R. Kelly has been removed from suicide watch, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York, announced Tuesday. The news comes days after lawyers for the convicted sex trafficker filed a lawsuit against the Brooklyn prison for placing him on suicide watch. “Following a clinical assessment, Plaintiff Robert Sylvester …
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“Many have been waiting for this day to come.” Kitti Jones entered a Brooklyn courthouse on Wednesday, ready to confront the man she says sexually and physically abused her for more than two years. In 2017, after years of silence, Jones came forward to detail her relationship with R. Kelly, …
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R. Kelly could not look his survivors in the eye as they stood before the 55-year-old to describe through tears how his abuse forever altered their lives shortly before the disgraced R&B singer was sentenced on federal sex trafficking charges on Wednesday afternoon. Seven women addressed Kelly one by one …
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R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday after being found guilty of all counts of racketeering and sex trafficking against him at his Brooklyn federal trial last year. Prior to sentencing, seven of Kelly’s survivors addressed the court to share impact statements and speak directly to their …
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R. Kelly and his new lawyer Jennifer Bonjean filed motions late Thursday, which ask he be acquitted, or at the very least, for him to be given a new trial after the singer’s conviction in New York federal court of racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child and kidnapping in September. …
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R. Kelly caught Covid-19 in a federal jail in Brooklyn, and the recent diagnosis led a judge to grant him a two-week extension Tuesday on his deadline to file appeal paperwork in his federal racketeering case. U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly ruled the R&B singer now has until Feb. …
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In 2008, Jamon Mytty was picked as foreman of the jury that would rule whether R. Kelly was guilty of child pornography charges. When it came time to deliberate, Mytty, a first-time juror, recalls thinking he didn’t “know how to run” the proceedings. He decided to have the group vote …
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Joycelyn Savage, one of R. Kelly’s girlfriends, was arrested on a charge of domestic battery late Wednesday night after allegedly assaulting another woman connected to the imprisoned singer. In a series of social media posts Wednesday, Azriel Clary — another of Kelly’s girlfriends whose family’s story featured prominently in the …
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A Patreon subscription account accusing R. Kelly of abuse and manipulation purported to be run by one of his girlfriends, Joycelyn Savage, was shut down after its owner failed to verify Savage’s identity. Last Friday, an Instagram account allegedly belonging to Savage posted the message, “There’s something I need to …
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Asante McGee was eating lunch with her son last Friday afternoon when the text messages and articles began flooding in: R. Kelly Charged With 10 Counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse. McGee had met Kelly in 2013 and says the singer invited her backstage weeks later after a show in …
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