For anyone who thinks R. Kelly was “railroaded” at his recent racketeering and sex trafficking trial, victim Faith Rodgers wants you to consider this: She wasn’t even alive when the marriage certificate showing R. Kelly had wed 15-year-old singer Aaliyah in 1994 was first unearthed by Vibe magazine that same …
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The defense for R. Kelly rested its case Wednesday in the singer’s federal trial on racketeering charges in Brooklyn, with Kelly’s lawyers calling only five witnesses to the stand over the three-day-long defense. However, Kelly opted to not testify in his own defense, avoiding the prosecutors’ cross-examination. According to the …
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The minister who officiated R. Kelly and Aaliyah’s 1994 wedding spoke about the illegal union between the two singers for the first time ever Wednesday during testimony at Kelly’s criminal trial in Brooklyn. Nathan Edmond, a 73-year-old ordained minister in Chicago, testified about the ceremony under subpoena, marking the first …
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Two prominent Dallas radio stations publicly announced that they will no longer support R. Kelly‘s music on Monday. The decision from K104, which plays a mixture of contemporary hip-hop and R&B, and KRNB, which plays R&B reaching back to the Nineties, came in the wake of the six-part docuseries Surviving …
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One of R. Kelly‘s alleged survivors details how the singer used manipulation and domination to mold her in this exclusive clip from the upcoming Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. “Pretty early on he kind of introduced you to everything he was into. I was instructed to call him ‘Daddy’ during …
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