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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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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 is said to have offered $1 million for the return of an alleged child pornography tape. Prosecutors at the disgraced R and B singer’s Chicago trial introduced evidence of the apparent bid, which they allege happened in 2000. They say the recording showed ‘I Believe I Can Fly’ singer Kelly, 55, sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. He is facing charges including production of child pornography and of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening witnesses and endeavouring to conceal video evidence. A former “merchandising agent” for Kelly, Charles Freeman, testified about ...
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R Kelly allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to buy back child porn videos that appeared to have gone missing in the early 2000s. The disgraced R and B musician and his inner circle are accused of paying the huge sum while trying to recover lost recordings, prosecutors in the singer’s Chicago trial were told. An IRS agent went through individual payments one by one during testimony on Monday (22.08.22). The mother of one of Kelly’s accusers has also told how she and her husband were left fearing for their lives when the singer confronted them over their allegations. She said,...
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R Kelly’s alleged fiancée Joycelyn Savage insists she is expecting a baby with the disgraced singer. She declared she is having their child despite the jailed 55-year-old’s legal team denying her claim. Savage has shared an image of her sonogram and told Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday (18.08.22) she is five months pregnant and having a baby girl. She said: “I’m very excited.” Responding to Kelly’s attorney Jennifer Bonjean’s statements denying her claims, Savage, 26, added: “His lawyer didn’t know that prior to him going to jail. “Robert and I were doing IVF because at the time I was told ...
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R Kelly has a “dark” and “hidden side”, say prosecutors. The ‘Trapped in the Closet’ hitmaker - real name Robert Sylvester Kelly - sat in court in Chicago to hear the opening statements in the case against him as he stands indicted on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges and denies all wrongdoing. The 55-year-old singer - who was imprisoned for 30 years after being found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering last year in New York - is facing 13 criminal counts such creating and receiving child pornography, obstruction of justice and enticing minors into sexual activity. U....
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R Kelly’s lawyer has denied claims the shamed singer’s “fiancée” Joycelyn Savage is pregnant. Attorney Jennifer Bonjean said in a statement on Twitter: “There is no truth to reports that Joy is releasing a tell-all memoir and she is certainly not pregnant with R Kelly’s child. People are just insane. Carry on.” It comes after Savage – one of the alleged victims of Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly – claimed in an e-book she is pregnant. Released on August 12, titled ‘Love and Joy of Robert’ and only 24 pages long, it tells of “the beginning of my life in Robert’s shadow, where things began to...
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