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R Kelly accused of fraudulently selling his music rights after losing sex abuse litigation

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R Kelly has been accused of fraudulently selling his music rights to a childhood friend in order to avoid that intellectual property from being used to cover the damages he was ordered to pay as a result of civil litigation over allegations of sexual abuse.The musician was sued by Heather Williams in February 2019, a month after the screening of the ‘Surviving R Kelly’ programme that prompted various new criminal investigations into the many allegations of sexual abuse that had been made against the star over the years.Those criminal investigations, of course, have resulted in two high profile trials to date, in both Chicago and New York.

In the former he was found guilty of enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity and of filming that abuse. In the latter he was found guilty of running a criminal enterprise in order to access and abuse teenagers and women.Williams alleged that she first met Kelly in 1998 when she was sixteen and initially agreed to spend time with him at his studio because he promised to put her in a music video.

However the video never happened and instead they began a sexual relationship which Williams subsequently recognised as sexual abuse, hence the legal action in 2019.The musician failed to properly defend himself in the case, resulting in Williams winning by default in February 2020.

And the following month the court awarded her $4 million in damages.According to a new legal filing with the courts in Illinois, when Williams first sued Kelly in 2019 – and when she was awarded the damages in 2020 – the musician still had an interest in his songs catalogue.

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