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R. Kelly: The history of his crimes and allegations against him
BBC music correspondent
For more than two decades, chart-topping R&B singer R. Kelly had faced allegations of sexual abuse.
The accounts went back to the start of his career in the 1990s, with many centring on the predatory pursuit of teenage girls.
In 2022, he was jailed for 30 years after being found guilty of eight counts of sex trafficking and one of racketeering in a New York court.
Months later, he was convicted of child sexual abuse in a second federal trial in Chicago.
The singer - whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly - is also due to face sexual misconduct charges Minnesota.
Kelly was himself the victim of child sex abuse, and detailed in his autobiography how he was raped by a female family member when he was eight years old.
Here is a history of the accusations against him.
1994: Marries Aaliyah
Kelly, then aged 27, wed 15-year-old singer Aaliyah at a secret ceremony in Chicago.
Vibe magazine later discovered Aaliyah had lied about her age on the wedding certificate, listing herself as 18. The marriage was annulled in February 1995.
A former tour manager for Kelly testified at his trial that he bribed a government worker in 1994 to obtain a fake ID for Aaliyah - so the singers could marry.
For the rest of her career, Aaliyah dodged questions about the nature of her relationship. "When people ask me, I tell them, 'Hey, don't believe all that mess,'" she told one interviewer. "We're close and people took it the wrong way."
Kelly rarely spoke about Aaliyah after she died in a plane crash in 2001. She is not mentioned in his autobiography, where an author's note explains "certain episodes could not be included for complicated reasons".
In a 2016 interview with GQ magazine, he described their relationship as "best, best, best, best fr (SmileyBooks, $30) “Let’s get this out of the way up front,” said Jesse Washington in the Associated Press. R. Kelly’s autobiography is no tell-all. In it, the prodigiously talented R&B performer doesn’t expound on the infamous sex tape that showed him, according to prosecutors, having sex with an underage girl. The late singer Aaliyah, whom he supposedly married when she was 15, is never mentioned. Yet despite its willful elisions, Soulacoaster offers a “vivid and entertaining journey,” one that confronts “the defining theme of Kelly’s career: the juxtaposition of the sexual and the spiritual.” If you’ve ever wondered how the same artist can be responsible for both “I Believe I Can Fly” and the 22-chapter “hip-hopera” Trapped in the Closet, you’ll find answers here. Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Soulacoaster “doesn’t lack for revelations,” said Josh Levin in Slate.com. Kelly is candid about many rough details of his upbringing on Chicago’s South Side, from being shot in the shoulder to struggling with severe dyslexia to being forced from age 8 to participate in adult orgies in his own home. There are uplifting moments as well: encouragement from a teacher, and the story of how “I Believe I Can Fly” first came to him at age 9 in the form of cartoon-character musical notes. Still, “this is a diary where the elisions are more telling than the disclosures.” Kelly prefers that some skeletons, li 2019 Lifetime documentary on sexual abuse allegations against R. Kelly Surviving R. Kelly is a Lifetime documentary detailing sexual abuse allegations against American singer Robert "R." Kelly. Its first season aired over three nights, from January 3 to January 5, 2019. Filmmaker and music critic Dream Hampton served as executive producer together with Joel Karsberg, Jesse Daniels and Tamra Simmons. Musicians Chance the Rapper, John Legend and Stephanie "Sparkle" Edwards appeared in the documentary. Its premiere episode on January 3, 2019, was Lifetime's highest-rated program in more than two years, with 2 million total viewers. It received critical acclaim, with a 95% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The documentary also spurred several musicians who previously collaborated with Kelly on projects, including Lady Gaga and Ciara, to condemn Kelly and remove their works with him from streaming services. Shortly after the docuseries aired, Kelly's final record label, RCA Records, dissolved its working relationship with him. In February 2019, Kelly was arrested and charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. In June 2022, Kelly was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison in connection with his sex American R&B singer (born 1967) For his self-titled album, see R. Kelly (album). Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967) is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is credited with prolific commercial success in R&B, hip hop, and pop music recordings, earning nicknames such as "the King of R&B", "the King of Pop-Soul", and "the Pied Piper of R&B". Kelly's career ended in 2019 following his arrest and subsequent convictions on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges involving sexual abuse of minors. Born on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, Kelly began performing in the subway under the Chicago "L" tracks, and regularly busked at the "L" stop on the Red Line's Jackson station in the Loop. During his recording career, Kelly released 18 studio albums which yielded a number of hit singles, including "I Believe I Can Fly", "Bump N' Grind", "Your Body's Callin'", "Fiesta (Remix)", "Ignition (Remix)", "Step in the Name of Love (Remix)", "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time", "The World's Greatest", "I'm a Flirt (Remix)", and the hip hoperaTrapped in the Closet. In 1998, he won three Grammy Awards for "I Believe I Can Fly". Alongside his recording career, Kelly's songwriting and production work was credited on albums by Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Janet Jackson, Chris Brown, Aaliyah, Usher, Ciara, Toni Braxton, Luther Vandross, and Mary J. Blige. Kelly received a Grammy Award nomination for his contributions to Jackson's 1995 single, "You Are Not Alone", which earned a Guinness World Record as the first song to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the chart's history. Kelly's 1998 collaboration with Dion, "I'm Your Angel", did so once more. Kelly sold over 75 million albums and singles worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time,& Subscribe to The Week
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Surviving R. Kelly
Surviving R. Kelly Genre Documentary Written by Starring Country of origin United States Original language English No. of seasons 3 No. of episodes 15 Executive producers Producers Running time 44-60 minutes Production companies Network Lifetime Release January 3, 2019 (2019-01-03) –
January 3, 2023 (2023-01-03)
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