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Embattled singer R. Kelly was taken into custody following a court appearance this afternoon for unpaid child support.

Kelly, who was spotted in cuffs after the hearing in Chicago, will be processed and taken to jail later today. If he makes the payment -- around $161,000 -- he will be released from custody, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Department.

The amount has to be paid in full, the sheriff's department said.
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It appears that R Kelly might be charged with making child porn if this tape is authentic.
A Pennsylvania man was cleaning out an old videotape collection when he found what he thought was a recording of R&B singer R Kelly in concert, but instead turned out to show a man who appeared to be Kelly sexually abusing girls, he and his attorney said on Sunday.

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.... the girls in the video were underage because they appeared to be prepubescent.

Greenberg said the question being asked should be “what are these people doing possessing what they obviously believe is child pornography in their VHS collection and what the authorities are going to do”.

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Singer R. Kelly has lost a civil court case by default after failing to respond to a legal case brought by a woman who accused him of sexual abuse.

He failed to turn up at a court in Chicago, leading a judge to pass the ruling against him.

The woman, identified only as HW, accused Kelly of repeatedly having sex with her when she was a minor.

She is also one of four accusers in a separate criminal case. He has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing.

In her civil lawsuit, HW claimed the R&B singer initiated a sexual relationship with her 20 years ago when she was 16. The age of consent in Illinois is 17.

The judge will determine how much Kelly should pay in damages next month.

The victim sued the singer in February, a day before Kelly was arrested on 10 charges of sexual abuse.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48050242
 
CHICAGO (AP) — R&B singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty to 11 additional sex-related charges on Thursday, including four counts that carry a maximum prison term of 30 years in prison.

Prosecutors did not ask the judge to raise the bond amount for Kelly during the brief hearing in Cook County court.

Kelly stood with his hands folded in front of him and listened to Judge Lawrence Flood describe the charges to him. When Flood asked if he understood, Kelly, responded, “Yes, sir.” The Grammy award-winning singer, who has denied any wrongdoing, left without speaking to reporters. A status hearing was scheduled for June 26.

Among the 11 new counts are four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, which carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. That is more than four times as long as the maximum term for each of the 10 counts Kelly was originally charged with in February.

Kelly’s defense attorney, Steve Greenberg, said after the hearing that he couldn’t speculate as to why prosecutors brought the new charges, which pertain to one of the four women he was charged in February with sexually abusing years ago, three of whom were minors when the alleged abuse occurred.
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According to the new indictment, the first eight counts are from encounters that allegedly occurred between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2010. Three others pertain to alleged encounters between May 1, 2009, and Jan. 31, 2010.

Among other things, prosecutors allege that Kelly used force or threatened to do so to pressure the accuser into sex or to perform oral sex on him. Since she was underage at the time, the statute of limitations for bringing charges was extended to 20 years from her 18th birthday, they wrote.

A woman has come forward to say publicly that 11 new felony counts stem from allegations she made about the R&B singer.

Jerhonda Pace wrote on her Facebook page that she’s the accuser identified as “J.P.” in court documents. Anticipating an angry reaction by Kelly’s fans, Pace — one of four women Kelly is charged with sexually abusing — wrote that “no matter how “wrong” you think I am, the law is on my side, a MINOR at the time.”

The Associated Press doesn’t usually name alleged victims of sexual assault, but Pace has gone public with her allegations.

 
R. Kelly was arrested by the NYPD in Chicago Thursday night on federal sex-crimes charges — and is expected to be brought to New York City to face the raps, law-enforcement sources said.
The R&B singer, 52, was taken into custody by NYPD detectives and federal investigators, according to the sources.

 
More charges coming for R. Kelly after agents seize 100+ electronic devices
CHICAGO — R&B singer R. Kelly on Thursday pleaded not guilty to an updated federal indictment that includes child pornography charges and allegations involving a new accuser, while prosecutors said more charges alleging yet another victim are upcoming.

Kelly, 53, stood silently in orange prison garb with his hands behind his back as his attorney entered the plea on his behalf at the arraignment hearing in Chicago.

More legal trouble is on the horizon for Kelly.

The government plans to file more new charges in the coming weeks, adding another accuser, prosecutor Angel Krull said during the hearing. She didn’t elaborate except to say agents recently seized more than 100 electronic devices, including hard drives, in the case.

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Fallen R&B singer R Kelly was hit with additional charges in Brooklyn Friday over allegations that he raped an underage girl and gave her herpes without disclosing that he had the disease, according to court documents.

The “I Believe I Can Fly” singer is accused in a new indictment of giving an underage girl and a woman herpes in 2015 and 2017. He is also accused of making videos of the sexual encounter with the girl later that year, according to the indictment.

One of the new counts on Kelly’s indictment, coercion and enticement of alleged victim Jane Doe 5, carries a minimum 10-year prison sentence.

It was not immediately clear when Kelly would be arraigned on the new charges.
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R. Kelly seeks release from jail, cites COVID-19 risk
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If it was COVID-14 he'd be cool with it.
 
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against three men accused of threatening and intimidating women who have accused R&B singer R. Kelly of abuse, including one man suspected of setting fire to a vehicle in Florida.

A longtime friend of the indicted singer offered to pay a victim $500,000 to keep her from cooperating in Kelly’s prosecution, authorities said, while a manager and adviser of Kelly threatened to release sexually explicit photographs of a woman who sued Kelly.

A Kelly defense attorney said he had “no involvement whatsoever” in any attempt to silence witnesses.

“He hasn’t attempted to intimidate anyone, or encouraged anyone else to do so,” attorney Steve Greenberg said on Twitter.
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Prosecutors described a third man accused of intimidating witnesses as being related to a former Kelly publicist. They said Michael Williams, 37, of Valdosta, Georgia, traveled to Florida in June and set fire to an SUV parked outside a residence where one of Kelly’s victims was staying.

Williams also conducted Internet searches for “the detonation properties of fertilizer and diesel fuel, witness intimidation and witness tampering and countries that do not have extradition with the United States,” authorities said in a news release.

A message was sent to Williams’ attorney seeking comment.

“The men charged today allegedly have shown that there is no line they will not cross to help Kelly avoid the consequences of his alleged crimes — even if it means re-victimizing his accusers,” Peter Fitzhugh, special agent in charge of the Homeland Security Investigations in New York, said in a statement.

Also charged were two Illinois men with ties to Kelly. His longtime friend, Richard Arline Jr., 31, is accused of offering to pay off a woman he believed had “too much” incriminating information against Kelly.

Authorities said they set up a wiretap and recorded a call in which Arline claimed he had spoken with Kelly behind bars during a three-way call.

Donnell Russell, 45, of Chicago, is charged with harassing a Kelly victim and her mother after the unidentified woman filed a lawsuit against Kelly. Authorities said Russell, a manager and adviser to Kelly, sent a letter to the woman’s lawyer with cropped nude photographs of her and later sent her a text warning her: “Pull the plug or you will be exposed.”

It was not immediately clear whether Russell and Arline had attorneys who could comment on the charges.

 
R. Kelly got a taste of jailhouse justice -- a frustrated inmate went on the attack and jumped Kelly in his cell ... TMZ has learned.

Federal law enforcement sources with direct knowledge tell us the incident recently went down inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago where Kelly was sitting on his bed when another inmate walked in his cell and started punching the crap out of Kelly.

Our sources say the inmate went on the attack because he was angry about the detention facility being placed on lock down a couple of times largely due to Kelly protesters outside the jail.

We're told the fight didn't last long, and it's unclear if another inmate or guards broke it up. Our sources say Kelly was examined by a doctor, who determined the singer was okay ... no broken bones or serious injuries.
 
R. Kelly’s lawyer is rallying for his client to be released from jail after he was reportedly attacked by a fellow inmate on Wednesday (Aug. 26). Steve Greenberg says that while the extent of Kelly’s injuries are unknown, the singer should be released out of concerns for his safety.

Greenberg added, “Regardless it is time to release Mr. Kelly. The government cannot ensure his safety, and they cannot give him his day in court. We should not incarcerate people indefinitely because we cannot provide them with due process!”
 
R. Kelly’s lawyer is rallying for his client to be released from jail after he was reportedly attacked by a fellow inmate on Wednesday (Aug. 26). Steve Greenberg says that while the extent of Kelly’s injuries are unknown, the singer should be released out of concerns for his safety.

Greenberg added, “Regardless it is time to release Mr. Kelly. The government cannot ensure his safety, and they cannot give him his day in court. We should not incarcerate people indefinitely because we cannot provide them with due process!”
nnnnope! leave his ass in there
 
Attacked Again!

R. Kelly attack by pen-wielding inmate leads attorney to ask for early release
R. Kelly’s attorney is seeking an early release for the singer after he was allegedly attacked in his sleep by a fellow inmate armed with a pen.

R. Kelly, 53, whose real name is Robert Kelly, is awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center but his lawyer, Steven Greenberg, is seeking his immediate release given that a trial date cannot be set due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that he feels his client is clearly unsafe in the general population.

“Only in a Third World nation could somebody be held indefinitely, without the possibility of going to trial. It is un-American. It is illegal. Nowhere does the law authorize indefinite detention,” Greenberg wrote in a motion filed Monday that was obtained by Fox News.

Full Story:
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/r-kelly-attack-pen-inmate-release
 
FTA - “Only in a Third World nation could somebody be held indefinitely, without the possibility of going to trial. It is un-American. It is illegal. Nowhere does the law authorize indefinite detention,” Greenberg wrote in a motion filed Monday that was obtained by Fox News.

No it's because even with an excessive bail your client would find some way to slither out of the country (and the law's reach).

Welcome to jail bitch!
 
He can't expect them to get this shit wrapped up quickly. Maybe don't have so many victims, eh? And, then, all of your lies having to be unraveled. It's gonna take time which will be taken off your sentence. Either way, fucker, you're going to be convicted to do time. Get used to it!
 
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A Latin King street gang member convicted of a racketeering conspiracy involving two 1999 northwest Indiana murders claimed in court records this week to be the detainee who assaulted R&B singer R. Kelly in Chicago’s federal jail last month.

Jeremiah Shane Farmer, 39, wrote that “the government made me attack” R. Kelly and that he did so “in hopes of getting spotlight attention and world news notice to shed light on” alleged government corruption.

Farmer’s writings appear in a six-page document filed Tuesday with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Records show Farmer is representing himself and is still detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Kelly is also being held. Lawyers who recently represented Farmer did not respond to messages seeking comment.

“Inmate Farmer appeared to be punching inmate Kelly repeatedly in the head and torso,” the prison employee wrote.

The prison employee used pepper spray to end the assault, the report said. Farmer wrote in his court filing that he wound up in the MCC’s solitary housing unit following the attack.

Farmer also claimed that a mental health professional at the MCC told him, “You don’t want to assault Kelly, if you did, you would have done it.” Farmer wrote that he “said some disrespect back” and was told “go do it then.” That’s when he said he “stormed out” and attacked Kelly despite being told to stop.

Records show Farmer was convicted last year of a racketeering conspiracy that involved the June 25, 1999, murders of Marion Lowry, 74, and Harvey Siegers, 67, at their Hammond business, Calumet Auto Rebuilders. The feds say the men were beaten to death with a hammer.
 
Attacked Again!

R. Kelly attack by pen-wielding inmate leads attorney to ask for early release


Full Story:
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/r-kelly-attack-pen-inmate-release

Jeremiah Shane Farmer says the "the government made me attack" the R&B singer
Too had the government didnt stop him from letiing a bunch of 10 yr olds doodle on his face.

 

Over the last week, a dozen jurors have been told over and over again that R. Kelly was at the helm of a vast and twisted criminal enterprise devoted to helping him prey on young people and blackmail them into total submission.

But by far the most disturbing witness, legal experts say, has been “Jane,” an anonymous woman who said she began a five-year relationship with Kelly when she was just 17.

The now-23-year-old broke down on the stand early this week as she described one of the worst things Kelly allegedly made her do: smear feces on her mouth and eat it.

On video.

“He told me to smear it in my face and what to exactly say and to, like, put it in my mouth and act like I liked, enjoyed that,” the woman told jurors on Monday when describing how Kelly would “make me make videos as punishments.”

“Did you want to be doing that?” Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Geddes asked, while Kelly sat across the barren courtroom.

“I did not,” Jane firmly answered.

In another video, Jane testified, she was forced to falsely say that her father had molested her while she was still crying from a severe spanking—or “chastisement” as Kelly allegedly called such punishments—for violating one of the singer’s rules. The idea, according to prosecutors, was that such a video might be held as leverage against her in the future.

Jane was far from alone in what prosecutors describe as a sordid web of abuse and misconduct. The first witness to testify, Jerhonda Pace, 28, told jurors she was sexually and physically abused by Kelly when she was 16 years old. During their six-month relationship, she said, Kelly also gave her herpes without at least initially disclosing he had the disease. (Jane made a similar allegation.)

Jane’s testimony also alluded to other victims, including some who were allegedly kept in a room for three days after buying the wrong sized Hollister sweatpants or beaten with a size 12 Air Force 1 shoe for lying to the singer. And she described other horrors she said the singer imposed on her, like a forced abortion.

But a canvass of legal experts by The Daily Beast concluded that, one week into a trial critics hope will finally provide a reckoning he has long evaded, the feces testimony stands out as a potential emotional linchpin in the case against Kelly. While the testimony didn’t necessarily nail any specific charge, experts say, it may serve to pull the rug out from the defense’s claim of a consenting relationship.

“It will be very difficult, if not impossible, for the defense to argue that was consensual conduct by a girlfriend or mistress, and that image will be etched in the minds of the jurors in the deliberation room,” Neama Rahman, a former New York federal prosecutor, told The Daily Beast.

“I don’t think you can touch it if you’re the defense,” he added. “It’s so far beyond that pale, that it can blow up in your face on cross-examination if you go there. You just have to generally argue she is a liar in closing.”

As of Wednesday morning, defense attorneys had not brought up the feces allegation in Jane’s cross-examination—instead initially focusing on trying to discredit her credibility by grilling her on discrepancies between her testimony during the trial and what she has previously told prosecutors. The defense has also argued that Jane lied to Kelly when she told him he was 18 when they first met.

Kelly, 54, faces charges including racketeering based on kidnapping, sexual exploitation of children, and forced labor; he is also charged with violations of the Mann Act, which prohibits the transport of people across state lines for sex. The disgraced singer has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him and repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

The argument of consensual conduct is at the core of Kelly’s defense—that his accusers are simply disgruntled ex-girlfriends who “have an agenda,” as defense attorney Nicole Blank Becker put it in opening arguments. While Kelly’s defense team declined to comment directly on Jane’s feces allegation, their claims in open court seem focused on her being a “liar.”

During opening arguments last Wednesday, Becker described Jane as a "long-term girlfriend" of Kelly who “is just another example of someone who ended up having a motive.”

But according to prosecutors, the enterprise—including his drivers, bodyguards, and assistants—helped the Grammy-winning singer lure mostly underaged women into his inner circle, transport them across state lines to follow him to concerts, and enforce his bizarre rules.
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