R. Kelly: Last News

a 30-year prison sentence in June 2022.Assistant US Attorney Kayla Bensing said Kelly’s network of aides and employees were part of the singer’s “system in place that lured young people in to his orbit” before he “took over their lives.”At trial, several women testified that they were ordered to sign nondisclosure forms and were subjected to threats and punishments such as violent spankings if they broke what one referred to as “Rob’s rules.”Some of the judges questioned whether the employees knew about Kelly’s illegal activities with teenage girls.“What evidence is there that staff who arranged these things knew that they were underage? asked Circuit Judge Denny Chin.The prosecutor responded by citing numerous instances of testimony, including one in which a woman testified that she told a member of Kelly’s entourage that she was 16 when he asked her age. Others knew some girls were not yet 18 because they booked flights for them and the girls had to provide their birth dates, she noted.“So this is all evidence that the jury was entitled to infer that Kelly’s inner circle knew what was going on.

sexually abuse girls and young women.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled Wednesday after hearing arguments last March.The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling R&B songwriter was convicted in 2021 in Brooklyn federal court of multiple charges, including racketeering and sex trafficking.Attorney Jennifer Bonjean, representing R.

The trailer for the film dropped Sunday. In it, Joann shares how her father’s sex crimes convictions turned her world upside down. “Nobody wants to be the child of the father that is out here hurting women and children,” Joann said.

to TMZ, Christmas Day is still special for some of the most infamous faces behind bars, including reality stars, musicians and one disgraced former producer. From Cornish hens to pies, here’s a run down of what some celebrity inmates had on Christmas Day 2023. Kelly, 56, was found guilty of sex trafficking, racketeering, and in 2022, the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer was convicted of three child pornography charges and three charges of enticing a minor.

R. Kelly has been ordered to pay at least $309,068.18 in restitution to two of his victims. Anne M.

Ann M. Donnelly, a federal district judge for the Eastern District of New York, ruled Friday that the seizure of $27,828 from R.

A federal prosecutor and the defense attorney for Robert Sylvester Kelly made their opening statements as his second federal trial began in Chicago on Wednesday. Kelly currently faces charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice alongside two additional defendants, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown. “The defendant… had sex with multiple children,” Assistant United States Attorney Jason Julien told the jury today, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

R. Kelly in a high-profile child porn case, prosecutors will get a second crack at the disgraced Grammy winner.The 55-year-old R&B singer is slated to appear in federal court in Chicago on Monday to begin what in many ways is a do-over of his 2008 state trial, where shocking video he took of himself sexually assaulting and urinating on a 14-year-old girl was prosecutors’ “Exhibit 1.” However, this time around, the victim is expected to testify.

“Love and Joy of Robert.”The 26-year-old mother-to-be writes in her tiny tell-all — only 11 pages and out Friday on Amazon — that she found out she was expecting months after disgraced R&B singer-songwriter Robert Sylvester Kelly sent an engagement ring to her home, the day after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking. “Months later, I began expecting severe morning sickness and was unsure what was wrong with my body. I thought I had contracted COVID-19, but the most amazing news of all was that I was expecting,” Savage writes in the book.

R. Kelly was been removed from suicide watch at Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) Brooklyn on Tuesday.

Porsha Williams, 40, opened up about what happened when she met R. Kelly, 54, when she was just 25-years-old in a new interview with People, published on Wednesday November 17. The RHOA star said she wanted to “help anyone who’s been hurt by him,” and she wanted investigators to know about her experience with singer, who was convicted of sex-trafficking and racketeering on September 27.

R. Kelly, 54, will “likely” spend the rest of his life in jail after being convicted on eight counts of sex trafficking and one racketeering charge on Sept. 27 during his federal trial in New York. The disgraced R&B singer faces a minimum of 10 years behind bars and a maximum of life imprisonment along with registration as a sex offender. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on May 4, 2022.

R. Kelly, 54, is currently facing decades in prison after being found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering charges on Sept. 27. The “I Believe I Can Fly” singer was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn for his crimes, which were infamously detailed in the 2019 Lifetime documentary Surviving R. Kelly. He will be sentenced to prison on May 4, 2022, and thus will be leaving behind his three children, Joann Kelly, 23, Jay Kelly, 21, and Robert Kelly Jr., 19. Kelly shares all of his children with ex-wife Andrea “Drea” Kelly, 47, whom he was married to from 1996 to 2009.

With news coming in that R. Kelly, 54, was found guilty on eight counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering, some of the women who had brought accusations against the singer rejoiced at the fact that he was being brought to justice. Many took to their social media to express their satisfaction with the ruling, which could see Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, facing decades in prison.

in the trial of R. Kelly took the witness stand Wednesday and told the court that the singing star once said “that’s good” when she told him she was a 16-year-old virgin — and that she kept a shirt that he had he used to clean himself after sex.

Nick Cannon and controversy reunited on Monday when the Masked Singer star stopped by The Breakfast Club. During the Aug. 9 broadcast, which was a week after The Lox and Dispet’s epic Verzuz battle — one that reestablished Jadakiss as a legend in the eyes of many — Nick, 40, was asked who could go head-to-head, hits-for-hits, with his ex-wife, Mariah Carey. “Who could go against Mariah? Sh-t, I don’t think any—” “They were saying Mary [J. Blige],” interjected Charlamagne Tha God. But, Nick. after acknowledging he was about to “open up this can” of worms, said there was only person “who has the level of talent and hits” as Mariah: R. Kelly.