Witnesses reveal R. Kelly only married Aaliyah to avoid prosecution, feds say
R. Kelly's ex-girlfriend and alleged victim, Azriel Clary, has spoken out for the first time about the abuse she says she endured during her relationship with him. She says that he forced her to have sex multiple times a day and that he would beat her with his Nike Air Force One sneakers.
Azriel surprisingly broke the news to the British publication, The Sun:
"Robert has his live-in girlfriends, he has girlfriends in every city. He has flings in every city." She said that it was unlikely that they would all come forward as Kelly is known for seeking out blackmail information to keep his victims silent.
"He makes everyone do very degrading stuff, whether on film or writing it down, he makes them sign it. And I think a lot of women are ashamed or embarrassed to come out because of stuff like that. Because it’ll be incriminating them. There’s so much stuff. He has letters of people saying that they’ve stole from him."
She adds, "He has letters from people saying that they’ve been molested or touched by their parents or their brothers or a family member. He even has people on film molesting their younger nieces or younger brothers. And so, I know a lot of women out there are embarrassed, and are humiliated, and are ashamed to come out because, 'This man had that much power to control me, to molest my younger niece or to molest my younger brother,'” she said putting herself in their shoes.
She recalled a time when Kelly reportedly found Azriel talking to one of her high school friends. She says under Kelly's rule, this was not allowed. She was then beaten, and after the beating, another woman washed her in his bathtub while he watched.
"And he beat me all over, it felt like hours, and I was covered in welts all the way from my neck down."
She shared, "No one was ever vocal because whether you were vocal or not, he would still beat you. It was easier pleasing him then getting beat every other day...and everyone learned that very quickly."
FULL VIDEO Of R Kelly's Girlfriends Fighting - Azriel WON {VIDEO}
According to a new court filing, witnesses have come forward and informed federal prosecutors that in 1994 R. Kelly married his protégé Aaliyah in an attempt to avoid criminal charges and prevent her from testifying against him.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, authorities also believe that last year the disgraced singer somehow managed to sneak a letter into the federal jail where he’s being held and then gained access to an “unmonitored line” to make a private phone call.
Prosecutors argue that these alleged incidents are amongst the many reasons why Kelly and his lawyers cannot be allowed to learn the identities of two of the alleged victims in the case he is currently facing in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y. They argue that Kelly’s resistance to following the rules illustrate a “consistent pattern” of obstructing law enforcement.
“Simply put, the defendant’s past behavior reveals that if given the opportunity to influence a potential witness, the defendant will take it, and his incarceration may not be enough to prevent such conduct,” prosecutors wrote.
However, Wednesday, Kelly’s lawyer Steve Greenberg, maintained that “the defense cannot conduct any investigation or adequately prepare for trial without knowing who each of the supposed ‘victims’ are.”
In the court documents, Aaliyah, who passed away in 2001, is only referred to as “Jane Doe #1” but the details alleged in the case make her identity clear.
“Witnesses have advised the government that the defendant engaged in this bribery scheme to obtain a marriage license so he could quickly and secretly marry Jane Doe #1 to avoid criminal charges for engaging in a sexual relationship with Jane Doe #1, who was a minor at the time,” prosecutors wrote. “Specifically, the defendant believed that his marriage to Jane Doe #1 would prevent her from being able to testify against him in the event he were prosecuted for his criminal sexual relationship with her.”
According to the Sun-Times, a revision of the federal indictment in Brooklyn says that Kelly was accused of hatching a bribery scheme to obtain a phony identification for the then-15-year-old Aaliyah in 1994 when they were married.
Kelly is being held in federal custody in Chicago, where he has been since his July arrest. In his federal case, he faces child pornography and obstruction of justice charges in Chicago and racketeering charges in Brooklyn. He also faces local sexual abuse charges in Cook County, Ill., and in Minneapolis.
He has pleaded not guilty to the federal racketeering charges in Brooklyn related to the Aaliyah accusation. He also pleaded not guilty to the other charges of sexually abusing minors.
Joycelyn Savage Turns Herself Into The Cops After Fight With Azriel Clary {VIDEO}
Two days ago, R Kelly's two girlfriends Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary got into a fist fight, outside the singer's Condo in Chicago.
Well TMZ just got footage of the two fighting, and it appears that Azriel won the scrap.
It is surprising, because Azriel is the one who called the police - even after she WON the fight.
A number of security guards from the condo stepped in and tried to break it up. The guards had to pull Azriel off of Joycelyn, who was on the ground getting pummeled by her rival.
Chicago PD responded to a reported battery at Kelly's Trump Tower condo shortly after Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage came to blows. Azriel was on Instagram Live Wednesday afternoon as she appeared to be gathering her things to move out of the condo -- and when Joycelyn came in the room both women went off on each other.
Here's the video:In the video, you see the two ladies going at it - with Azriel getting the upper hand.
Azriel said she was looking out for herself, and then threatened to send Joycelyn to jail for the very thing Kelly's facing ... having sex with a minor. Azriel claimed she was a minor when she had sex with Joycelyn -- perhaps in a threesome with Kelly -- and said she'd report Joycelyn to cops.
After police showed up and Azriel - the winner was taken to the hospital. Joycelyn fled the scene, but she eventually surrendered to police and was arrested and charged with battery.
R. Kelly girlfriend makes revealing statement to cops after 'assault'
Clary - who met R. Kelly when she was 17 - repeatedly calls for charges to be brought against Savage (pictured) and screams about how the woman had sex with her while she was a minor
The shocking scrap was captured on Clary's Instagram video.
Clary - who met R. Kelly when she was 17 - repeatedly calls for charges to be brought against Savage and screams about how the woman had sex with her while she was a minor.
According to Clary's statements to police in one video, the fight broke out when Savage and another woman - named Kimberly - arrived at the residence to get items as both girlfriends are in the process of moving out of Trump Tower.
Clary refers to Kimberly as someone who supports 'him' and calls her a 'handler' and suggests the woman was trying to get R. Kelly's Grammys and other awards.
'She does all his handwork for him from jail,' Clary says in the video.
Clary informs police that Savage started screaming at her and attacked her after Clary informed her that she was going to jail for having sex with a minor.
Another clip shows the actual fight between Clary and Savage, with Clary constantly screaming about the woman having sex with her as a minor.
Savage can be seen screaming at Clary and expressing her disbelief that she would act in that way.
At one point during the altercation, Clary declared that R. Kelly has been lying and expresses that she and Savage were not allowed to watch the first Surviving R. Kelly documentary on Lifetime.
'The skeletons is coming out. Period,' Clary asserts. 'Rob has been lying to all of y'all, and that's the sad part about it. He has been lying to all y'all a***s.
She continues: 'And he had people like me lying for him. That's why we never watched the documentary. So we got on Gayle King as stupid as can f*****g be.'
Clary (left)- who met R. Kelly when she was 17 - claims that Savage (right) had sex with her when she was a minor. She also told police that Savage hit her with her hands and a cellphone
Kelly, 52, is currently in jail, scheduled to stand trial in Cook County in September, then in federal court in Chicago in April and again in federal court in New York the next month
R. Kelly's lawyer seemed unconcerned with the fight.
'I have a statement written by Azriel that she provided to me, voluntarily, after Robert was already in jail, that said she never had sex with him when she was under aged,' Steve Greenberg explained to TMZ.
'As far as this little cat fight, it is clear that it was staged to try and boost social media popularity.'
Kelly is currently in jail, scheduled to stand trial in Cook County in September, then in federal court in Chicago in April and again in federal court in New York the next month.
Kelly has denied all the allegations related to sexual assault with minors, but the #MuteRKelly movement has damaged his financial stability. He did himself few favors when he portrayed himself as a victim in a combative interview with Gayle King in which he pounded his chest and yelled into the camera.
Clary asserts that R. Kelly has been lying and that he would not let them see the documentary about him prior to their Gayle King interview (pictured)
R Kelly's girlfriends accuse their parents of pimping them out
Lifetime To Air "Surviving R. Kelly" Follow-Up Next Month
Jerhonda Pace met R. Kelly in 2008 aged 17, when he was on trial for child porn
She was a super fan and cut school every day to attend his Chicago trial
Now 26, she is among the former girlfriends interviewed in Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning
The five-part docu-series will air on Thursday, January 2, on Lifetime
She revealed that Kelly wanted her to kill herself if she ever went to jail
She said he told her life was not worth living without him and that he gave her pills to kill herself with
Kelly denies all of the allegations against him from nearly 50 women
He is in jail awaiting trial for a range of sexual abuse charges
One of R. Kelly's former girlfriends has told how he forced her into a suicide pact which meant she had to kill herself if he was ever arrested or harmed in the harrowing second installment of a docu-series about his sexual abuse of women.
Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning will air on Lifetime in three parts starting on Thursday January 2.
It is the follow-up from the hugely influential documentary which aired last year and sparked a public outrage movement against the singer. He is in jail awaiting trial on an array of sexual abuse charges across multiple states.
Jerhonda Pace met Kelly when she was just 17. She attended his child pornography trial in Chicago in 2008 as one of his supporters.
Until then, she had been a super fan of the singer but had never met him.
She was introduced to him outside the courtroom then started a relationship with him.
Jerhonda Pace met Kelly when she was just 17. She attended his child pornography trial in Chicago in 2008 as one of his supporters. Now 26, he appears in Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning, where she tells how he made her agree to a
Jerhonda Pace says R. Kelly made her agree to a suicide pact
Kelly, 52, is awaiting trial on several child sex assault charges. He is shown in a September court hearing
'With Rob, I was part of a suicide pact with him. And if anything was to happen to him, if he was to go to jail or someone was to harm him, I was supposed to kill myself.
'When the suicide pact came about, Rob and I was in the mirror room, and he told me if I was everything to him like I say he is, then there would be no life worth living.
'He said, if something happens to me, I want you to take these pills."
'When I was with him I was really ready to take my own life, because Rob was everything to me. Rob was my life,' she said.
Pace met Kelly in 2008 when she was 17 and a super fan. She would cut school every day to attend his child porn trial in Chicago. They are shown walking out of court
Jerhonda was interviewed in the first part of the docu-series but she has never before revealed the suicide pact.
Others who are interviewed tell how they received death threats from Kelly's remaining fans after appearing in the first documentary.
'People started DMin me and saying count your days.
'How could people be this cruel, you have all this evidence? You wanna attack me and tell me all of this. It didn't stop. It hasn't stopped,' she said.
Kelly's 'first victim' who sued him in 1996 says she can't believe no one believed her for years
Tiffany Hawkins, who has sued him in the past and says she is the first young girl he abused, also told how she watched him having sex with a group of her young friends.
She filed a lawsuit against him in 1996 seeking damages, claiming to have slept with him when she was 15 and he was 24 in 1991.
'Robert did ask me to bring friends with me and I did bring friends with me. They always wound up having sex. Always. It always ended up that way.
'The first time I met with Robert after getting his phone number, I gathered some friends, we went to his apartment.
'We were all talking, laughing, you know everybody had fun.
Tiffany Hawkins says she was the first to be abused by Kelly is also interviewed. She says she confided in adults but that nothing was done
Ebony Wilkins says she had sex with Kelly when she was 14 or 15 after being introduced to him by Tiffany Hawkins. It is the first time Wilkins is speaking publicly
'There was a lot of laughs, joking. There was a lot of fun. My friends were all in his bedroom.
'So I would go in and out of the room. And every time I went in there, he was having sex with someone,' she said.
She introduced him to six of her underage friends, who he slept with, before he slept with her, she claims.
Hawkins said he used to call her the 'cable girl' because she 'hooked him up'.
She also said she could not believe it had taken so long for him to be brought down.
In the 1990s, her lawyer says he contacted prosecutors in Chicago but none wanted to hear their story.
That is why, they say, they took him on in civil court instead.
'It happened again and again and again and again,' Hawkins said.
Victim who was his live-in girlfriend and was rescued from hotel by her mom speaks out for first time on camera
Among those who are speaking for the first time on camera is Dominique Gardner whose dramatic rescue from a hotel in Los Angeles by her relentless mother was shown in the first part of the docu-series.
She had been living as one of his girlfriends and never speaking publicly until her mother, Michelle Kramer, tracked her down to the hotel.
Kramer brought her home with her but within a few months, Gardner returned to Kelly. She has since escaped for a second time.
Dominique Gardner, one of Kelly's most recent girlfriends whose mother rescued her from an L.A. hotel room, is also interviewed. It is the first time she is speaking on camera about her relationship with Kelly
Gardner's mother believes Kelly made her dress like a boy.They are shown, right, leaving the hotel she tracked her down to to save her that was part of the first documentary
Michel Avenatti on behalf of victims: Blame Kelly and no one else
Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniel's former lawyer who himself is facing charges for alleged extortion but who is suing Kelly on behalf of some of his alleged victims, is also interviewed.
In the trailer for the series, Avenatti fumes that Kelly should be held accountable.
Lawyer Michael Avenatti, who has been accused of skimming money from clients' settlements, is representing some of Kelly's alleged victims in lawsuits. He is also interviewed
'People look at some of these allegations and they blame the parents or they blame girls.
'Where they should be blaming people is where the blame f*****g belongs and that's with R.Kelly and his enablers. Period,' Avenatti said.
Damon Dash: Why did it take so long for him to be brought down?
The singer's controversial marriage to Aaliyah when she was just 15 is also discussed.
Damon Dash, mega music producer who was dating her when she died, said she wanted nothing to do with Kelly once their marriage was annulled aside from him leaving her alone.
He abhorred the fact no one stepped into help her despite it being public knowledge that she was a child.
Damon Dash also appears in Part II of the documentary. He speaks about Kelly's marriage wit Aaliyah, when she was just 15
Aaliyah was only 15 when she and Kelly got married. It ended in an annulment and Dash, who dated her later, said she wanted nothing to do with him once it had been annulled. The marriage was not a secret, nor was Aaliyah's age, but nothing was done to stop it or help her. Kelly was 27 at the time
Damon Dash says Aaliyah wanted R. Kelly 'kept the f*** away' from her
'Aaliyah was like the sacrificial lamb for all of that. She didn't deserve none of that.
'Good soul, good girl. wasn't even that resentful - let him live but just keep him the f*** away from me.
'She was just happy to be away.
Dash dated Aaliyah until her death in 2001. He said she was a 'sacrificial lamb' to Kelly who never deserved the alleged abuse she endured
'I know the whole story - I know it was a cover up and all of that.
'It just made the conversation less crazy. He married a child.
'That was a headline, that was a rumor.
'Something talked about like, "oh, you married Aaliyah? She's 13!"' he said.
The producer then corrected him to say she was 15 and not 13 when they got married.
Dash hit back: '15 is 13! I don't have to be accurate because I don't care.
'Fifteen, 13 - anything under 18 is disgusting. She was a child.'
He said he always knew what Kelly had allegedly been doing to girls but that he was amazed it took so long for him to be arrested.
'I was with Aaliyah so I knew exactly what was going on. My thing was always I didn't know why it took so long,' he said.
The parents of Joycelyn Savage, one of Kelly's two remaining live-in girlfriends, are interviewed again
Azriel Clary's father, Angelo, is interviewed as well. He said he will stop at nothing to bring her home
Azriel (left) and Joycelyn (right) are the only two women standing by Kelly. They are shown in an interview with Gayle King in March, during which they defended him
Both of the singer's brothers are interviewed.
Bruce Kelly, who is in prison, takes his brother's side and says he feels sorry for him.
'I know our mother is turning in her grave. All I care about is my brother. I love you Rob.
'He's still my brother. Robert can't handle this. He just can't. He is used to hiding with his music. There is no music to hide off with.
'To come from nothing and achieve world acclaim as a status.
'To go full circle to come to nothing? That's got to be the most horrible thing anybody could endure.
'Especially to come from nothing,' he said.
Kelly's brother Carey tells how the singer tried to convince him to take the fall for the 2002 child porn sex tape he was accused of appearing in and say it was him
Jimmy Maynes says Kelly convinced him it was not him in the child porn video he was acquitted of in filming in 2002 by telling him the video was of his 'twin brother'. He does not have a twin brother but Maynes was instructed by Jive Records to go out and buy up all the copies of the tape that he could find
Carey Kelly, his brother brother, is less sympathetic. He told how R. Kelly tried to convince him to lie and say it was him in the 2002 child pornography tape he was acquitted on, and offered him $50,000 to do it.
The families of Kelly's two remaining girlfriends - Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage are also interviewed.
They say they will not stop until the can bring the girls home.
Kelly's fall from grace was among the most talked about of the year.
Kelly's ex-wife Andrea is interviewed again. She says manipulated her mentally and physically for years
Kelly's brother, Bruce, who is in prison, is also interviewed for the second part of the documentary. He says he still loves his brother and is there for him
In March, he appeared in a sit-down interview with Gayle King where he screamed, cried and protested his innocence.
Kelly has four indictments against him.
The first is a state case in Chicago alleging 10 counts of sexual abuse, which Illinois prosecutors filed in March last year.
Last July, he was hit with two federal indictments; one in New York and one in Illinois, which allege racketeering along with sexual assault and sexual exploitation.
In August this year, he was charged in a fourth case in Minnesota for allegedly having sex with an underage prostitute.
In December 2019, a judge in Chicago set a trial date for September next year for him but it is unclear which of his many cases it applies to.
He has pleaded not guilty across the board and believes he is the victim of a set-up from women looking to be paid.
New shocking details are revealed in Surviving R Kelly Part II
R. Kelly charged with bribing official for fake ID to marry Aaliyah when she was 15
Lifetime has announced that they will be airing a follow-up to their docu-series, 'Surviving R. Kelly' next month.
The network will debut a two-hour follow-up special, 'Surviving R Kelly: The Impact,' detailing the conversations and reactions ignited by the powerful documentary series which will be hosted by award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien.
Following the docu-series premiere, calls to sexual assault hotlines increased by 35%, and #MuteRKelly activists were galvanized to protest for R. Kelly’s record label to drop him and the Cook County attorney’s office indicted the R&B singer on 10 felony counts of aggravated sexual assault involving four victims and spanning over a decade, ultimately leading to Kelly’s arrest.
The documentary has reportedly be seen by more than 26 million people worldwide and has seen R. Kelly's fortune drastically reduced and radio stations across the globe have muted the star.
'Surviving R Kelly: The Impact' is set to premiere Saturday, May 4th at 10pm ET/PT.
According to theNew York Times, the Grammy winner has been accused of bribing an Illinois government employee on August 30, 1994 in order to obtain a fake ID for the underaged girl so he could marry her. Sources told the outlet that the ID was used to obtain a marriage license that listed her age as 18. The marriage was eventually annulled.
During an interview with Good Morning America, Kelly’s attorney Steven Greenberg claimed that the singer had no idea Aaliyah was underage when they wed. (Which seems crazy, considering he produced her debut album entitled Age Ain’t Nothin But a Number.)
“My understanding is that she did not claim to be 15, and in order to get married, she had to lie about her age,” Greenberg said at the time.
On Thursday, the lawyer suggested that the new indictment “does not appear to materially alter the landscape.”
R. Kelly is already facing federal charges for racketeering and has been charged in several other jurisdictions for sexual abuse.
R Kelly's 'Sex Slave' Joyselyn Speaks - Her Graphic Abuse
Joycelyn Savage has spoken out for the first time since a Patreon account under her name made allegations of abuse against the shamed star.
"I am truly tired of all the lies that they are saying about the man we love so much and our best friend, R. Kelly," Joycelyn said as she read a prepared statement from her phone for TMZ.
"It has been said that I have left him and that he has abused me and all kinds of nonsense. I have said before, none of that is true. It is a shame how they are treating him. It is so wrong on so many levels, and he does not deserve this. I am not going to be a part of the assassination of R. Kelly's name, music career, and character."
She continued, "How are we ever going to get a fair trial anywhere around the world with all these lies that are being told on him? Please free him and let him come home in peace."
Kelly is facing multiples charges across several states for the trafficking and sexual abuse of underage girls.
Joycelyn also denied that the Instagram and Patreon accounts which made headlines last month belong to her:
"That is not my Instagram. Someone is impersonating me. I just want everyone to know we still support him and would never betray him."
Joyselyn told fans that she plans on revealing new “chapters” about her life with R Kelly, 52, every day. According to her, she is “risking [her] life” because, many of the details she plans on disclosing are covered by non-disclosure agreements.
In her first Patreon blog post, Joyselyn explained how she first met R Kelly at a 2015 concert and how she thought he would help her become a model and a singer.
According to CNN:
Savage begins the post "Where It all Started" with her explanation of how she met Kelly at age 19 and he began to give her gifts, spend money on travel and promise her a music career.
A few months later, she posts, the singer started "giving [her] commands" to call him Master or Daddy and if she didn't obey him, he would raise his voice at her.
Savage also claims the singer was manipulative. "Robert likes to manipulate whoever he's was in the room with even down to his own assistant. He didn't care, everyone was in it for a check so they didn't care either," she said.
R. Kelly refuses to share jail cell: ‘I have too much going on’
Gayle King appeared on Desus & Mero and revealed that R. Kelly managed to spit on her during his now-infamous video with her, which saw the star unravel and throw a mega-tantrum.
"No one has done that to me. I never thought that he was gonna hurt me. But when he was [punching his hand in his fist], I thought he was going to accidentally hurt me. I was worried about that," she told them.
During his epic rant, spit flew from his mouth onto the journalist's lip
"You could tell he could hit hard. But he was spitting, it was flying all over the place, and his spit fell on my lip right here. I just sat there thinking, 'I don't wanna move.' If somebody does that to you, you can gracefully [wipe your lip], but I knew I didn't want to make any sudden movements because he was very amped up."
Kelly sat down with King to deny allegations that he sexually assaulted underage girls.
R. Kelly wants to hire Michael Jackson’s lawyer but needs help paying the fees
R. Kelly is fighting back against statement of noncompliance in missed court appearance.(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Singer R.Kelly, who was jailed last month at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago on child pornography charges and obstruction of justice, was recently written up for refusing to take in a cellmate.
Newly disclosed prison records reveal that the 52-year-old musician refused an order to take a cellmate at the special housing unit where he is being held, according to The Chicago Tribune. The downtown Chicago jail’s housing unit is said to be a more secure area for inmates, away from the jail’s general population.
Kelly reportedly responded to news of a possible cellmate by saying, “I was told I didn’t have to take a cellie and I have too much going on to worry about incident report,” the report says. An incident report stated that Investigators also cited that Kelly had a “poor attitude” throughout the investigation regarding the cellmate issue.
Kelly is currently being held without bail on a 13-count federal indictment in Chicago. It’s also alleged that in 2008, Kelly and two of his associates paid off witnesses and victims to change their stories in the disgraced singer’s previous child pornography trial in Cook County.
Earlier this month, Kelly’s lawyers filed a motion stating that the singer had been subjected to “draconian conditions” while jailed in the special housing unit. This past Thursday, lawyers filed a separate motion asking for Kelly’s “immediate release from solitary confinement,” The Tribune reports.
Kelly is also currently also facing a separate federal indictment in New York, accusing the singer of racketeering conspiracy. Kelly also faces four separate indictments in Cook County on charges of sexually assaulting one woman and sexually abusing three other women years ago. According to prosecutors, three of the alleged victims were said to have been underage at the time.
R. Kelly Lands In NJ For Federal Court Hearing {VIDEO}
R. Kelly's time may finally be up. The singer has been charged with 11 new more serious charges of sexual misconduct. (GettyImages)
R.Kelly is allegedly seeking more financial help from an Anonymous supporter to solicit the help of a new lawyer.
The hit songwriter pled not guilty to 11 felony sexual abuse counts after he was charged by Cook County prosecutors in Chicago in May. It is being reported that he is seeking legal council from Tom Mesereau, according to TMZ.
Mesereau was the legal genius who got Michael Jackson acquitted in 2005 for his child molestation case and Robert Blake acquitted for the murder of his wife in that same year.
Kelly is allegedly looking for someone new to represent him because he feels his current legal team attracts too much drama. TMZ recalls a time when his lawyer Steve Greenberg called Kelly’s accusers “disgruntled groupies.” However Greenberg says the news of Kelly looking for a new lawyer is “A complete load of crap.”
Kelly and Mesereau were said to have met on Wednesday for four hours in a federal prison in Illinois where Kelly remains in custody. But TMZ claims the singer hasn’t retained Mesereau as council just yet, because he’s broke.
Kelly’s team is said to be reaching out to anyone that may be able to help financially to help Kelly retain Mesereau. If he is able to land Mesereau, he’ll need millions of dollars. In his New York federal case his defense will need experts in forensics, sex trafficking, private investigators and more.
But Mesereau will have his hands full with this caseload. Kelly faces charges in Illinois and New York. He was also recently hit with two counts of underage prostitution in Minnesota. This particular charge claims Kelly allegedly had a minor strip for him in a hotel room in exchange for pay in 2001. The prosecutors are claiming.
Should Kelly get a new lawyer, they will have quite the caseload in front of them. Kelly allegedly paid a minor to strip for him in his hotel room in 2001, at which point prosecutors claim there was “sexual contact” but “no intercourse” between the two.
R. Kelly’s Publicist Quits After Revealing He Wouldn’t Leave His Daughter Around Singer
Disgraced singer R. Kelly has touched down in New Jersey, as the fallen r&b star is scheduled to appear before a judge in the Brooklyn Federal Court later on today.
Kelly's arrival was captured by news cameras and saw the star wearing a tan prison shirt and orange shoes while handcuffed, a far cry from his former lavish life.
But if Kelly was hoping to get his NY business over and done with today, one of his lawyers has revealed that the arraignment may be delayed as he was not able to find his client.
"I have spent the hours that followed his landing on the phone with the BOP at both New York MCC and Brooklyn MDC trying to locate my client, but no one would provide that information to me, even recognizing I am his attorney, instead directing me to bop.gov to find out where he would be," his lawyer Douglas Anton wrote to the judge.
R. Kelly Denied Bond; Must Remain In Jail Until Trial 100vw, 1250px" />R Kelly’s publicist stepped down for what he said are “personal reasons.”
Darrell Johnson, who has acted as the crisis manager for the embattled singer over the last seven months, said he would no longer be working for R. Kelly and was stepping down as of Monday night, according to CBS News. The resignation came hours after Johnson appeared on CBS This Morning, and told co-host Gayle King that he would not leave his daughter around R. Kelly under any circumstances. The interview began with Johnson speaking to the mental state of the Chicago R&B star who was indicted on multiple federal sex abuse crimes in Illinois and New York, all to which he pled not guilty. Johnson said R. Kelly is being held in solitary confinement and he was worried that the singer may hurt himself. “Mr. Kelly is a mess right now. He’s afraid, he’s scared, he’s isolated,” Johnson said. He then began to defend R. Kelly against allegations from multiple women over decades at a time and said that he would never call the accusers “liars”, but that they’ll have to bring the evidence to court and prove their case.
“I spent a lot of time with Mr. Kelly and I would still say my eye is trained. I haven’t seen anything that would cause me to be suspicious,” Johnson said before claiming that he’s seen R. Kelly’s two current girlfriends, Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage, come and go as they please with no security following them – in an attempt to debunk the allegations that R. Kelly has held women against their will.
Gayle King went on to ask Johnson would he leave his 20-something-year old daughter alone with R. Kelly, to which he quickly and sternly replied, “absolutely not.”
“I wouldn’t leave my daughter with anybody that’s accused of pedophelia,” Johnson said, leaving the CBS anchors to ask again for clarification. Johnson then doubled down on his stance. “I would not leave my daughter with anyone that’s accused of being a pedophile.”
Monday night Johnson told CBS that he was stepping down. “I step down as crisis manager for personal reasons. Mr. Kelly is in good hands with Mr. Greenberg,” Johnson said, referring to Steve Greenberg, the heads of R. Kelly’s legal team in Chicago.
Meanwhile, R. Kelly’s girlfriend Azriel Clary, whose parents have been very vocal about wanting her to leave the singer, took to Instagram to respond to speculation that she was going out and partying, feeling “free” while the singer is locked up. She said she’s always had a cell phone and social media and that she is in love with R. Kelly. “I am happy with R. Kelly so let me live my f*cking life.”
R. Kelly reportedly paid thousands for the return of sex tapes missing from his collection
Disgraced singer R. Kelly has been denied bond and will now have to remain behind bars until his upcoming trial.
Kelly appeared in court on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges from an indictment released in Illinois last week. Kelly is also accused of paying thousands of dollars to recover videotapes of himself having sex with teenage girls.
Despite his attorneys pleading to the judge to allow Kelly out on bond as he has no money to flee the country, Assistant US Attorney Angel Krull argued that Kelly was "an extreme danger to the community, especially to minor girls" as well as a flight risk.
"We thought we'd get him out, but the judge saw it otherwise, and we respect his ruling," Greenberg told reporters after the hearing.
There may be more bad news for Kelly as the young lady who was at the center of the 2008 child pornography trial is reportedly ready to testify against the star in the upcoming trial. The woman, now in her 30s, is cooperating with federal investigators according to her lawyers
R. Kelly 'is ARRESTED in Chicago on federal sex trafficking, child pornography and obstruction of justice charges - just a month after pleading not guilty to 11 counts of sexual assault' R&B singer R. Kelly covers his mouth as he speaks to members of his entourage as he leaves the Leighton Criminal Courts Building (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Following R. Kelly’s arrest on federal charges of sex trafficking comes word that he paid thousands of dollars to recover videotapes of himself having sex with teenage girls.
Kelly was arrested in Chicago Thursday night and is expected to remain in custody until Tuesday.
As previously reported, the embattled singer is facing two separate federal grand jury indictments in Illinois and New York. The U.S. attorney spokesman Joseph Fitzpatrick has told the Associated Press that the 13-count indictment includes charges of child pornography, enticement of a minor and obstruction of justice.
Kelly is accused of recruiting young women for sex and allegedly convinced folks on his team to conceal his sexual encounters with teens. He reportedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying back several missing explicit videotapes of his alleged victims.
Prosecutors say Kelly videotaped himself having sex with at least four girls under the age of 18 beginning in 1998. Years later, when the R&B hitmaker discovered some of the tapes were missing from his “collection,” he began paying “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to several people to recover them, the indictment says.
Kelly then directed those same people to take polygraph tests to confirm that they had returned all copies of the tapes.
The Illinois indictment has charged Kelly with “one count of conspiracy to receive child pornography, two counts of receiving child pornography, four counts of producing child pornography, five counts of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice,” reports CNN.
The New York indictment accuses him of sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, forced labor and trafficking women and girls from 1999 to the present.
NBC4 New York reported that R. Kelly was picked up by Homeland Security NYPD Investigation agents and NYPD Public Safety Task Force, and is expected to be taken to New York. However, during his brief appearance in a Chicago federal court on Friday, the judge delayed a decision on whether Kelly should be taken to New York to face charges until he is arraigned in Chicago, according to the CNN report.
“R. Kelly’s Enterprise was not only engaged in music; as alleged, for two decades the enterprise at the direction of R. Kelly preyed upon young women and teenagers whose dreams of meeting a superstar, soon turned into a nightmare of rape, child pornography, and forced labor. The musician turned predator allegedly used his stardom to coax some victims into nefarious sex acts while certain members of his enterprise calculatingly facilitated the aberrant conduct,” Homeland Security Special Agent-in-Charge Angel Melendez said in a statement.
R. Kelly has been accused of multiple crimes against women over the past 20 years. He has vehemently denied all present and past allegations of sexual misconduct which has been leveled against him
Comment by Danny Ortiz on February 3, 2020 at 3:58am
He didn’t do notting!
Comment by stephen myers on February 2, 2020 at 12:45pm
All because he couldn't control his ding dong, if Black men were like other races and took sex serious instead of laying up with all these whores you wouldn't have all the chaos and destruction in Black society, but remain the dumb horney dogs that you are, whites LOL at you fools who never learn.
Gtfoh ....b**** ...with your lying ass i ciess bow that the money is done you being who you really are
Comment by Shelton Minor on January 31, 2020 at 4:11pm
Sadly there are women somewhere that are completely aware of what this man has done and STILL made a decision to be involved with a man just like that or are waiting in line to be the next so who do we blame?
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R&B singer R. Kelly covers his mouth as he speaks to members of his entourage as he leaves the Leighton Criminal Courts Building (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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