R. Kelly

An R. Kelly fan, Christopher Gunn, has been charged with threatening the federal prosecutors who won a conviction against the fallen R&B star at his ...

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New York authorities have arrested an R. Kelly fan and charged him with threatening three federal prosecutors who helped convict the disgraced R&B singer ...

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An Illinois man has been arrested on charges he threatened the prosecutors who won the conviction of R. Kelly on sex trafficking charges, ...

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Christopher Gunn made the threats in a video he posted to YouTube, prosecutors said.

Gunn has frequently posted about the trial on his YouTube channel, with numerous videos titled "R Kelly Propaganda." He is due to be sentenced on Wednesday and faces decades in prison. The charge stems from a video prosecutors say Gunn posted to his YouTube channel "DeBoSki Gunn" in October 2021. According to the documents, investigators identified eight such transactions, including payments with messages saying "30 rounds on the haters" and "30 rounds.. The complaint also describes how Gunn allegedly received money through Cash App "in relation to the Kelly matter" between February 2021 and June 2022. A representative for the NYPD did not immediately respond to questions regarding the arrest.

An R. Kelly fan, who was apparently extreme in his support, is facing charges after threatening to “storm” the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, N.Y., ...

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An R. Kelly “superfan” has been arrested in the Chicago area on federal charges alleging he threatened victims after the singer's trial and promised to ...

A Bureau of Prisons official is suspected of accessing Kelly’s emails and phone calls while in custody, and leaking them to a different YouTube personality. NOTE: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Gunn was accused of threatening victims from R. Kelly’s criminal trial. The complaint also alleged that Gunn has been accepting payments on CashApp from people who make comments like “30 rounds.. Gunn, who also goes by the name “DeBoSki,” was arrested here Saturday and appeared Monday afternoon in Chicago’s federal courthouse, where a judge ordered him held in custody pending a detention hearing later this week. Gunn’s YouTube channel, which was still publicly available on Monday, features dozens of videos about Kelly’s case. “We’re going to storm they office.

Alleged sex slave Joycelyn Savage revealed she is engaged to R. Kelly ahead of his sentencing for sex crimes in New York.

I respectfully ask that the Court take my words into consideration when sentencing Robert. He is a great man, with a great heart and deserves to be home with his loved ones who are ready to support him.” “It’s the complete opposite of who he is and what my relationship is like with Robert.” “I’m a grown woman and can speak for myself, which is why I wanted to provide this letter to the court. “My relationship with Robert is amazing,” she wrote. The Robert I know is very sweet, gentle, and kind. Savage attempted to portray the incarcerated artist in a positive light.

As R. Kelly faces decades in prison for sex trafficking charges, newly unsealed court documents reveal graphic details about the R&B singer's own childhood ...

"I'm a grown woman, and can speak for myself which is why I wanted to provide this letter to the court." CNN has reached out to an attorney for Kelly for comment. "Typically after a trial, it's tougher for a defendant to get his recommended sentencing range," Honig said. Prosecutors believe a voice narrating the video is Gunn's, and he says, "That's where they at. His earliest memories were watching his mom perform as a singer in a band called "Six Pack," and he would often accompany her to McDonald's where she would drink coffee and they would share a pastry. He had never met his father and described his mother's death as the most tragic event of his life, saying he would go to McDonald's frequently to smell the coffee and remember her, according to a letter filed by Renee Sorrentino, a clinical assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

Here is everything you need to know about the singer's career and the allegations brought against him over the years.

Kelly was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in September 2021 after just two days of jury deliberations. He was later arrested in July and charged with sex trafficking offences including child abuse images and obstruction of justice. He was charged with 21 counts of making child sexual abuse videos involving various sexual acts in June 2002, but was acquitted on all counts following trial in 2008.

The former R&B singer R. Kelly, who had long escaped criminal penalties despite decades of sexual misconduct allegations, will face sentencing on Wednesday ...

Federal prosecutors wrote in their sentencing letter that Mr. Kelly has shown no remorse and for decades, “exhibited a callous disregard” for the effects of his abuse on victims. “He committed these crimes using his fame and stardom as both a shield, which prevented close scrutiny or condemnation of his actions,” prosecutors wrote. He was first accused of having sex with underage girls in the 1990s, and his illegal marriage to the singer Aaliyah in 1994, who was 15 at the time, prompted questions about his behavior. Mr. Kelly said in a 2016 interview with GQ that he was sexually abused while growing up. And Mr. Kelly himself may make public statements for the first time, after declining to take the stand at his trial. They’re human beings,” Nadia Shihata, an assistant U.S. attorney, said at the end of the trial. “The defendant’s victims aren’t groupies or gold diggers. He was charged with racketeering and violating an anti-sex trafficking law known as the Mann Act. The government said in response, however, that the singer “continues to avoid any acknowledgment of the seriousness of his conduct or the harm that he caused,” and that he had made “materially false statements.” Mr. Kelly “is willing to lie to receive a more lenient sentence,” prosecutors wrote. “And a sword, which gave him access to wealth and a network of enablers to facilitate his crimes, and an adoring fan base from which to cull his victims.” Mr. Kelly, 55, could spend the rest of his life in prison, and federal prosecutors have asked for a sentence “in excess of 25 years.” Federal prosecutors have asked for a sentence “in excess of 25 years” after the former R&B artist was convicted of racketeering and other crimes in New York last year.

He will likely be transferred after being sentenced to Chicago, where he faces an August trial on child pornography and obstruction charges. Kelly also faces ...

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R. Kelly is being sentenced in a sex trafficking case that could put him behind bars for years.

Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. “The record shows that Jane’s parents directed Jane to lie to the defendant about her age and then encouraged her to seduce him,” the papers say. Kelly’s lawyers also said it was wrong to assert he should get more time because he sexually abused one of his victims — referred to in court as “Jane” — after her parents innocently entrusted him to help her with her musical career. The accusers alleged 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.” Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22. The jury convicted the “I Believe I Can Fly” hitmaker after hearing about how he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise.

R. Kelly's musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children.

A separate indictment filed in the Eastern District of New York included charges of racketeering, kidnapping, forced labor and the sexual exploitation of a child. — March 21, 2012: Kelly announced he is reviving his video series, “Trapped in the Closet.” The project begins as five videos for his dramatic cliffhanger songs in 2007, and eventually grows to several dozen musical chapters dealing with a web of sexual deceit. — March 6, 2019: CBS airs interview in which Kelly vehemently denied the sexual abuse charges against him. — July 17, 2017: BuzzFeed reports on parents’ claims that Kelly brainwashed their daughters and was keeping them in an abusive “cult.” One woman says she was with Kelly willingly. — Jan. 3, 2019: Lifetime airs the documentary “Surviving R. Kelly,” which revisited old allegations against him and brought new ones into the spotlight. — November 1996: R. Kelly releases his third album, “R. Kelly.” A month later, he incorporates Rockland Records. His song “I Believe I Can Fly,” from the “Space Jam” soundtrack, peaks at No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart. At the time, the girl and her parents denies she was having sex with Kelly. — November 1993: His album “12 Play” is released and eventually sells more than 5 million copies. A spokesman claims the singer is not having financial trouble. A jury found Kelly guilty in September of sex trafficking charges. Music executive Wayne Williams of Jive Records discovers Kelly singing at a barbecue that summer. R. Kelly’s musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children.

A lawyer for R. Kelly asked a federal judge to sentence him to no more than 10 years in prison. Prosecutors have asked for at least 25 years.

On one occasion, Kelly's mother stabbed him in the arm with a knife that she was threatening him and his brother with, according to the sentencing memo. Kelly's landlord and a family friend also sexually abused him, according to the memo. He is considered the greatest living R&B singer and has earned multiple Grammy awards. Witnesses testified that he took her as his child bride so he could get her access to an abortion without parental consent. "Defendant's convictions involve four victims who describe conduct that is simply not deserving of a de facto life sentence." The victims testified they were sexually abused, beaten, and blackmailed.

R&B star R. Kelly faces the possibility of a quarter century or more in prison when he is sentenced Wednesday in a federal sex trafficking case in New York, ...

Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. “The record shows that Jane’s parents directed Jane to lie to the defendant about her age and then encouraged her to seduce him,” the papers say. Kelly’s lawyers also said it was wrong to assert he should get more time because he sexually abused one of his victims — referred to in court as “Jane” — after her parents innocently entrusted him to help her with her musical career. The accusers alleged 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.” Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22. The jury convicted the “I Believe I Can Fly” hitmaker after hearing about how he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise.

R. Kelly is being sentenced in a sex trafficking case that could put him behind bars for years.

Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. “The record shows that Jane’s parents directed Jane to lie to the defendant about her age and then encouraged her to seduce him,” the papers say. Kelly’s lawyers also said it was wrong to assert he should get more time because he sexually abused one of his victims — referred to in court as “Jane” — after her parents innocently entrusted him to help her with her musical career. The accusers alleged 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.” Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22. The jury convicted the “I Believe I Can Fly” hitmaker after hearing about how he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise.

R. Kelly's musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children.

A separate indictment filed in the Eastern District of New York included charges of racketeering, kidnapping, forced labor and the sexual exploitation of a child. — March 21, 2012: Kelly announced he is reviving his video series, “Trapped in the Closet.” The project begins as five videos for his dramatic cliffhanger songs in 2007, and eventually grows to several dozen musical chapters dealing with a web of sexual deceit. — March 6, 2019: CBS airs interview in which Kelly vehemently denied the sexual abuse charges against him. — July 17, 2017: BuzzFeed reports on parents’ claims that Kelly brainwashed their daughters and was keeping them in an abusive “cult.” One woman says she was with Kelly willingly. — Jan. 3, 2019: Lifetime airs the documentary “Surviving R. Kelly,” which revisited old allegations against him and brought new ones into the spotlight. — November 1996: R. Kelly releases his third album, “R. Kelly.” A month later, he incorporates Rockland Records. His song “I Believe I Can Fly,” from the “Space Jam” soundtrack, peaks at No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart. At the time, the girl and her parents denies she was having sex with Kelly. — November 1993: His album “12 Play” is released and eventually sells more than 5 million copies. A spokesman claims the singer is not having financial trouble. A jury found Kelly guilty in September of sex trafficking charges. Music executive Wayne Williams of Jive Records discovers Kelly singing at a barbecue that summer. R. Kelly's musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children.

R. Kelly's musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children.

A separate indictment filed in the Eastern District of New York included charges of racketeering, kidnapping, forced labor and the sexual exploitation of a child. — March 21, 2012: Kelly announced he is reviving his video series, “Trapped in the Closet.” The project begins as five videos for his dramatic cliffhanger songs in 2007, and eventually grows to several dozen musical chapters dealing with a web of sexual deceit. — March 6, 2019: CBS airs interview in which Kelly vehemently denied the sexual abuse charges against him. — July 17, 2017: BuzzFeed reports on parents’ claims that Kelly brainwashed their daughters and was keeping them in an abusive “cult.” One woman says she was with Kelly willingly. — Jan. 3, 2019: Lifetime airs the documentary “Surviving R. Kelly,” which revisited old allegations against him and brought new ones into the spotlight. — November 1996: R. Kelly releases his third album, “R. Kelly.” A month later, he incorporates Rockland Records. His song “I Believe I Can Fly,” from the “Space Jam” soundtrack, peaks at No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart. At the time, the girl and her parents denies she was having sex with Kelly. A spokesman claims the singer is not having financial trouble. — November 1993: His album “12 Play” is released and eventually sells more than 5 million copies. A jury found Kelly guilty in September of sex trafficking charges. Music executive Wayne Williams of Jive Records discovers Kelly singing at a barbecue that summer. R. Kelly's musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children.

R. Kelly is being sentenced in a sex trafficking case that could put him behind bars for years.

Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. “The record shows that Jane’s parents directed Jane to lie to the defendant about her age and then encouraged her to seduce him,” the papers say. Kelly’s lawyers also said it was wrong to assert he should get more time because he sexually abused one of his victims — referred to in court as “Jane” — after her parents innocently entrusted him to help her with her musical career. The accusers alleged 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.” Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22. The jury convicted the “I Believe I Can Fly” hitmaker after hearing about how he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise.

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R. Kelly is being sentenced in a sex trafficking case that could put him behind bars for years.

Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. “The record shows that Jane’s parents directed Jane to lie to the defendant about her age and then encouraged her to seduce him,” the papers say. Kelly’s lawyers also said it was wrong to assert he should get more time because he sexually abused one of his victims — referred to in court as “Jane” — after her parents innocently entrusted him to help her with her musical career. The accusers alleged 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.” Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22. The jury convicted the “I Believe I Can Fly” hitmaker after hearing about how he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise.

R. Kelly is being sentenced in a sex trafficking case that could put him behind bars for years.

Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. Allegations that Kelly abused young girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s. “He's strong, and we are going to get through this,” defense lawyer Jennifer Bonjean said on her way into court. Kelly’s lawyers also said it was wrong to assert he should get more time because he sexually abused one of his victims — referred to in court as “Jane” — after her parents innocently entrusted him to help her with her musical career. He was sued in 1997 by a woman who alleged sexual battery and sexual harassment while she was a minor, and he later faced criminal child pornography charges related to a different girl in Chicago. A jury there acquitted him in 2008, and he settled the lawsuit. The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling hitmaker is known for work including the 1996 hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Trapped in the Closet,” a multi-part tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue.

Kelly is one of the most prominent figures tried on sex charges during the #MeToo movement, with accusations dating back decades.

Though they deny the charges, prosecutors in the September 2021 trial said Kelly "used [his] inner circle as his means to a criminal end". At the time, acting US attorney Jacquelyn Kasulis said the guilty verdict "forever brands R Kelly as a predator, who used his fame and fortune to prey on the young, the vulnerable and the voiceless for his own sexual gratification". Prosecutors said Kelly took advantage of his fame and charisma to recruit victims, including some plucked from crowds at his concerts, with the aid of people in his entourage. Kelly was facing one count of racketeering – essentially, running a criminal enterprise – and eight counts of violating the Mann Act, which makes it illegal to take people across state lines for the purposes of prostitution. Back in September 2021, Kelly was found guilty of all charges in his sex trafficking trial in New York. When a jury found R&B superstar R Kelly guilty on all counts of sex trafficking, it was seen as a signature moment of the #MeToo movement.

US singer R Kelly is due to be sentenced on counts of racketeering and sex-trafficking, with further charges relating to bribery and forced labour.

Kelly was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in September 2021 after just two days of jury deliberations. He was later arrested in July and charged with sex trafficking offences including child abuse images and obstruction of justice. He was charged with 21 counts of making child sexual abuse videos involving various sexual acts in June 2002, but was acquitted on all counts following trial in 2008.

NEW YORK (AP) — Through tears and anger, R. Kelly's accusers told a court Wednesday he...

Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. Victims “have sought to be heard and acknowledged,” another one of his accusers said at his sentencing. It’s a case about violence, cruelty and control,” U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly told Kelly on Wednesday. The women who spoke at Kelly's sentencing were identified only by first names or pseudonyms. The Grammy-winning, multi-platinum-selling songwriter was convicted last year of racketeering and sex trafficking at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had previously wondered if their stories were being ignored because they were Black women. He beat child pornography charges in Chicago in 2008, when a jury acquitted him.

Nine months after his convictions on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly will be sentenced to up to life in prison on ...

He pleaded not guilty to the charges in 2020. Kelly also owes money to the IRS and is behind on child-support payments. More than $1 million of the royalties were seized in 2020 by his former landlord, Midwest Commercial Funding, after he stopped paying rent on his Chicago studio. However, the money has been promised to a line of collectors, according to an Illinois appeals court document. For example, witnesses testified that the ’90s hitmaker fraudulently married R&B singer Aaliyah, who was 15 and believed to be pregnant at the time, by bribing a government official to give her a fake ID that claimed she was an adult. Kelley faces between 10 years, which is the mandatory minimum sentencing, to life in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking.

The R&B singer, 55, could spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of decades of psychological and sexual abuse.

Mr. Kelly will receive his prison term on Wednesday; he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. Within a year, several of his concerts were canceled and Time’s Up, the prominent anti-harassment charity, released an open letter asking corporations that had ties to the singer to end them. Jurors said that they began to have doubts after the girl at the center of the case declined to testify. The defense lawyers had “filed so many motions that they helped delay the start of the trial for six years,” The New York Times reported. Federal prosecutors wrote in their sentencing letter that Mr. Kelly has shown no remorse and for decades, “exhibited a callous disregard” for the effects of his abuse on victims. The ex-manager said he had to bribe an Illinois government employee to obtain a fake ID for Aaliyah that showed she was 18. He was first accused of having sex with underage girls in the 1990s, and his illegal marriage to the singer Aaliyah in 1994, who was 15 at the time, prompted questions about his behavior. Kelly, who wore black eyeglasses and a khaki shirt, appeared to take notes as Donnelly addressed the court. As the hearing proceeds, R. Kelly is is sitting between his attorneys while Donnelly reads through the sentencing guidelines and discusses disputes between prosecutors and the defense team. And Mr. Kelly himself may make public statements for the first time, after declining to take the stand at his trial. Mr. Kelly said in a 2016 interview with GQ that he was sexually abused while growing up. “He committed these crimes using his fame and stardom as both a shield, which prevented close scrutiny or condemnation of his actions,” prosecutors wrote.

The R&B star was convicted in New York last year of sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, sex trafficking and racketeering.

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The R&B singer, 55, had been found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering involving women, girls and boys.

In federal court in Chicago, he is charged with enticement of a minor, possession of child abuse images and obstruction of justice. Kelly’s case attracted attention in light of the #MeToo movement, in which powerful men have been held to account for sexual misconduct and sexual assault. While prosecutors sought a minimum 25-year term, Kelly’s defence pushed for a sentence of 10 years or less. At the trial, victims had described how Kelly, real name Robert Sylvester Kelly, subjected them to perverse and sadistic whims when they were underage. “We are no longer the preyed-upon individuals we once were.” You taught them that love is enslavement and violence.”

NUEVA YORK (AP) — El astro del R&B R. Kelly enfrenta la posibilidad de pasar un cuarto de siglo o más en prisión cuando sea sentenciado el miércoles en un.

“El registro muestra que los padres de Jane le ordenaron a Jane que le mintiera al acusado sobre su edad y luego la animaron a seducirlo”, dicen los documentos. Los abogados de Kelly también dijeron que era incorrecto afirmar que debería recibir más tiempo en prisión porque abusó sexualmente de una de sus víctimas — mencionada en la corte con el nombre genérico de “Jane” — después de que sus padres inocentemente le confiaron que la ayudara con su carrera musical. Un jurado encontró al cantante de 55 años culpable de extorsión y otros cargos el año pasado en un juicio que fue visto como un momento clave en la era del movimiento #MeToo.

El cantante de R&B R. Kelly fue sentenciado a 30 años de prisión tras ser condenado por delincuencia organizada y tráfico sexual.

Vamos a atacar la oficina", diciendo los nombres de cada uno de los tres fiscales. Sus primeros recuerdos eran ver a su madre actuar como cantante en una banda llamada "Six Pack", y a menudo la acompañaba a McDonald's, donde ella tomaba café y compartían un pastel. Según la orden de arresto, Gunn publicó un video en su canal de YouTube en octubre, poco después de que Kelly fuera declarado culpable, que mostraba una imagen de la Oficina del fiscal deferal del Distrito Este de Nueva York, donde trabajan las mujeres. Las transacciones incluyeron pagos por US$20 con descripciones que decían "30 rondas... El juicio federal de cinco semanas en Brooklyn incluyó el testimonio de testigos que dijeron que Kelly abusó sexual y físicamente de ellas. En los nueve meses desde su condena, Kelly reemplazó a todo su equipo legal con Jennifer Bonjean y su firma. Un jurado condenó a Kelly en septiembre pasado por nueve cargos, incluido un cargo de extorsión y ocho cargos de violaciones de la Ley Mann, una ley de tráfico sexual. "Pero al menos es hora de que el Sr. Kelly rinda cuentas". Los abogados defensores y los fiscales discutieron el miércoles en la corte sobre si Kelly podría pagar una multa. Kelly, cuyo nombre completo es Robert Sylvester Kelly, vestía un uniforme de prisión color canela, anteojos de montura oscura y una máscara negra en la audiencia del miércoles, a la que también asistieron víctimas del caso. "Ahora estamos preparados para apelar este recurso". La defensa dijo que está "muy cerca de ser indigente" y no pudo.

A judge sentenced R. Kelly to 30 years in prison Wednesday after a jury found him guilty on nine counts of sex trafficking and racketeering.

"I was afraid, naive and didn’t know to handle the situation," she said, so she didn’t speak up at the time. Kelly did not take the stand during his trial. Allegations that Kelly abused young girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s. A third woman, sobbing and sniffling as she spoke, said Kelly’s conviction restored her faith in the legal system. Victims “have sought to be heard and acknowledged,” she said. Prosecutors filed a memo June 8 stating that Kelly deserves at least 25 years behind bars for sexually abusing women and girls. A jury of seven men and five women found the 55-year-old guilty on Sept. 27, after just two days of deliberations. The charges were based on an argument that Kelly's entourage of managers and aides helped the singer meet girls and keep them obedient and quiet. These actions amounted to a criminal enterprise under federal laws, according to U.S. attorneys. It’s a case about violence, cruelty and control," Donnelly told him. "Do you remember that?” A New York federal judge has sentenced R&B superstar R. Kelly to 30 years in prison after he was found guilty of nine counts of sex trafficking and racketeering in September.

El cantante de R&B, conocido por su éxito "I Believe I Can Fly", fue hallado culpable de extorsión y muchos otros cargos de tráfico sexual.

Breon continuó diciendo que la sentencia fue una "victoria es de [los sobrevivientes], para la justicia y para los futuros sobrevivientes de agresión sexual. “Hace unos momentos, R. Kelly fue sentenciado a 30 años de prisión”, dijo Peace. "Este es un resultado significativo para todas las víctimas de R.Kelly y especialmente para los sobrevivientes que testificaron con tanta valentía sobre el horrible y sádico abuso que soportaron. “Es fuerte y vamos a superar esto”, dijo la abogada defensora Jennifer Bonjean camino a la corte. El director ejecutivo adjunto de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional (HSI, por sus siglas en inglés), Steve Francis, compartió sentimientos similares y dijo que "la sentencia de hoy es una victoria que pertenece a las víctimas". Ella dijo que estaba traumatizada para siempre por su experiencia adolescente con él. Los abogados de Kelly también dijeron que era incorrecto afirmar que debería obtener más tiempo porque abusó sexualmente de una de sus víctimas, a la que en la corte se refirió como "Jane", después de que sus padres inocentemente le confiaron que la ayudara con su carrera musical. Un memorando anterior de la defensa sugirió que los argumentos de los fiscales para una sentencia más alta se excedieron al afirmar falsamente que Kelly participó en el pago de un soborno a un funcionario del gobierno para facilitar el matrimonio ilegal. Hubo testimonios de que Kelly le dio herpes a varios acusadores sin revelar que tenía una ETS, obligó a un adolescente a unirse a él para tener relaciones sexuales con una chica desnuda que emergió de debajo de un ring de boxeo en su garaje, y grabó un video vergonzoso de una víctima que la muestra con heces en su rostro como castigo por romper sus reglas. La indignación por la conducta sexual inapropiada de Kelly con mujeres jóvenes y menores fue alimentada en parte por la serie documental ampliamente vista "Surviving R. Kelly", que dio voz a los acusadores que se preguntaban si sus historias fueron ignoradas anteriormente porque eran mujeres afroamericanas. Después de ser sentenciado a tres décadas en la cárcel, la abogada de Kelly, Jennifer Bonjean, dijo a la prensa que planean apelar y agregó que su cliente está bien después de la sentencia, pero que "obviamente fue un día difícil". Una tercera mujer, que sollozaba y sollozaba mientras hablaba, dijo que la condena de Kelly renovó su confianza en el sistema legal. Entre lágrimas e ira, las acusadoras de R. Kelly dijeron a la corte el miércoles que él se había aprovechado de ellas y engañado a sus fanáticos, mientras que la estrella caída de R&B esperaba la sentencia por su condena federal por tráfico sexual.

Los logros musicales de R. Kelly han estado acompañados por una larga historia de acusaciones de abusos sexuales.

— 3 de enero de 2019: Lifetime transmite “Surviving R. Kelly”, una revisión a las viejas acusaciones en su contra y nuevas acusaciones. — 8 de febrero de 2002: El diario Chicago Sun-Times reporta que recibió un video en el que Kelly tiene sexo con una menor de edad y que la policía comenzó a investigar acusaciones relacionadas tres años antes. Las autoridades de Illinois detienen a Kelly luego que éste le dice a un juez que no puede pagar 161.000 dólares en pensión atrasada para sus hijos. Una acusación federal independiente en Nueva York incluye cargos de asociación delictuosa. Los cargos son retirados después de que un juez señaló que la policía no tenía una orden judicial. Apple y Pandora dejan de promover su música. Se habla de llevarla a Broadway. — Noviembre 1993: Su álbum “12 Play” sale y con el tiempo logra vender más de 5 millones de copias. El caso se resuelve fuera de la corte, según reportes. El martrimonio es anulado meses más tarde debido a la edad de Aaliyah. Se casa con la bailarina de 22 años Andrea Lee, con quien tiene tres hijos: Joanne, Jaya y Robert Jr. Si bien Kelly, cuyo nombre completo es Robert Sylvester Kelly, ha negado con vehemencia las acusaciones, sus acusadores testificaron en detalle que los sometió a caprichos perversos y sádicos cuando eran menores de edad.

Despite facing allegations of sexual misconduct stretching back more than three decades, R. Kelly did not begin to face criminal penalties for his actions ...

Mr. Kelly will now likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. Within a year, several of his concerts were canceled and Time’s Up, the prominent anti-harassment charity, released an open letter asking corporations that had ties to the singer to end them. Jurors said that they began to have doubts after the girl at the center of the case declined to testify. The defense lawyers had “filed so many motions that they helped delay the start of the trial for six years,” The New York Times reported. He also detailed the accounts of Jerhonda Pace, an accuser who had not previously spoken out publicly. Around the same time, Mr. DeRogatis, the journalist, wrote articles for BuzzFeed about disturbing allegations that the entertainer was keeping women in a cult. The ex-manager said he had to bribe an Illinois government employee to obtain a fake ID for Aaliyah that showed she was 18. Mr. Kelly was taken into custody in Florida after a grand jury in Chicago returned a 21-count indictment. The case centered on a 27-minute sex tape that prosecutors said showed him having sex with a minor. The suit was later settled for $250,000. Jim DeRogatis, a reporter at the Chicago newspaper, and a colleague wrote that Mr. Kelly had “used his position of fame and influence as a pop superstar to meet girls as young as 15 and have sex with them.” A former manager testified at trial that Mr. Kelly, who was 27 at the time of the ceremony, had feared that Aaliyah was pregnant, and that Mr. Kelly had sought to avoid prosecution for statutory rape by marrying her.

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But that doesn’t mean that he can accept responsibility in the way that the government would like him to and other people would like him to. Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. Victims “have sought to be heard and acknowledged,” another one of his accusers said at his sentencing. The women who spoke at Kelly’s sentencing were identified only by first names or pseudonyms. He beat child pornography charges in Chicago in 2008, when a jury acquitted him. Because he disagrees with the characterizations that have been made about him,” she said. As an adult with “literacy deficiencies,” the star was “repeatedly defrauded and financially abused, often by the people he paid to protect him,” his lawyers said. Kelly, 55, didn’t give a statement and showed no reaction on hearing his penalty, which also included a $100,000 fine. “You made me do things that broke my spirit. The sentence caps a slow-motion fall for Kelly, who is known for work including the 1996 hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Trapped in the Closet,” a multipart tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue. Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, said he was “devastated” by the sentence and saddened by what he had heard. “I was afraid, naive and didn’t know to handle the situation,” she said, so she didn’t speak up at the time.

Un jurado había declarado a R. Kelly culpable de encabezar un esquema de abuso sexual en las últimas tres décadas. Este miércoles se conoció la sentencia.

Se sabe que el tiempo que ha pasado tras las rejas ha sido difícil, pues sufrió una paliza por parte de un compañero de prisión en 2020 y se enfermó de covid-19 a principios de este año. Pero su equipo legal argumentó que en la actualidad ya no era "un riesgo para el público" y que no merecía más que la sentencia mínima de una década en prisión. Durante el juicio fue confrontado por las víctimas que lo acusaron de abuso sexual a lo largo de décadas. También enfrenta cargos criminales en otros tres casos que aún no se resuelven.

ARCHIVO - R. Kelly durante una audiencia en el Tribunal Penal de Leighton, en Chicago, el 17 de septiembre de 2019. ... El astro del R&B R. Kelly fue sentenciado ...

Las acusaciones de que Kelly abusaba de jovencitas comenzaron a circular públicamente en los 90. Es un caso de violencia, crueldad y control”, le dijo la jueza federal de distrito Ann Donnelly. Un memorando de la defensa sugirió que los argumentos de los fiscales para una sentencia más alta se excedieron al afirmar falsamente que Kelly participó en el pago de un soborno a un funcionario del gobierno para facilitar el matrimonio ilegal. No testificó en su juicio, pero sus entonces abogados retrataron a sus acusadoras como novias y “groupies” que no fueron obligadas a hacer nada en contra de su voluntad y que se quedaron con él porque disfrutaban de las ventajas de su estilo de vida. Según las declaraciones, Kelly contagió de herpes a varias acusadoras sin revelarles que tenía una ETS, obligó a un adolescente a unirse a él para tener relaciones sexuales con una chica desnuda que emergió de debajo de un ring de boxeo en su garaje, y grabó un video vergonzoso que mostraba a una víctima con heces en el rostro como castigo por romper sus reglas. Como un adulto con “deficiencias de alfabetización”, el astro fue “estafado y abusado financieramente repetidas veces, a menudo por las personas a las que pagó para protegerlo”, dijeron sus abogados.

The prison term marks the culmination of Mr. Kelly's stunning downfall. In court, the women he victimized gave wrenching accounts.

Hours after the singer pleaded not guilty to the charges that led to his 2008 trial, he sang alongside children at a church in Chicago. “I don’t know why all these people turned a blind eye,” said the judge, who also ordered Mr. Kelly to pay a $100,000 fine. (He was acquitted on all counts after the girl declined to testify at trial.) Six years later, The Chicago Sun-Times published an investigation into accusations that the singer was having sex with underage girls. “You taught them that love is enslavement and violence,” the judge said, recalling the scenarios he created to wreak primal humiliation on them. She had first encountered Mr. Kelly with hopes of helping a friend land an audition, she said, but the singer coerced her into sex. “I don’t know if I’ll ever be whole,” the woman continued. Mr. Kelly was prepared for prison, she said, but “has regrets and is sad.” “You had a system in place that lured young people into your orbit — and then you took over their lives.” On Wednesday, Mr. Kelly, 55, could no longer escape the fallout: He was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking. The sentencing that followed a September conviction culminated Mr. Kelly’s staggering downfall, from a chart-topping hitmaker known as the king of R&B to a pariah whose musical legacy has become inextricable from his abuses. Around the same time, he began having sex with a 15-year-old girl, according to her subsequent lawsuit.

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“El registro muestra que los padres de Jane le ordenaron a Jane que le mintiera al acusado sobre su edad y luego la animaron a seducirlo”, dicen los documentos. Los abogados de Kelly también dijeron que era incorrecto afirmar que debería recibir más tiempo en prisión porque abusó sexualmente de una de sus víctimas — mencionada en la corte con el nombre genérico de “Jane” — después de que sus padres inocentemente le confiaron que la ayudara con su carrera musical. Un jurado encontró al cantante de 55 años culpable de extorsión y otros cargos el año pasado en un juicio que fue visto como un momento clave en la era del movimiento #MeToo.

R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his R&B superstardom to subject young fans to systematic sexual abuse.

Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. Victims “have sought to be heard and acknowledged,” another one of his accusers said at his sentencing. The women who spoke at Kelly’s sentencing were identified only by first names or pseudonyms. The Grammy-winning, multi-platinum-selling songwriter was convicted last year of racketeering and sex trafficking at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had previously wondered if their stories were being ignored because they were Black women. It’s a case about violence, cruelty and control,” U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly told Kelly on Wednesday. He beat child pornography charges in Chicago in 2008, when a jury acquitted him. Kelly is known for work including the 1996 hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Trapped in the Closet,” a multi-part tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue. The accusers alleged 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.” “You made me do things that broke my spirit. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, used his “fame, money and popularity” to systematically “prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing earlier this month. As an adult with “literacy deficiencies,” the star was “repeatedly defrauded and financially abused, often by the people he paid to protect him,” his lawyers said. “I was afraid, naive and didn’t know to handle the situation,” she said, so she didn’t speak up at the time.

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Las acusaciones de que Kelly abusaba de jovencitas comenzaron a circular públicamente en los 90. Es un caso de violencia, crueldad y control”, le dijo la jueza federal de distrito Ann Donnelly. Un memorando de la defensa sugirió que los argumentos de los fiscales para una sentencia más alta se excedieron al afirmar falsamente que Kelly participó en el pago de un soborno a un funcionario del gobierno para facilitar el matrimonio ilegal. No testificó en su juicio, pero sus entonces abogados retrataron a sus acusadoras como novias y “groupies” que no fueron obligadas a hacer nada en contra de su voluntad y que se quedaron con él porque disfrutaban de las ventajas de su estilo de vida. Según las declaraciones, Kelly contagió de herpes a varias acusadoras sin revelarles que tenía una ETS, obligó a un adolescente a unirse a él para tener relaciones sexuales con una chica desnuda que emergió de debajo de un ring de boxeo en su garaje, y grabó un video vergonzoso que mostraba a una víctima con heces en el rostro como castigo por romper sus reglas. Como un adulto con “deficiencias de alfabetización”, el astro fue “estafado y abusado financieramente repetidas veces, a menudo por las personas a las que pagó para protegerlo”, dijeron sus abogados.