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Celeb News: Full details of R.Kelly's sex assault claims
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Full details of R.Kelly's sex assault claims
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Long article so i'll just post the first few pghs.
Refresh our memories. How did this start for you?
Being a beat reporter, music critic at a Chicago daily, The Sun Times, R. Kelly was a huge story--this guy who rose from not graduating from Kenwood Academy, singing at backyard bbqs and on the El to suddenly selling millions of records. I interviewed him a number of times. Then TP2.com came out. I'd written a review that said the jarring thing about Kelly is that one moment he wants to be riding you and then next minute he's on his knees, crying and praying to his dead mother in heaven for forgiveness for his unnamed sins. It's a little weird at times. It's just an observation.
The next day at the Sun-Times, we got this anonymous fax--we didn't know where it came from. It said: R. Kelly's been under investigation for two years by the Sex Crimes Unit of the Chicago Police. And I threw it on the corner of my desk. I thought: "player-hater." Now, from the beginning, there were rumors that Kelly likes them young. And there'd been this Aaliyah thing --Vibe printed, without much commentary and no reporting, the marriage certificate. Kelly or someone had falsified her age as eighteen. There was that. So, all this is floating in the air. This fax arrives and I think, "oh, this is somebody playing with this." But there was something that nagged at me as a reporter. There were specific names, specific dates and those great, long Polish cop names. And you're not going to make that crap up. So, I went to the city desk and I asked "What do we do with this?" They said Abdon Pallasch is the courts reporter, why don't you two look into it and see if there's anything there? And it turns out there had been lawsuits that had been filed that had never been reported. When you cover the courts in Chicago or any city, you go twice a day and you go through the bin of cases that have been filed and every once in awhile, Michael Jordan's been sued or someone went bankrupt and it's this sexy story and you pull it out. These suits had been filed at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Ain't no reporter working at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve, and they flew under the radar. So we had these lawsuits that were explosive and we didn't understand why nobody had reported them
Explosive in what regard?
They were stomach churning. The one young woman who had been 14 or 15 when R. Kelly began a relationship with her, detailed in great length, in her affidavits, a sexual relationship that began at Kenwood Academy. He would go back in the early years of his success and go to Lina McLin's gospel choir class. She's a legend in Chicago--gospel royalty. He would go to her sophomore class and hook up with girls afterward and have sex with them. Sometimes, buy them a pair of sneakers. Sometimes, just letting them hang out in his presence in the recording studio. She detailed the sexual relationship that she was scarred by. It lasted about one and a half to two years and then he dumped her and she slit her wrists, tried to kill herself. Other girls were involved. She recruited other girls. He picked up other girls and made them all have sex together. A level of specificity that was pretty disgusting. Her lawsuit was hundreds of pages long and Kelly countersued. The counter suit was, like, 10 pages long. "None of this is true!" We began our reporting. We knocked on a lot of doors. The lawsuits, the two that we had found initially had been settled. Kelly had paid the women and their families money and the settlements were sealed by the court. But, of course, the initial lawsuits remain part of the public record.
And there was young woman that was pressured into an abortion?
--That he paid for. There was a young woman that he picked up on the evening on her prom. The relationship lasted a year and a half or two years. Impregnated her, paid for her abortion, had his goons drive her. None of which she wanted. She sued him. The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody. They have any complaint about the way they are treated: they are "bitches, hos and gold diggers," plain and simple. Kelly never misbehaved with a single white girl who sued him or that we know of. Mark Anthony Neal, the African American scholar, makes this point : one white girl in Winnetka and the story would have been different. No, it was young black girls and all of them settled. They settled because they felt they could get no justice whatsoever. They didn't have a chance.
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Sick to my stomach. How anyone can support him is disgusting
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Is this new or about the old stuff?
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This man. 
My fave working with this man.
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Is this real?
And there are people still working with him
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He is the pits but we've known this for a long time, how the good lord allows him oxygen is beyond me.
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Member Since: 8/3/2012
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They're just playa haters lookin' for a quick buck.
I should've said I hooked up with R. Kelly so I could be rich. 
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Originally posted by zach
Is this new or about the old stuff?
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New. Just released today. Shame on Gaga for embracing him 
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Lord, why do articles like this always get published in important weeks for the artist? R. Kelly is about to have his first Top 10 hit in a long long while, and his album just got released. Terry Richardson has done some horrible things too and nobody cares about that, he just remains working with every single pop star (has he worked with Katy yet?)
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Get that promo DWUW 
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Originally posted by DivaDown
They're just playa haters lookin' for a quick buck.
I should've said I hooked up with R. Kelly so I could be rich. |
Who exactly is getting rich or even receiving money for saying they hooked up with him?
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All of these girls had a choice. King of RnB remains unbothered.
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Originally posted by Swine
Lord, why do articles like this always get published in important weeks for the artist? R. Kelly is about to have his first Top 10 hit in a long long while, and his album just got released. Terry Richardson has done some horrible things too and nobody cares about that, he just remains working with every single pop star (has he worked with Katy yet?)
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He isn't in the public eye ...
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oh my god
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Originally posted by PopBoi
He isn't in the public eye ...
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Terry or R.Kelly?
Because they both are, currently.
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Originally posted by DivaDown
They're just playa haters lookin' for a quick buck.
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Originally posted by Extra Espresso
Terry or R.Kelly?
Because they both are, currently.
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Terry. The GP don't know who he is, whereas R Kelly has been known for a long time. Well, I can only speak for the UK but I know if I went out very few people could tell me who he is.
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Wow. I mean, WOW. I'm reading this full lengthy article on their site and it is EXPLOSIVE, indeed.
I had no idea how many underage women R. Kelly had been with. This part is shocking:
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9th and 10th grade girls [were] interviewed on WGN talking about how he was in the parking lot of their school everyday and everyone knew how come. Part of our reporting was sitting with those girls, sitting with their families, seeing their scars on their wrists, hearing the emotion.
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R. Kelly would have sex with all these underage girls and then
they would try to kill themselves. Lord. Lock this man up.
...Vin
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I could care less about his personal life (we all have our issues) I love his music and no article is going to change that.
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Originally posted by ryanpittman97
I could care less about his personal life (we all have our issues) I love his music and no article is going to change that.
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Is this sarcasm or ... ? Because I don't remember pressuring underage girls into having sex with me.
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How old is 9th/10th grade?
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