R. Kelly was charged with soliciting a minor for sexual purposes and soliciting prostitution from someone under 18 today in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The alleged incident took place 18 years ago, in July 2001, according to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. The StarTribune said it was unclear if Kelly would make an appearance there.
Mike Freeman, an attorney for the county, said the alleged incident occurred when a fan was trying to get an autograph from the singer before a concert. The lawyer claims Kelly gave the woman his phone number, and when she called him,...
Mike Freeman, an attorney for the county, said the alleged incident occurred when a fan was trying to get an autograph from the singer before a concert. The lawyer claims Kelly gave the woman his phone number, and when she called him,...
- 8/5/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Singer R. Kelly has been charged in Minnesota with one count of prostitution with a person under 18 and one count of soliciting sex with a person under 18 for an incident that allegedly occurred with an underage girl at a concert in 2001.
The latest sex crimes charges against the R&b singer come as he faces 18 total counts of crimes in Chicago and New York involving women and girls over a span of 20 years. He remains in jail in New York after he was arrested by the NYPD in Chicago on federal sex trafficking charges last month; he was denied bail last week.
In the Minnesota case, which Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Monday evolved after a information gleaned from a Chicago tip line, the July 2001 incident involved an underage girl Kelly met in Minneapolis at a promotional event before a concert. After she asked Kelly for his autograph, he...
The latest sex crimes charges against the R&b singer come as he faces 18 total counts of crimes in Chicago and New York involving women and girls over a span of 20 years. He remains in jail in New York after he was arrested by the NYPD in Chicago on federal sex trafficking charges last month; he was denied bail last week.
In the Minnesota case, which Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Monday evolved after a information gleaned from a Chicago tip line, the July 2001 incident involved an underage girl Kelly met in Minneapolis at a promotional event before a concert. After she asked Kelly for his autograph, he...
- 8/5/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A former employee of R. Kelly told a grand jury the singer regularly recorded tapes of his sexual encounters with underage girls and kept them as trophies ... and they're now believed to be in the hands of the feds. Sources directly connected to the case tell TMZ ... the ex-employee testified in front of a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois Thursday, and claims to have been in possession of multiple tapes in...
- 6/3/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
R. Kelly was charged with 11 new counts of sexual assault and abuse stemming from an alleged January 2010 incident, the Chicago Sun Times reports.
The new set of charges, which Cook County prosecutors filed Thursday, are the most serious R. Kelly has faced so far. They include four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, two counts of criminal sexual assault by force, two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and three counts of aggravated sexual abuse against a victim aged 13 to 16. The four aggravated criminal sexual assault charges are classified as...
The new set of charges, which Cook County prosecutors filed Thursday, are the most serious R. Kelly has faced so far. They include four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, two counts of criminal sexual assault by force, two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and three counts of aggravated sexual abuse against a victim aged 13 to 16. The four aggravated criminal sexual assault charges are classified as...
- 5/30/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Updated, 1:39 Pm: Federal prosecutors in Chicago have filed a new case against singer R. Kelly, this time charging him with 11 felony counts of sexual assault that carry a maximum of 30 years in prison.
The new charges include four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against a victim between the ages of 13 to 16 and two counts each of criminal sexual assault by force and aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Kelly, who is free on bond in the earlier case, will be in court June 6 to answer the 11 new counts.
The “I Believe I Can Fly” singer’s February indictment comprises lower-level felonies that carry a maximum jail term of up to seven years. Read details of that case below.
After those initial charges were filed, Kelly did a wild and wideiy viewed interview with CBS’ Gayle King, in which he screamed, got up and gesticulated,...
The new charges include four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against a victim between the ages of 13 to 16 and two counts each of criminal sexual assault by force and aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Kelly, who is free on bond in the earlier case, will be in court June 6 to answer the 11 new counts.
The “I Believe I Can Fly” singer’s February indictment comprises lower-level felonies that carry a maximum jail term of up to seven years. Read details of that case below.
After those initial charges were filed, Kelly did a wild and wideiy viewed interview with CBS’ Gayle King, in which he screamed, got up and gesticulated,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Madonna’s controversial performance may have grabbed the headlines, but Duncan Laurence won the nearly four-hour-long 2019 Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands with the song “Arcade,” which he cowrote with Joel Sjöö and Wouter Hardy.
Laurence won a total of 492 points from the expert juries and televoters in a contest that was touch and go from the beginning, with North Macedonia a surprise frontrunner until the collective votes were tallied. Italy finished in second place with 465 votes and Russia came in third with 369. It was the fifth win for the Netherlands in Eurovision history, although the country’s first in 44 years.
“In the past few years many well-known artists represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest. I’m not well-known, but that’s also a good thing; The Netherlands has a lot of young and talented musicians,” the 24-year-old singer-songwriter said when he was first selected to represent his country in Eurovision.
Laurence won a total of 492 points from the expert juries and televoters in a contest that was touch and go from the beginning, with North Macedonia a surprise frontrunner until the collective votes were tallied. Italy finished in second place with 465 votes and Russia came in third with 369. It was the fifth win for the Netherlands in Eurovision history, although the country’s first in 44 years.
“In the past few years many well-known artists represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest. I’m not well-known, but that’s also a good thing; The Netherlands has a lot of young and talented musicians,” the 24-year-old singer-songwriter said when he was first selected to represent his country in Eurovision.
- 5/19/2019
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
R. Kelly’s lawyer denied all of the sexual misconduct allegations against the singer and called the Surviving R. Kelly docuseries “disgusting” in a new interview Friday.
Speaking to the Associated Press, Kelly’s Chicago-based attorney Steve Greenberg said, “The allegations aren’t true because he never knowingly had sex with an underage woman, he never forced anyone to do anything, he never held anyone captive, he never abused anyone.”
Greenberg claimed that Lifetime and the Surviving R. Kelly producers told “disgruntled” women what to say on camera to incriminate the singer.
Speaking to the Associated Press, Kelly’s Chicago-based attorney Steve Greenberg said, “The allegations aren’t true because he never knowingly had sex with an underage woman, he never forced anyone to do anything, he never held anyone captive, he never abused anyone.”
Greenberg claimed that Lifetime and the Surviving R. Kelly producers told “disgruntled” women what to say on camera to incriminate the singer.
- 1/12/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Authorities in Chicago and Atlanta are investigating allegations of sexual and physical abuse against R. Kelly in the wake of the Lifetime docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, The New York Times reports.
Prosecutors in both cities are looking to speak with potential victims and witnesses. In Atlanta, the district attorney’s office reportedly began conducting interviews last week, while the Cook County, Illinois state attorney, Kimberly M. Foxx, held a press conference in Chicago Tuesday and asked people to come forward if they had any information.
“Please come forward,” said Foxx.
Prosecutors in both cities are looking to speak with potential victims and witnesses. In Atlanta, the district attorney’s office reportedly began conducting interviews last week, while the Cook County, Illinois state attorney, Kimberly M. Foxx, held a press conference in Chicago Tuesday and asked people to come forward if they had any information.
“Please come forward,” said Foxx.
- 1/9/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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