Federal prosecutors in NYC add to R Kelly’s legal woes

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors hit R. Kelly with more criminal charges Friday, accusing the disgraced R&B singer of having unprotected sex with a girl in 2015 without disclosing he had herpes. The new racketeering charges were included in a revised indictment filed in New York City a week after the 53-year-old Kelly pleaded... Read More

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R. Kelly

March 6, 2020

R. Kelly pleads not guilty; feds say new charges planned

CHICAGO (AP) — 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... Read More

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R. Kelly

March 5, 2020

R Kelly to enter plea to reworked federal charges in Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) — R&B singer R. Kelly is due in federal court on Thursday in Chicago to enter a plea to an updated federal indictment that includes sex abuse allegations involving a new accuser. Kelly, 53, is expected to plead not guilty to a 13-count superseding indictment unsealed last month that includes multiple counts of... Read More

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R. Kelly

February 18, 2020

Reworked charges in Chicago cite another R. Kelly accuser

CHICAGO (AP) — An updated federal indictment against R. Kelly unsealed Friday in Chicago includes sex abuse allegations involving a new accuser, adding to the jailed singer’s mounting legal challenges across three states. The 13-count superseding indictment doesn’t add more charges against Kelly. It includes multiple counts of child pornography and isn’t substantially different from... Read More

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R. Kelly

January 24, 2020

R. Kelly girlfriend can return to Kelly home for belongings

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Thursday agreed to allow a girlfriend of R. Kelly retrieve her belongings from the singer’s home in Trump Tower in Chicago, where authorities say she assaulted one of Kelly’s other girlfriends earlier this month. Joycelyn Savage was in court for a hearing concerning the misdemeanor domestic battery count against... Read More

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R. Kelly

January 10, 2020

R. Kelly girlfriend pleads not guilty to battery charge

CHICAGO (AP) — A fight between two of R. Kelly’s girlfriends inside the embattled singer’s Trump Tower condominium led to a domestic battery charge against one of them and sent the other to the hospital, Chicago police said Thursday. Joycelyn Savage, 24, was taken into custody after allegedly punching a 22-year-old woman in the face... Read More

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December 19, 2019

R. Kelly arraigned on bribe charge linked to Aaliyah wedding

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he schemed with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994. Kelly entered the plea in New York via a video... Read More

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R. Kelly

December 6, 2019

R. Kelly charged with paying bribe before marrying Aaliyah

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors are accusing singer R. Kelly of scheming with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994. The revised indictment, filed Thursday in New York, accuses Kelly of paying... Read More

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Aaliyah, R. Kelly

December 5, 2019

Judge sets Sept. 14 trial date for R. Kelly’s state trial

CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County judge on Wednesday ordered singer R. Kelly to stand trial on one of four sexual abuse cases on Sept. 14, but it remains unclear which of the cases prosecutors will take to trial first. During the hearing in Chicago, Judge Lawrence Flood told prosecutors he wants to know by... Read More

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R. Kelly

October 31, 2019

Infected toe stops R. Kelly from attending court hearing

CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s lawyer has told a federal judge that an infected toe prevented the R&B star from attending a hearing in his child pornography case in Chicago. Kelly is detained at a jail two blocks from the courthouse and had been expected to appear at Wednesday’s status hearing. But defense lawyer Steve... Read More

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R. Kelly

October 30, 2019

R. Kelly up for status hearing in Chicago federal case

CHICAGO (AP) — Singer R. Kelly is slated to appear in a Chicago federal courtroom, where his lawyers could broach a longshot request for a judge to grant him bond as he awaits his child pornography trial. Wednesday’s status hearing comes nearly a month after a judge in a related federal case in New York... Read More

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R. Kelly

September 18, 2019

Judge won’t return R. Kelly bond money to woman who paid it

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge in R. Kelly’s Illinois sexual assault case has refused to give $100,000 in bail money back to a Kelly friend who paid it in February to secure the singer’s release from county jail. The judge says papers that restauranteur Valencia Love signed clearly indicated she could lose the money. Love’s... Read More

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R. Kelly

August 30, 2019

Lawyer wants singer R. Kelly out of solitary confinement

CHICAGO (AP) — A lawyer says singer R. Kelly is enduring “cruel and unusual punishment” by being held in solitary confinement in a Chicago jail on sexual misconduct charges. Defense attorney Steve Greenberg on Thursday filed a motion asking a judge to order the Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow the entertainer to interact with... Read More

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R. Kelly

August 7, 2019

Federal charges ramp up pressure on R. Kelly to make deal

CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly couldn’t be faulted if he felt some confidence he could beat the sex charges brought by Cook County prosecutors earlier this year. He had beaten them before, winning acquittal on all counts in a 2008 child pornography trial. Any confidence the R&B star may have felt likely melted away last... Read More

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R. Kelly

Federal prosecutors in NYC add to R Kelly’s legal woes

R. Kelly pleads not guilty; feds say new charges planned

R Kelly to enter plea to reworked federal charges in Chicago

Reworked charges in Chicago cite another R. Kelly accuser

R. Kelly girlfriend can return to Kelly home for belongings

R. Kelly girlfriend pleads not guilty to battery charge

R. Kelly arraigned on bribe charge linked to Aaliyah wedding

R. Kelly charged with paying bribe before marrying Aaliyah

Judge sets Sept. 14 trial date for R. Kelly’s state trial

Infected toe stops R. Kelly from attending court hearing

R. Kelly up for status hearing in Chicago federal case

Judge won’t return R. Kelly bond money to woman who paid it

Lawyer wants singer R. Kelly out of solitary confinement

Federal charges ramp up pressure on R. Kelly to make deal

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