#KELLY TIME CLOCK SERIES#

#KELLY TIME CLOCK SERIES#

In January 2019, Lifetime premiered the documentary series Surviving R. In 2018, the Women of Color committee within Time’s Up threw its weight behind the #MuteRKelly campaign, calling for anyone currently profiting from Kelly and his music to drop him, including Spotify, Ticketmaster, and Kelly’s record label, RCA. His longtime musical accompanist, DJ Phantom, was less circumspect about his decision to leave Kelly in 2017: “I didn’t know then what I know now,” he said. His assistant, his accountant, his lawyer, and his publicist have all said that they no longer work for him, although none of them have gone into detail about their departures and all have been supportive and complimentary toward Kelly in their statements. From 2017 to 2019, at least five members of Kelly’s inner circle left him. Most of the claims against Kelly were reiterated in a 2018 BBC Three documentary, R Kelly: Sex, Girls & Videotapes, and then again in Lifetime’s Surviving R. Ladies and gentlemen, vince staples on r kelly /SmZdYu9PNJ- andy April 16, 2018 (Through a lawyer, Kelly has denied all accusations, saying he would “work diligently and forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear his name.”) Since the story broke, multiple women have added their own testimonies of abuse at R. In 2017, he was accused of creating an abusive “sex cult” of very young women, whom he allegedly isolates, brainwashes, and abuses physically and emotionally. (A jury found him not guilty on the grounds that they could not conclusively identify the other figure in his infamous sex tape as a child.) (The marriage was annulled.) In the 25 years since then, he has been sued multiple times for inappropriate sexual contact with a minor (he settled out of court every time), and he was eventually charged with creating child pornography. Kelly has been accused of sexual relationships with minors going back to 1994, when he married 15-year-old pop star Aaliyah.

His sentencing, which came on Wednesday in Brooklyn, is the culmination of a long, slow build of accusations that go back decades. Kelly, one of the most celebrated R&B singers of the ’90s, was convicted in September 2021 on nine counts of racketeering, including acts of bribery and sexual exploitation of a child.

Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison on sex trafficking charges.

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