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R. Kelly Cases: Chicago Prosecutor Drops Sex Abuse Charges In State Case

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A Chicago prosecutor dropped charges of sexual abuse against R. Kelly. According to multiple reports, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said cost was a factor in dropping the ten charges. Moreover, she told reporters that these charges are unnecessary to pursue in the face of his current predicament.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – JUNE 26: R&B singer R. Kelly leaves the Leighton Criminal Courts Building following a hearing on June 26, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Prosecutors turned over to Kelly’s defense team a DVD that alleges to show Kelly having sex with an underage girl in the 1990s. Kelly has been charged with multiple sex crimes involving four women, three of whom were underage at the time of the alleged encounters.
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Furthermore, she stated that her office believes “justice has been served against Kelly with those two convictions. Mr. Kelly is looking at the possibility of never walking out of prison again.” To continue, authorities scheduled the R&B singer to appear in court on Tuesday to drop the charges. Moreover, he faced charges of sexually abusing four people, of which three were minors.

However, this state case dates back to 2019, when Foxx said the incidents occurred between May of 1998 and January of 2010. Also, the 56-year-old faced three to seven years in prison for each charge.

Meanwhile, Foxx revealed that she consulted her decision to drop the charges with the women involved in the indictment. While she believes it might come off as a disappointment to some, she hoped they can understand many factors were at play.

“I know firsthand how difficult it is for you to tell your stories,” she expressed. “Four years ago, I stood at this podium and shared my story of having been a survivor and my full understanding of what it means to have to go before strangers to discuss what is arguably one of the most horrific experiences one could have. And these women, all of them Black, came forward, believing that they would be heard.”

Overall, Kelly’s currently serving a 30-year sentence after a New York conviction for racketeering and sex trafficking. In addition, authorities will sentence him in another federal case in Chicago later this month. What’s more is that this news follows the recent release of Surviving R. Kelly’s final installment.

Still, what do you think of the news that a Chicago prosecutor dropped her office’s charges against R. Kelly? Whatever the case, let us know in the comments down below. Also, as always, come back to HNHH for the latest on this case.

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[WATCH] R. Kelly Questions Why Tasha K And Ex-Prison Guard Have Not Been Charged

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Last week, R. Kelly gave an interview to vlogger Storm Monroe from prison accusing gossip vlogger Tasha K of witness tampering. Kelly accused her of leaking his emails and phone calls ahead of his trial and aggravating his girlfriends by showing them private messages.  

In a new phone interview, R. Kelly demands to know why Tasha K and the prison guard who had access to his information have not been punished or convicted of a crime. The prison guard has since retired and no charges have been filed.

In a call to vlogger Storm Monroe from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago R. Kelly questions why a Bureau of Prisons official was allowed to get away with leaking his emails and phone calls leading to scorned witnesses that lied on him on the witness stand. Kelly adds that there are search warrants from his case against Tasha that went nowhere and he demands to know why.

Kelly also claims Tasha K has links to some of the parents of his former girlfriends and they worked together to bring him down.  
Watch the interview below.

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R. Kelly Claims Tasha K Tampered With Witnesses In His Case

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He will likely spend the remainder of his life behind bars, and allegations against R. Kelly are still pouring in. The disgraced music great was once hailed as one of the best in the business, but these days, his fans are defending his legacy. For decades, Kelly has faced ongoing accusations of child pornography and sex crimes, and he has faced his days in court.

Dozens of outlets tracked and covered Kelly’s trials in New York City and Chicago, but Kelly is paying particular attention to Tasha K. According to him, the YouTuber tampered with witnesses. “Tasha shared my information with the government witness in my case in New York,” Kelly said in a call. “I knew nothing about it ’til I got to Chicago, and it was in the Sun-Times and in the Tribune.”

Read More: R. Kelly Silenced Aaliyah & Her Family With NDAs, Lifetime Doc Claims

The jailed singer added that “it was proven to be true” because they quoted “verbatim everything that Tasha K said that I was saying to my girlfriend.” The host asked if he was referencing Azriel Clary. Kelly answered, “I can’t name any names because that’s my case.”

“The only thing I can say is that, you’re not supposed to do that,” he added. “It’s okay to have witnesses on stands, cases, all of that. No problem. But they’re not supposed to be scorned witnesses. They’re not supposed to be witnesses that’s mad with you because they may have seen some emails or heard some phone calls between you and another woman.”

“That is not how you’re supposed to get your witnesses or have your witnesses.”

Read More: R. Kelly’s Team Attempts To Get Sex Abuse Conviction Acquitted

It seems that Kelly believes Tasha K interfered by turning the women in his life against him just before their testimonies.

The singer also detailed alleged interactions between his girlfriend and others in 2019 he claims he’s been trying to tell the world about for years. Meanwhile, Tasha has a hefty judgment against her; she’s battling against having to pay Cardi B $4 million.

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[WATCH] R. Kelly Accuses Tasha K Of Ruining His Case In Shocking New Interview

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Last year rumors swirled that blogger Tasha K illegally accessed R. Kelly’s prison emails, triggering an FBI investigation. A retired US prisons officer is under a federal investigation for allegedly leaking tons of illegally-accessed information about musician R. Kelly to Tasha K.

Tasha K, posted a number of videos in which she sips wine and shares information to her thousands of followers, quoting verbatim from Kelly’s recorded phone calls, emails and visitor logs, according to a federal search warrant obtained by the Chicago Tribune.

The officer, named in the warrant as Officer A, is accused of illegally accessing Kelly’s private information while he was an inmate at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center and leaking it to 39 year-old Tasha K, whose real name is Latasha Kebe. She has not yet been charged with any crime.

Now R. Kelly is blaming Tasha for ruining his case by sharing private information to each of his women.

In a jailhouse phone call with blogger Storm Monroe, R. Kelly accuses Tasha of upsetting his girlfriends by leaking his emails and phone calls turning all his women against him right before his trial.

Listen to the interview below.

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Aaliyah’s Uncle Continued To Do Business With R. Kelly After Marriage Annulment: Report

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One of Aaliyah’s relatives is facing backlash after the latest episode of Surviving R. Kelly: The Final Chapter.

In episode three of the jaw-dropping series, Kelly’s former backup dancer, Naia Vestal, who met the singer in 1994, revealed that Aaliyah’s uncle, Barry Hankerson, lied when he said he stopped working with the former singer. Dr. Oz interviewed Hankerson in 2021 when the former music manager made these claims but Vestal pushed back during the latest episode of Surviving R. Kelly. She said that Hankerson was still working alongside Kelly on business ventures.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – AUGUST 19: Barry Hankerson, founder of BlackGround Records 2.0 attends a celebration of legacy for Aaliyah’s “One In A Million” album release at Paradise Lounge on August 19, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

“I just remember hearing [him] on the radio,” Vestal said. “I was in Houston driving to work, and Barry Hankerson, his former manager, was saying, ‘Oh when I found out about him messing with my niece Aaliyah, I stopped working with him.’ Nov. of 1994, when I met him, Barry was still his manager. Barry ate breakfast with us.”

Vestal wasn’t the only person who refuted Hankerson’s claims. Jovante Cunningham stated that Aaliyah’s uncle decided to quietly manage R. Kelly, despite his initial intentions to cut ties with the singer.

“I remember coming off tour and Robert saying that he wasn’t gonna renew his management contract with Barry,” she explained. “Barry said, ‘If you don’t renew my management contract, I’m gonna pull the plug on you and Aaliyah.’ And Robert didn’t, or so I thought. And maybe two or three days later is when we found out about the marriage. I didn’t know anything about it.”

According to one of Kelly’s victims, Hankerson is far from innocent in Kelly’s predatorial behavior, even if his involvement in the singer’s schemes were indirect. Lizzette Martinez said she met Hankerson in 1995 following the annulment of Aaliyah and Kelly’s marriage. “For him to be sitting there with underage girls knowing what he had just done to his niece, I don’t know if I really have a lot of respect for this person,” she said.

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R. Kelly Silenced Aaliyah & Her Family With Non-Disclosure Agreements, Lifetime Doc Claims

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R Kelly is behind bars but a critical piece of media that ensured his initial arrest was Lifetime’s Surviving R Kelly series. The documentary dove into the decades-old allegations of sexual abuse against the singer, and eventually, led authorities to arrest him and pressing charges.

Most recently, Lifetime unveiled the third installment in the Surviving R. Kelly series. Dubbed The Final Chapter, the latest season explores his illegal marriage to singer Aaliyah when she was only 15 years old.

Aaliyah during Aaliyah In Concert in Irvine, California, United States. (Photo by Chris Walter/WireImage)

Aaliyah was listed as Jane Doe #1 in Kelly’s 2002 federal trial, and the NDA that she and her family signed was introduced as evidence. However, the doc further details the NDA from those closest to Kelly, including the singer’s bodyguard, Gem Pratt.

Members of Aaliyah’s family didn’t comment on the series. However, Pratt detailed her father’s outrage over the marriage. After demanding an annulment, Kelly arranged an agreement that prevented Aaliyah’s family from pressing charges. In exchange, Kelly sold the rights to his first three albums to her family.

“Her dad didn’t want her anywhere near him,” Pratt said of Aaliyah’s father.

Pratt admitted that there were plenty of enablers in Kelly’s corner prior to his arrest. Meanwhile, prosecutors and legal experts explained that these were critical for the singer’s “criminal enterprise.”

“He couldn’t do this by himself. It’s impossible…It’s clear as day there were enablers,” said Pratt. “This was not a one-man operation. Most people in that camp knew that a lot of these girls were underage. They had to.”

The executive producer of Surviving R. Kelly, Jesse Daniels, explained that they tried to approach the topic as delicately as possible to ensure that they respected her legacy.

“We have had a lot of conversations about how to tell Aaliyah’s story every time because we really want to be respectful of her legacy. But what she went through, we can’t turn our backs on,” said Daniels.

We will keep you posted on anymore developments from Surviving R. Kelly: The Final Chapter.

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“Surviving R. Kelly” Final Chapter Premiere Makes Its Way To Lifetime

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The Surviving R. Kelly series will air its third chapter on Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime as it continues to delve into the disgraced singer’s inappropriate sexual dealings and 30-year conviction. Updated by Kendall Parks (01/03/2023 at 2:37 pm) As the singer begins to serve his recent 30-year sentence in prison, Lifetime is […]

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R. Kelly Survivor Says Discovering an Aaliyah Sex Tape Led to Being Pushed Down Stairs

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R. Kelly Reportedly Denied Conjugal Visits With Both Girlfriends

Surviving R. Kelly: The Final Chapter made its debut at the top of the year and brought out new horrifying stories about the now-incarcerated R&B legend. One of the new stories is from Ebonié Doyle, who said R. Kelly invited them to his home in 1993, kicking off a relationship that would turn violent once she saw a sex tape with Aaliyah.

“Rob used to … have the tour bus sitting outside of my high school, waiting for me to get out. He was at my high school graduation. He was very, very involved,” Doyle stated.

READ MORE: R. Kelly Denies Joycelynn Savage Has a Baby in New Interview From Behind Bars: ‘She Didn’t Have a Child’

According to Rolling Stone, Doyle allegedly moved in with Kelly after she was kicked out of her home for seeing the singer. She stated he was sexually controlling and would have her sit in an arched-back position for hours and filmed her to see if she held it.

Doyle stated R. Kelly would deny a relationship with Aaliyah but noticed how they had similar body appearances and eventually found a basket of VHS tapes, one of which was a film of Kelly having sex with Aaliyah.

READ MORE: R. Kelly Denies Putting Out ‘I Admit It’ Album, Legal Team Investigating Release

“The tape that I put in was of him and Aaliyah together,” Doyle said. “What I saw on that tape was he and Aaliyah being intimate. They were on the tour bus, and everything that I had asked him was confirmed on the tape.”

Doyle stated once Kelly found out she saw the tape, he pushed her down stairs. Their relationship continued, however, only ending once she stated Kelly would begin to look at her 12-year-old daughters with a weird look during visits to McDonald’s.

Surviving R. Kelly: The Final Chapter debuts on Jan. 2 and Jan. 3 on Lifetime.

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R. Kelly Survivor Says He Assaulted Her After Discovering His Aaliyah Sex Tape

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Damning accusations and anecdotes concerning R. Kelly’s history of abuse still shook audiences years after its initial revelation. Moreover, many of these came as part of Surviving R. Kelly, a docuseries by Dream Hampton and journalist Jim DeRogatis. Surviving R. Kelly: The Final Chapter is the final four-part segment of this documentary. Also, it airs for two consecutive nights on January 2nd and 3rd and contains more pained testimonies from victims. One of the most worrisome stories detailed how R. Kelly assaulted a survivor after she discovered his Aaliyah sex tape.

Singer R. Kelly (C) appears at a hearing before Judge Lawrence Flood at Leighton Criminal Court Building, on June 26, 2019. – Prosecutors turned over a DVD allegedly showing Kelly having sex with an underage victim. (Photo by E. Jason Wambsgans / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read E. JASON WAMBSGANS/AFP via Getty Images)

Survivor Ebonié Doyle shared her experiences with DeRogatis in November of 2021, and her story is in The Final Chapter. In it, she talks about how she first became acquainted with the R&B singer and how his mistreatment developed.

“I was 16 years old when I met Rob in 1993. My friends and I went to a show, and he was there with other artists, and I just remember his voice was just amazing,” she remarked. “After the show, my girlfriend and I were waiting outside, we were ready to go to our cars, and a limousine pulls up.”

Then, she said, Kelly invited them to his hotel room, and went on to be involved in Doyle’s personal life. She said he would have his tour bus wait outside of her high school for her, and even went to her graduation. After her mother kicked her out of the house for seeing him, Doyle moved in with the 55-year-old.

While with Kelly, she stated, she found that he was “really controlling … certain things sexually he liked his way.” The star made her arch her back for “literally hours” so it would be to his liking. Also, she confessed that R. Kelly denied claims that he had a relationship with an underage Aaliyah, which took a darker turn.

“I see this basket full of tapes, and I’m like, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just grab one of these tapes, and let me go in the other rooms and see if there’s a VHS so I can watch a movie,’ because I was bored,” she expressed. “That’s when I discovered that he’d been lying to me about Aaliyah.

“The tape that I put in was of him and Aaliyah together,” she continued. “What I saw on that tape was he and Aaliyah being intimate. They were on the tour bus, and everything that I had asked him was confirmed on the tape.” 

When Kelly returned home, an argument over the tape ensued, during which he pushed Doyle down the stairs, leaving her in shock.

“That shake sent me down flights of stairs, and I just laid there. I just froze. That was the moment where I realized [how] to pick and choose my battles.

“Like, I loved him … I love [Kelly],” she went on. “He’s still important to me. And so, he’s not some horrible man to me. And I don’t want people to think that,” Doyle tells her pal. “I just wish that he would get the help he needs. Like, he’s not a bad person, he just does bad things. Does that make [sense]?”

What do you think of these disturbing revelations about R. Kelly? Let us know in the comments down below. Also, as always, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest in the R. Kelly saga.

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R. Kelly Denies Joycelynn Savage Has a Baby in New Interview From Behind Bars: ‘She Didn’t Have a Child’

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R. Kelly gives his first interview from jail. Speaking with Rick Party, R. Kelly denies being the father of a baby with Joycelynn Savage or that she has a child at all.

“I can just say Joycelyn is my fiancée and I love her and she loves me, and we’re together,” R. Kelly said. “She is not in my case, none of that. She’s not against me.”

Later he would deny a new baby, “Hell naw! She didn’t have a child.”

Earlier this month, the jailed singer’s fiancee, Savage, released a picture of a new baby girl, believed to be a father by Kelly. On social media, Savage wrote, “Ava Lee Kelly 12.08.22.”

In a separate post, Savage provided a statement of joy:

“My baby girl Ava when you were born , my whole world shined so bright. I knew that it was no longer about me anymore it was about us . Though the world is cold , I promise to always protect you . I am so happy to be your mother & you bring me so much joy . 12.08.22”

READ MORE: R. Kelly’s Girlfriend Joycelyn Savage Says “I’m Sorry” and is Ready to Tell Her Story

Earlier this year, R. Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean denied Kelly fathering a child with Savage. She stated, “There is no truth to reports that Joy is releasing a tell-all memoir and she is certainly not pregnant with R. Kelly’s child. People are just insane. Carry on.” Savage claimed she and Kelly did IVF because, at the time, she was unable to have a child.

In July, Savage submitted a letter to the courts stating she was engaged to the incarcerated singer. In the letter, Savage stated, “I’m Robert Kelly’s fiance” and also that she is “not the victim that the government portrayed me to be.” Savage would also state R. Kelly was “amazing” to her.

READ MORE: Former Manager of R. Kelly Indicted for Threats Made to Father of Joycelyn Savage

Speaking with TMZ, the attorney for Savage’s parents, Gerald Griggs, stated the engagement is news to the family, and they wonder why the letter was submitted to the courts. She did not testify in support of her alleged fiance.

Currently, R. Kelly is battling with the alleged unauthorized release of a new album, while Lifetime is gearing up for another edition of Surviving R. Kelly.

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