R. Kelly

The disgraced singer's sentence by an Illinois court for child pornography charges brings his total prison term to 31 years.

Kelly allegations](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/timeline-r-kelly-allegations-n1280065) (NBC News) Kelly Sentenced To One Additional Year In Prison In Child Pornography Case, Bringing Prison Time To 31 Years](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/23/r-kelly-sentenced-to-one-additional-year-in-prison-in-child-pornography-case-bringing-prison-time-to-31-years/?sh=633143fa6710) (Forbes) [Timeline of the R. [sentencing](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvey-weinsteins-prison-term-double-l-rape-sentence-rcna71702) for a rape conviction in Los Angeles. Scrutiny against Kelly resurfaced in the late 2010s when a [Buzzfeed News ](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult) [report](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult) alleged he ran a “cult” in which he dictated the lives of and emotionally and sexually manipulated six women (Kelly denied the allegations). Kelly was [charged](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r-kelly-charged-multiple-counts-sexual-abuse-minor-n974621) in Illinois on multiple counts of sexual abuse of minors the next month. “Black men, with diabetes, do not live into their 80s in prison,” Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean [told](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/r-kelly-sentenced-federal-child-pornography-trial-1234685009/) the judge, adding there is no reason to believe he would reoffend in his mid-80s if he completes a 30-year prison sentence. This prompted further backlash against Kelly, sparking the #MuteRKelly social media [campaign](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/timeline-r-kelly-allegations-n1280065) and inspiring other women to publicly [make allegations](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40635526) against him. The series inspired wide backlash against Kelly from former collaborators, celebrities and social media users, and he was [dropped](https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports#:~:text=R.-,Kelly%20Has%20Been%20Dropped%20By%20RCA%20Records,%20'Billboard'%20Reports,multiple%20women%20of%20sexual%20abuse.) from his record label later that month. [marriage](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/timeline-r-kelly-allegations-n1280065) to Aaliyah (which was annulled months later because she was underage) and lawsuits brought against him for allegedly having sex with minors. Kelly, a six-part Lifetime docuseries chronicling Kelly’s alleged instances of abuse, [premiered](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/celebrities-react-lifetime-s-surviving-r-kelly-docuseries-n955201) in January 2019 and featured interviews with women who accused him of physical, sexual and mental abuse. To this day, and even following the jury verdict against him, Kelly refuses to accept responsibility for his crimes,” prosecutors Kelly has faced allegations of sexual abuse throughout his career.

R&B superstar R. Kelly's musical accomplishments have long been shadowed by allegations that he sexually abused women and children. The singer is scheduled ...

[Canada](https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada) [Loblaw facing 'over 1,000 supplier requests' for fresh price hikes: Galen G. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer he would serve all but one of his 20 years on child sex convictions simultaneously with a previous sentence. In the year since Russia's latest invasion of Ukraine, Canada has committed more than $1 billion in military aid to help Ukrainians defend themselves from Russia. Social media short-form video giant TikTok is under investigation in Canada over its use and collection of users' personal information. 14, 2022: A federal jury convicts Kelly of three child pornography counts and three counts of child enticement. A separate indictment filed in the Eastern District of New York includes charges of racketeering, kidnapping, forced labour and the sexual exploitation of a child. (Aaliyah died in a plane crash seven years later, at age 22.) March 6, 2019: CBS airs an interview in which Kelly vehemently denies the sexual abuse charges. July 17, 2017: BuzzFeed reports on parents' claims that Kelly brainwashed their daughters and was keeping them in an abusive "cult." The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Haughton in a secret ceremony arranged by Kelly at a Chicago hotel. He was acquitted of a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him fixing his state child pornography trial in 2008.

Editor's note: This report includes allegations of sexual and physical abuse. Disgraced former R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced Thursday in Chicago to one ...

[dropped](https://apnews.com/article/illinois-legal-proceedings-chicago-indictments-e9c78bdcb4a45f9a4a84c856b6c69255) her office's separate sexual abuse charges against Kelly, saying that the former star will likely serve "extensive sentences" in prison already. As it stands, the 56-year-old Kelly is currently expected to serve his sentence until he is in his late 80s. [said](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/2/23/23611784/r-kelly-sentence-chicago-child-pornography): "Robert shattered me. Kelly was sentenced Thursday in Chicago to one more year in federal prison atop the current 30 years he is serving on a separate federal sentence in New York. The additional year stems from a verdict made last September in an Illinois federal courtroom, in which he was Kelly's lead defense attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, had asked U.S.

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday sentenced R. Kelly to one additional year in prison for his conviction on sex crimes, extending a 30-year sentence ...

Robert Sylvester Kelly, 56 ans, avait été reconnu coupable par un jury fédéral de Chicago de production de pédopornographie et détournement de mineur.

Le chanteur avait en revanche été acquitté pour des accusations d’obstruction à la justice. Il avait finalement été reconnu coupable en septembre 2021 d’avoir piloté pendant des années un «système» d’exploitation sexuelle de jeunes, dont des adolescentes, et condamné en juin dernier à 30 ans de prison par un tribunal fédéral à New York. Kelly sur des jeunes filles, dont l’une n’avait que 14 ans, avaient été diffusés pendant le procès.

Le chanteur déchu R. Kelly a été condamné à 20 ans de prison pour avoir produit de la pornographie juvénile.

Kelly l’avait forcée plus d'une centaine de fois à avoir des rapports sexuels avec lui. Kelly uriner sur une adolescente, en plus de l'agresser sexuellement. Le chanteur déchu R.

A federal judge handed singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison sentence for his convictions of child pornography and the enticement of minors for sex.

Un juge fédéral de Chicage a condamné jeudi R. Kelly à 20 ans de prison pour pédopornographie et incitation à des relations sexuelles avec des mineurs mais ...

Avec la sentence de jeudi, Kelly ne purgera pas plus de 31 ans. C'est ce qu'ils ont demandé, arguant que ses crimes contre les enfants et son absence de remords le justifiaient. Kelly purge une nouvelle peine après avoir terminé sa peine de 30 ans imposée l'année dernière à New York pour extorsion et trafic sexuel.

Cette peine ne s'additionnera pas à celle de trente ans qu'il a reçue en juin 2022 à New York pour des crimes sexuels, le juge Harry Leinenweber ayant ordonné ...

Le chanteur avait en revanche été acquitté pour des accusations d’obstruction à la justice. L’artiste, mondialement connu pour son tube I Believe I Can Fly et ses 75 millions de disques vendus, avait longtemps régné sur le R’n’B malgré des soupçons d’agressions sexuelles. Kelly, star déchue du R’n’B, a été condamné jeudi 23 février à une peine de vingt ans de prison pour pédopornographie devant une cour fédérale de Chicago.

R&B superstar R. Kelly's musical accomplishments have long been shadowed by allegations that he sexually abused women and children. On Thursday, the singer ...

Le chanteur américain R. Kelly, star déchue du R & B déjà condamnée à 30 ans de prison pour crimes sexuels, a écopé jeudi d'une peine de 20 ans de prison ...

Kelly sur des jeunes filles, dont l’une n’avait que 14 ans, avaient été diffusés pendant le procès. Le chanteur avait en revanche été acquitté pour des accusations d’obstruction à la justice. Robert Sylvester Kelly, 56 ans, avait été reconnu coupable par un jury fédéral de Chicago de production de pédopornographie et détournement de mineur.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a call from prosecutors to keep R. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy Award-winning R&B ...

[Canada](https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada) [Loblaw facing 'over 1,000 supplier requests' for fresh price hikes: Galen G. Israel's far-right government has granted approval for over 7,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, settlement backers and opponents said Thursday. Social media short-form video giant TikTok is under investigation in Canada over its use and collection of users' personal information. In the year since Russia's latest invasion of Ukraine, Canada has committed more than $1 billion in military aid to help Ukrainians defend themselves from Russia. As the world marks the one-year anniversary of Russia's war in Ukraine, NATO allies are looking at what more can be done to support Ukrainians. Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world's biggest R&B stars. Prosecutors did not get a conviction on the marquee charge: that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. It just doesn't seem to me that it rises to the fear of bodily harm." But he added, "Twenty years is a significant sentence, and we are happy that that was imposed in this case." He noted that Kelly's sexual abuse victims would suffer from his crimes for the rest of their lives. Handed down in a courtroom in Kelly's hometown of Chicago, the sentence means Kelly could make it out of prison alive, when he is about 80. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer he would serve all but one of his 20 years on child sex convictions simultaneously with a previous sentence.

The R&B singer was given one additional year of prison time for child pornography and the enticement of minors for sex.

“It was the fear of lost love, lost affections,” he continued. During that trial, Kelly’s lawyers argued that he should receive no more than a 10-year sentence due to circumstances that included “severe, prolonged childhood sexual abuse, poverty and violence”. With Thursday’s sentence, Kelly will serve a maximum of 31 years behind bars and become eligible for release around the age of 80.

La vedette déchue du RnB était déjà condamnée à 30 ans de prison pour crimes sexuels.

Le chanteur avait en revanche été acquitté pour des accusations d'obstruction à la justice. Kelly sur des jeunes filles, dont l'une n'avait que 14 ans, avaient été diffusés pendant le procès. Le chanteur R.

R. Kelly avait été condamné à 30 ans de prison pour crimes sexuels en juin 2022. Jeudi 23 février, l'interprète de «I Believe I Can Fly» a écopé d'une ...

Kelly, star déchue du R&B déjà condamné à 30 ans de prison pour crimes sexuels, a écopé jeudi 23 février d'une peine de 20 ans de prison pour pédopornographie dans une autre affaire, devant une cour fédérale de Chicago. Kelly avait été condamné à 30 ans de prison pour crimes sexuels en juin 2022. Jeudi 23 février, l'interprète de «I Believe I Can Fly» a écopé d'une nouvelle peine de 20 ans prison pour pédopornographie.

R. Kelly was sentenced to only one additional year in prison over federal child pornography charges in Chicago on Thursday.

The video central to the federal Chicago case was also the one involved in the 2008 child pornography trial where he was acquitted involving “Jane,” Kelly’s goddaughter, who [tearfully testified that Kelly filmed him sexually abusing her](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/r-kelly-underage-tape-trial-1234577589/) beginning when she was 14. [found Kelly guilty](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/r-kelly-chicago-trial-verdict-1234593064/) on three counts of child pornography and three counts of enticement of a child last year. And we are happy that that that was imposed in this case, and that does ensure the safety of the community for those years, at least based on these facts in this particular case.” When asked if there is anything they can do regarding the restitution, he said, “It’s complex” and that he wasn’t comfortable on commenting on it, leaving the door open that the issue could be legally addressed in the future. As Kelly was escorted out of the courtroom, his supporters — who have been present throughout the trial — shouted “we support you” and “we love you.” Leinenweber said outside of Pauline’s citations of the cost of her therapy ($42,000, which she was granted on Thursday in restitution), there was no proven expenses to grant further restitution and he said the victims should pursue civil suits. “I will forever be the girl that Robert Kelly pissed on.” She added: “Robert Kelly needs to be in jail for the balance of his natural born life.” Appearing in an orange jail jumpsuit and flanked by two of his lawyers, the bespectacled Kelly did not meet eyes with the victims as they spoke. She said she “had once loved Robert,” but meeting him has led to her undergoing therapy for depression and thoughts of suicide. “I was completely damaged by you on the inside,” she told the court on Thursday. Last September, a federal jury convicted the disgraced singer on [ six of 13 counts](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/r-kelly-chicago-trial-verdict-1234593064/), including three counts each of producing child pornography and enticing minors into illegal sexual activity. (If he serves his complete 31-year-sentence, the now-56-year-old Kelly will be in his mid-80s when he’s released from prison.) The judge also brought up that the Chicago federal case was initially up for prosecution before the New York case, but Covid protocols changed things. Kelly](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/r-kelly/) was sentenced to only one additional year in prison over federal child pornography charges in Chicago on Thursday.

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a call from prosecutors to keep R. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy ...

Kelly’s abuse of children was especially appalling, she said, because he “memorialized” his abuse by filming victims, including Jane. Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. Prosecutors did not get a conviction on the marquee charge: that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. Another accuser, who used the pseudonym “Nia,” addressed Kelly directly in court. But he added, “Twenty years is a significant sentence, and we are happy that that was imposed in this case.” “It’s the right outcome,” Bonjean said of the sentence after the hearing ended. Kelly remained still, his eyes downcast, as Leinenweber explained what was at times a hard-to-follow sentence. “He is 56 years of age.” He noted that Kelly’s sexual abuse victims would suffer from his crimes for the rest of their lives. Handed down in a courtroom in Kelly’s hometown of Chicago, the sentence means Kelly could make it out of prison alive, when he is about 80. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer he would serve all but one of his 20 years on child sex convictions simultaneously with a previous sentence. Article content

Le chanteur déchu de nouveau condamné. R. Kelly a été condamné à 20 années de détention supplémentaires par un juge de Chicago, dans le cadre de son procès ...

Le jury a également déclaré Kelly coupable d’avoir réalisé trois vidéos de lui-même en train d’agresser sexuellement sa filleule de 14 ans. Kelly ne devrait donc écoper que d’une année de prison en plus de ses 30 ans déjà infligés, et ce même si les procureurs auront fait valoir que cette nouvelle sentence devait s’ajouter à sa peine de prison écopée dans le cadre de son procès s’étant déroulé à New York l’an passé, du fait qu’il représente un danger pour la société et qu’il « ne présente aucun remords ». Et ce même si, comme le rapporte le New York Times, cette peine devrait être purgée en simultané de la peine de 30 ans qu’il subit actuellement.

E. Jason Wambsgans Pool via Agence France-Presse Robert Sylvester Kelly, 56 ans, avait été reconnu coupable par un jury fédéral de Chicago de production de ...

Le chanteur avait en revanche été acquitté pour des accusations d’obstruction à la justice. Il avait finalement été reconnu coupable en septembre 2021 d’avoir piloté pendant des années un « système » d’exploitation sexuelle de jeunes, dont des adolescentes, et condamné en juin dernier à 30 ans de prison par un tribunal fédéral à New York. Kelly sur des jeunes filles, dont l’une n’avait que 14 ans, avaient été diffusés pendant le procès.