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July 21, 2026

Music

R. Kelly Formally Asks Trump to Commute 30-Year Sentence

By Editors Desk

June 23, 2025

People

Supreme Court rebuffs effort by R. Kelly to overturn conviction

R. Kelly pleaded not guilty to a new indictment before Judge Lawrence Flood at Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, Ill. on Thursday, June 6, 2019. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS/Getty Images

October 14, 2024

People

R. Kelly’s daughter alleges singer sexually abused her as a child

In a new documentary, musical artist Buku Abi recalls an incident with her father that “changed who I was as a person and changed the sparkle I had and the light I used to carry.”

By Editors Desk

Buku Abi, R. Kelly’s eldest daughter, in 2019. (John Amis/AP)

January 16, 2024

People

R. Kelly Claims He Was Unaware of Lawsuit That Led to Judge Awarding $10.5 Million to Six Women

The disgraced singer is currently serving a 30-year sentence after being found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking.

By Editors Desk

Image via Getty/Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service

January 31, 2023

People

Chicago prosecutor will drop sexual abuse charges against Kelly

A Chicago prosecutor is dropping sexual abuse and assault charges against singer R Kelly, who is already facing decades in prison after being convicted of federal charges.

By Editors Desk

GETTY IMAGES / Kelly, 56, likely won't be allowed for release until he is 80

September 19, 2022

People

Defending R. Kelly and Bill Cosby, the Same Combative Lawyer

Jennifer Bonjean has become known for her aggressive approach as she has defended men accused of sexual misconduct in several of the highest profile cases of the #MeToo era.

By Editors Desk

Jennifer Bonjean outside Brooklyn federal court in June, where R. Kelly was being sentenced after being convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking. Credit...Stephanie Keith for The New York Times

September 15, 2022

Lifestyle

R Kelly found guilty in child porn trial

Disgraced R&B star R Kelly has been convicted on child pornography charges for making videos of himself abusing his 14-year-old goddaughter.

By Editors Desk

Jurors deliberated for around 11 hours, beginning on Tuesday afternoon, before returning with a guilty verdict on six of the 13 counts that Kelly had faced. Picture: Antonio Perez/Pool/AFP

August 18, 2022

People

R. Kelly trial: Singer has dark side hidden from public - prosecutor

R. Kelly has a "dark" and "hidden" side that the public rarely saw during his career, prosecutors said at the opening of his second federal trial.

By Editors Desk

REUTERS / R. Kelly, pictured in 2019, faces a trial in Chicago

July 12, 2022

People

R Kelly ‘engaged to victim’ after sentence

One of R Kelly’s victims claims she is engaged to him, after the disgraced singer was sentenced to 30 years in jail for shocking sex crimes.

By Editors Desk

R Kelly pictured at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago on September 17, 2019. Picture: Antonio Perez/Pool via Getty Images

June 29, 2022

Lifestyle

Singer R. Kelly Sentenced to 30 Years in Sex Abuse Case

R&B star was convicted last year of using his entourage to recruit women and underage girls for sex

By Editors Desk

R. Kelly stands with his lawyers during his sentencing hearing Wednesday at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in New York. PHOTO: JANE ROSENBERG/REUTERS

August 19, 2021

Entertainment

R. Kelly trial covers big Aaliyah mystery

Years in the making, R. Kelly’s explosive sex trafficking trial has finally begun in Brooklyn with bombshell claims about late singer Aaliyah.

R Kelly married Aaliyah when she was just 15 years old, after the teenager allegedly fell pregnant with his child.Source:Supplied

August 18, 2021

Entertainment

R. Kelly faces decades in prison as sex abuse trial begins

The trial of the US R&B singer R. Kelly has begun at a court in Brooklyn, New York.

REUTERS / A courtroom artist sketched R. Kelly (second right) in court as his trial began

August 18, 2021

Entertainment

R&B singer R. Kelly goes on trial for alleged sex abuse

Prosecutors and defense lawyers are expected to deliver opening statements to a jury of seven men and five women, who will decide the 54-year-old Kelly's fate.

R. Kelly at the Criminal Court Building in Chicago

August 17, 2021

Entertainment

R. Kelly Is Going On Trial For His “Sex Cult” This Week. Here's What You Need To Know.

The disgraced R&B singer heads back into the courtroom on Wednesday on the most sweeping and serious charges he has yet faced.

R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago in September 2019. / Antonio Perez / AP

March 13, 2020

People

R. Kelly ‘Knowingly and Intentionally’ Gave Women Herpes Through Nonconsensual, Unprotected Sex, Prosecutors Say

Kelly’s Brooklyn trial is scheduled to begin in July

February 11, 2020

Entertainment

R. Kelly relived his own alleged child abuse in the bedroom, ex tells Dr. Oz

The singer’s ex claims he told her he was “sexually abused” as a child – and relived the horror experience with her in disturbing bedroom games.

His ex-girlfriend claims he revealed he’d been abused as a child. Picture: Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

December 12, 2019

People

R. Kelly faces new accusations in follow-up docuseries

A trailer for Part II of the revealing docuseries Surviving R. Kelly shows a young woman claiming she was part of the “suicide pact” made if he went to jail.

Singer R. Kelly arrives at the Leighton Courthouse for his status hearing in relation to the sex abuse allegations made against him on May 07, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Picture: Getty Images.Source:Getty Images

December 11, 2019

Media & TV

Lifetime Announces ‘Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning’ Docuseries

Two-part, four-hour special premieres January 3rd and 4th, 2020

November 25, 2019

Society

Live-in girlfriend who defended R. Kelly now calls him ‘monster’ who urinated and defecated on her

One of the two live-in girlfriends who publicly supported R. Kelly amid his federal indictments in Brooklyn and Chicago now says she was a victim of the accused sex trafficker, too.

September 02, 2019

People

R. Kelly's Marriage to Aaliyah Used As Evidence By Prosecutors in Criminal Case

R. Kelly’s secret marriage to an underage Aaliyah is being used by prosecutors to keep the disgraced singer behind bars.