Chicago, Il — The jury begun its deliberations in the R. Kelly federal trial at Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Tuesday, where it will decide the fate of the disgraced singer who is charged with 13 counts of producing and receiving child pornography, enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Jurors will also rule on related charges for his co-defendants, former business manager Derrel McDavid and former assistant Milton “June” Brown.
McDavid is charged on one count of conspiracy to receive child pornography, two counts of receiving child pornography,...
McDavid is charged on one count of conspiracy to receive child pornography, two counts of receiving child pornography,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Chicago, Il — Settling sexual misconduct civil lawsuits became the “cost of doing business,” Derrel McDavid, R. Kelly’s former business manager and co-defendant in the disgraced singer’s federal child pornography trial at Dirksen U.S Courthouse, testified on Wednesday. The Cpa-turned-business-manager for R. Kelly began working with the singer in the early Nineties.
During McDavid’s time on the stand — he’s the only defendant to do so in the trial — he and one of his attorneys Beau Brindley detailed how McDavid grew to dismiss claims of sexual...
During McDavid’s time on the stand — he’s the only defendant to do so in the trial — he and one of his attorneys Beau Brindley detailed how McDavid grew to dismiss claims of sexual...
- 9/8/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Veteran reporter Jim DeRogatis is no stranger to strong allegations against R. Kelly: He’s the reporter who in 2000 received the sex tape that prosecutors alleged showed the singer having sex with a 14-year-old girl, and which led to Kelly’s highly publicized 2008 trial on child-pornography charges. Although that case was ultimately dismissed, multiple allegations of sexual misconduct have surrounded the singer since the mid-1990s — including his alleged illegal marriage to singer Aaliyah, when she was just 15 — and last summer DeRogatis reported that three sets of parents claim Kelly is holding their daughters in an abusive “cult.”
Those reports claim that the young women fell under Kelly’s sway after being brought to him by their parents in an effort to further their musical careers, but that he then “brainwashed” them and now keeps several young women at his homes in Atlanta and Chicago; replaces their cell phones...
Those reports claim that the young women fell under Kelly’s sway after being brought to him by their parents in an effort to further their musical careers, but that he then “brainwashed” them and now keeps several young women at his homes in Atlanta and Chicago; replaces their cell phones...
- 7/23/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
In the wake of a new round of sexual-abuse allegations against R. Kelly, Bleachers frontman and hitmaker Jack Antonoff tweeted that he hopes his label, RCA drops the veteran R&B singer, adding “I’ve discussed it with them a number of times.” Both artists are signed to the label; Kelly has been on RCA since Jive, the label to which he was originally signed, was combined with RCA as part of the Sony-BMG merger beginning in 2004 (Jive was ultimately shuttered in 2011). His most recent release was a Christmas-themed album issued in late 2016.
The tweet has since been deleted but was screen-grabbed by Stereogum. Reps for Kelly and RCA did not immediately respond to requests for comment, although a rep for the label recently confirmed to Variety that Kelly is still on the label.
On Tuesday, Kelly was accused of sexually abusing a girl since she was 14 years old in a BBC documentary,...
The tweet has since been deleted but was screen-grabbed by Stereogum. Reps for Kelly and RCA did not immediately respond to requests for comment, although a rep for the label recently confirmed to Variety that Kelly is still on the label.
On Tuesday, Kelly was accused of sexually abusing a girl since she was 14 years old in a BBC documentary,...
- 3/29/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
In the latest in a long string of allegations of sexual impropriety against underaged or young women, singer R Kelly is accused of sexually abusing a girl since she was 14 years old in a BBC documentary, according to The Guardian.
Kitti Jones, who dated Kelly for two years beginning in 2011, makes the claim about another woman in a BBC3 documentary, “R Kelly: Sex, Girls and Videotapes.” In it, Jones says she herself was “groomed” by Kelly and forced to have sex with him and others multiple times in a “sex dungeon.”
“I was introduced to one of the girls, that he told me he ‘trained’ since she was 14, those were his words,” she says. “I saw that she was dressed like me, that she was saying the things I’d say and her mannerisms were like mine. That’s when it clicked in my head that he had been grooming...
Kitti Jones, who dated Kelly for two years beginning in 2011, makes the claim about another woman in a BBC3 documentary, “R Kelly: Sex, Girls and Videotapes.” In it, Jones says she herself was “groomed” by Kelly and forced to have sex with him and others multiple times in a “sex dungeon.”
“I was introduced to one of the girls, that he told me he ‘trained’ since she was 14, those were his words,” she says. “I saw that she was dressed like me, that she was saying the things I’d say and her mannerisms were like mine. That’s when it clicked in my head that he had been grooming...
- 3/28/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
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