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Witness Alleges R. Kelly Abused Aaliyah At Age 13
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cook County Department of Corrections / Cook County Department of Corrections The federal racketeering trial against disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly has unearthed some truly disturbing allegations, and the latest one has the late singer Aaliyah at the center of it. On Monday (September 13th) in the federal court in Brooklyn, New York, a witness referred to as “Angela” testified that they frequently had sexual relations when she was a minor. “Angela” met Kelly when she was 15 at a party at his apartment in Chicago. She stated that first meeting ended up in her becoming part of an orgy initiated by R. Kelly. She testified that she would later drop out of high school to be a backup dancer for him on tour in 1992 or 1993. When the prosecutor displayed a pho...
Drake Producer Noah “40” Shebib Explains R. Kelly Sample Fail
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Christopher Polk/AMA2012 / Getty It’s 2021, and aligning yourself, even inadvertently, with anything R. Kelly-related is asking for a fail. Enter Drake, who sampled the disgraced crooner on his new album, Certified Lover Boy, and has been catching flack for it ever since. R. Kelly’s hit tune “Half On a Baby” is sampled on “TSU.” Anyone with fundamental knowledge of how music publishing works knows the Pied Piper had to be credited, or else he could come back and sue, and surely win, for copyright infringement. The 6 God’s longtime producer Noah “40” Shebib recently took to social media to explain details of what seemed like a suspect maneuver. 40 hit the comments on a post shared by Ravyn Wngz of an article that said R. Kelly was a “co-writer.” Turns out,...
Minister Who Married R. Kelly & 15-Year-Old Aaliyah Details Shotgun Hotel Room Wedding To Court
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: E. JASON WAMBSGANS / Getty It’s not looking good for the king of R&Pee. R.Kelly’s federal sex trafficking trial is trucking along, and the prosecution is not playing. Wednesday (Sep.1), the minister who officiated Kelly’s 1994 wedding to Aaliyah testified under subpoena. Buzzfeed News reports 73-year-old minister Nathan Edmond claimed in his sworn testimony he never met both singers before he performed the “ceremony,’ that he revealed he was asked to do by Keith Williams, a mutual friend he shared with Kelly. “I didn’t think it was anybody special. I didn’t understand it at all,” he stated during day 10 of Kelly’s ongoing federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial being held in Brooklyn. Edmond shared further details about the shotgun wedding that...
Down Low: Male Accuser Details Sexual Abuse He Allegedly Endured At The Hands of R.Kelly During Federal Trial
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty Disgraced singer and alleged peddler of herpes R.Kelly didn’t just prey on young Black girls. He also allegedly messed with boys too. R.Kelly’s federal sex trafficking trial is currently underway. The witnesses are spilling the tea on the stand, and all share similar stories of how the singer/songwriter used his fame and influence to manipulate them into performing sexual acts. But one witness, in particular, is garnering attention, being that he is a male. As spotted on NewsOne, the male accuser whose identity remains concealed detailed how R.Kelly met him at his alleged favorite scouting location McDonald’s, when he was only 17. Like Kelly’s alleged female victims, the “Down Low” singer used the at-the-time 17-year old’s dream of...
Broke Alone: R. Kelly Can’t Find Buyer To Purchase His Music Publishing Catalog
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cook County Department of Corrections / Cook County Department of Corrections R. Kelly is looking to raise money and rather quickly. According to reports he is trying to sell his publishing rights but no one is buying. The disgraced crooner is apparently going through it like never before. A couple of weeks ago his lawyer Deveraux L. Cannick revealed that Robert’s funds are almost completely exhausted. So much so he requested trial transcripts for him, which are usually provided at cost, for free. According to Billboard Magazine his music publishing generates about $1.7 million dollars a year. He is apparently trying to sell it but thus far he has had no luck finding a buyer. Due to his association to some very vile accusations, including s...
R. Kelly’s Federal Trial Begins With Disgusting Account of Alleged Abuse
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Timothy Savage(C) and Jonjelyn Savage(L), parents of victim Jocelyn Savage, speak to the media as they arrive to attend the trial in the racketeering and sex trafficking case of R. Kelly at Brooklyn Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York on August 18, 2021. – For more than a quarter-century Kelly, now 54, has faced lurid accusations including child pornography, sex with minors, operating a sex cult and sexual battery. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) The federal trial for disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly finally began, with the prosecution making opening statements and witness testimony showing just how heavy the case is against him. On Wednesday morning (August 18) in a Brooklyn courthouse, the prosecution ma...
R. Kelly Wants Federal Herpes Charges Bumped
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: E. JASON WAMBSGANS / Getty The R. Kelly trial in Brooklyn just started, and it’s already been the gift of gossip that keeps on giving—no pun intended. The disgraced R&B crooner’s lawyers are requesting that the charges related to R. Kelly passing on STD’s to his victims be dropped. Good luck with that. TMZ reports that R’s counsel is citing a technicality to get the charges tossed. Reportedly, the legal docs file the Eastern District of NY, R. Kelly’s team is asking that the charge that he knowingly exposed sexual partners to herpes get tossed because the law being cited doest include herpes because it’s “Not An Acute, Bacterial Venereal Disease.” So Team Pied Piper is basically saying herpes shouldn’t count. Again, good luck with that. The prosecutio...
Penniless Piper: R. Kelly Says He’s Broke Weeks Before Trial Starts
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cook County Department of Corrections / Cook County Department of Corrections The wack juice continues to be poured on R. Kelly. He now claims his finances are in shambles weeks away from a major trial starting. As spotted on Page Six the Pied Piper Of Pee-Pee is in a place far more sunken that any of his fans or haters have imagined. Earlier this week he appeared in Brooklyn federal court for a hearing. During the proceedings his lawyer revealed that The R is hurting financially. “His finances are depleted,” said Devereaux Cannick. “I ask the court to give him daily copies of the transcripts.” He also stated that the Chicago, Illinois native has gotten severely out of shape while behind bars. “We need measurements for appropriate attire for his tria...
R. Kelly’s Lawyers Allowed To Bail On Alleged Pied Piper Of R&Pee Before BK Trial
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty Even R. Kelly‘s lawyers have had enough of the guy. A judge has allowed a couple of the disgraced singer’s lawyers to withdraw from representing him during his upcoming trial in Brooklyn for sex trafficking, amongst other charges. On Thursday, July 15, U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly granted a request from two of R. Kelly’s lawyers, Steve Greenberg and Michael Leonard, to be allowed to withdraw from the case. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the singer’s team of lawyers have had a falling out, with Greenberg and Leonard telling the judge it was “impossible” for them to continue repping the “I Believe I Can Fly” crooner. R. Kelly’s now-ex lawyers first made the request in June, and issued a statement to the press. “Ultimately, a...
R. Kelly’s New Defense Attorney Requests To Delay Racketeering Trial Date
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: E. JASON WAMBSGANS / Getty R&Pee singer R. Kelly finally has new legal representation after his old team dumped him last month. As the racketeering trial date fast approaches, they’re requesting a delay fearing there won’t be enough time to prepare for their day in court. According to Law & Crime, the delay request cites that attorney Deveraux L. Cannick has limited access to Kelly due to the current conditions of his incarceration paired with pandemic restrictions. The obstacles make it difficult to fully dive into his “massive discovery” before the trial date next month. “We write to request a delay in the commencement of Robert Kelly’s trial,” Cannick wrote in a motion to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. “While he i...
R. Kelly’s Defense Team Wants His Trial Delayed Due To Jail Conditions
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty The defense team for disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly is seeking to have his sex trafficking trial delayed due to factors arising from recent changes to the group of lawyers. In a motion written and filed on Monday (July 5) with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, attorney Deveraux L. Cannick asked for a delay because he has recently joined the legal team defending the singer. “While he is anxious to move forward and address the charges against him, it is my considered view that given my limited access to him as well as circumstances of his detention, I simply do not have enough time to adequately meet with him and also digest the massive discovery,” Cannick stated. Cannick partially cites the current COV...
R. Kelly Transferred From Chicago Prison To New York Ahead Of Trial
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cook County Department of Corrections / Cook County Department of Corrections Imprisoned R&B singer R. Kelly has been transferred from a Chicago facility to a detention center in Brooklyn, N.Y. ahead of his sex crimes trial there. Kelly is now being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) and he’ll face trial starting this summer. According to a report from the Chicago Sun-Times, Kelly 54, has been held at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center for almost two years, adding that Kelly’s stay at the MCC has been replete with some issues that include him being attacked by an inmate among other concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. Kellly will face racketeering charges in New York, and this request was known for quite some time, this ...
