11/19/2022 0 Comments R kelly number one mp3![]() ![]() So if the trials go ahead, there could be more allegations against the singer to come. But black girls in particular."įor Kelly, who last released a studio album in 2016, the guilty verdict in New York is not the end of his legal troubles he is facing further sex abuse charges brought in Illinois and Minnesota - to which he has also pleaded not guilty. They are simply not believed, and women in general are not believed about a sexual abuse story. Image: R Kelly is also facing sex abuse charges brought in Illinois and Minnesota - to which he has also pleaded not guiltyĭeRogatis agrees it was a "problem of race", saying: "What the 48 women whose stories I've told in the last 21 years have all said to me is that nobody matters less in America than young black girls. And I've watched the way the entertainment industry, our whole community, maligned these young women for years. "I was a black girl, I'm a black woman in this country. I started to hear about Aaliyah and the other young ladies, and they were always young black girls. "I was a big R Kelly fan many years ago, in the '90s. It has taken movements such as #MeToo and Time's Up, as well as #MuteRKelly, to get to this point, she says. Kenyette Tisha Barnes, the co-founder of the #MuteRKelly movement - launched in 2017 to make calls to boycott the singer's music and shows, and "hold accountable those who allowed this behaviour to go on for so long" - says the answer is simple: "Because these were young black girls from inner-city Chicago." But, you know, until Surviving R Kelly brought these women into people's living rooms in America, and they saw woman after woman after woman 12 different women appeared on camera, telling their stories. "There were police officers who valiantly tried to stop his predatory behaviour. But it was Surviving R Kelly that finally got people listening, he says. This was a cash machine for the music industry that was well aware of his behaviour and never actually acted to stop it."ĭeRogatis never stopped his reporting, helping to tell the stories of 48 different accusers over the past 21 years. "During that time, he's selling 100 million albums - of his own, and he produced for everyone from Whitney Houston and Celine Dion to Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. Image: R Kelly was once one of the biggest music stars in the world He was silencing victims with money." The most shocking thing about the case, he says, is the timeframe, and how Kelly was allowed to get away with what he was doing because of his fame. "He thought he was untouchable," says DeRogatis. But Kelly was acquitted and continued to prey on young girls. The tape led to the 2002 charges and the delayed trial in 2008. "Twenty-six minutes and 39 seconds showed Kelly very clearly having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl, urinating in her mouth at one point." "No markings on either." The contents of the tape, he says, were horrifying. "There was a manila envelope with a VHS cassette," he says. Just over a year later, DeRogatis was anonymously sent a videotape. that this would still be ongoing in 2021." We never thought when that paper came out. ![]() "It had been going on already for nine years. "I always felt like I was late to the story when my partner at the Sun-Times, Abdon Pallasch, and I did the first investigative report," he tells Sky News. ![]()
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