has ruled. US District Judge Ann M. Donnelly has ruled that the 55-year-old music star’s victims needed $27,828 in "full and timely restitution" from his prison account after he was given a 30-year prison sentence in June after being found guilty of sexual exploitation of children, racketeering, bribery and sex trafficking. The prosecution said: "The defendant has amassed nearly $30,000 in his inmate trust account over the course of the last three years of incarceration. "The defendant has not made any pa...
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