R.Kelly

R. Kelly Moved To North Carolina Prison From Chicago
26 Apr

R. Kelly Moved To North Carolina Prison From Chicago

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Singer R. Kelly was moved from a Chicago correctional center to a medium-security prison in North Carolina last week, according to federal officials. Robert Sylvester Kelly was transferred from the Metropolitan Correctional Center Chicago to the federal correctional institution in Butner, North Carolina, on April 19, Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Benjamin O’Cone said Monday via email. The bureau doesn’t disclose the reasons for inmate transfers due to privacy, safety and security reasons, he wrote. In February, a federal judge in Chicago sentenced the 56-year-old Grammy Award-winning R&B singer to 20 years in prison for child pornography and enticement of…
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24 Feb

R. Kelly Gets Extra Prison Time After Latest Sex Abuse Conviction

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Disgraced singer R. Kelly must spend an extra year in prison on top of a 30-year sentence he is already serving. Kelly was jailed in June 2022 for three decades for sex trafficking and racketeering after a trial in New York. Several months later, he was convicted in a second federal trial in Chicago of enticing minors for sex and producing child sexual imagery. He has now received a 20-year term for those crimes, but 19 will be served at the same time as the previous sentence. If served in full, he will be behind bars until he is in…
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R. Kelly: The History Of His Crimes And Allegations Against Him
23 Feb

R. Kelly: The History Of His Crimes And Allegations Against Him

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For more than two decades, chart-topping R&B singer R. Kelly had faced allegations of sexual abuse. The accounts went back to the start of his career in the 1990s, with many centring on the predatory pursuit of teenage girls. In 2022, he was jailed for 30 years after being found guilty of eight counts of sex trafficking and one of racketeering in a New York court. Months later, he was convicted of child sexual abuse in a second federal trial in Chicago. The singer – whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly – is also due to face sexual misconduct…
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R. Kelly Silenced Aaliyah And Her Family With NDA After Marriage Annulment, Docuseries Reveals
06 Jan

R. Kelly Silenced Aaliyah And Her Family With NDA After Marriage Annulment, Docuseries Reveals

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R. Kelly silenced Aaliyah and her family through a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), following his marriage and subsequent annulment to the then-15-year-old singer. The new allegations were made in the final instalment of Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly,” which aired on Jan. 2 and Jan. 3. The docuseries centred around R. Kelly’s 2022 federal trial where the NDA was brought up in the courtroom as evidence. The late Aaliyah was Jane Doe #1 in the trial. “Surviving R. Kelly” utilizes Aaliyah’s story to spotlight her as a victim of R. Kelly, after years of the media and music industry scandalizing her marriage to the now-convicted…
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‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Final Installment Reveals ‘Chilling’ Details About Abuser’s Grooming Of Young Men
04 Jan

‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Final Installment Reveals ‘Chilling’ Details About Abuser’s Grooming Of Young Men

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When the Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly” debuted four years ago, R. Kelly was a free man. The R&B singer’s career had long been trailed by allegations of abusing underage girls, which first arose in the early ’90s, but he remained one of the most successful hitmakers of that decade and into the 2000s. Also during that time, Kelly was briefly jailed and brought to trial for a 2002 indictment on 21 counts of child pornography. He was acquitted in 2008. Kelly’s circumvention of the justice system damaged his career as an artist, but didn’t end it. It wasn’t until “Surviving…
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R. Kelly To Pay $300,000 To Victim In Sex Crimes
30 Sep

R. Kelly To Pay $300,000 To Victim In Sex Crimes

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A federal judge signalled, on Wednesday, that she plans to order disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly to pay more than $300,000 to one of his victims in a decades-long scheme to use his fame to sexually abuse young fans. A restitution order by U.S. District Judge Ann Connelly that was still being finalized is meant to cover the cost of treatment for herpes and psychotherapy. The victim, referred to only by a pseudonym, has accused the jailed Kelly of giving her the sexually transmitted disease during one of their encounters. Kelly could be on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars…
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R Kelly Convicted, Acquitted In Child Pornography Case Involving Goddaughter
16 Sep

R Kelly Convicted, Acquitted In Child Pornography Case Involving Goddaughter

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R. Kelly has been convicted of multiple child pornography charges at a Chicago federal trial and acquitted on others. The RnB singer serving a sentence in another State was convicted on three of four counts of production of child pornography and three of five counts of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity. In a report by CNN, R Kelly was acquitted on one count each of conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspiracy to receive child pornography as well as two counts of receiving child pornography. R Kelly The singer's attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said her client had a…
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