![]() Because he disagrees with the characterizations that have been made about him,” she said. But that doesn’t mean that he can accept responsibility in the way that the government would like him to and other people would like him to. Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, said he was “devastated” by the sentence and saddened by what he had heard. “Silence,” she said, “is a very lonely place.” “I was afraid, naive and didn’t know how to handle the situation,” she said, so she didn’t speak up at the time. The woman said Kelly victimized her after she went to a concert when she was 17. Smokey Robinson turns seductive with new album 'Gasms'Ī third woman, sobbing and sniffling as she addressed the court, also said Kelly’s conviction renewed her faith in the legal system. ![]() The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling songwriter was found guilty last year of racketeering and sex trafficking at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had previously wondered if their stories were being ignored because they were Black women. He has denied wrongdoing, and he plans to appeal his conviction. Kelly, 55, didn’t give a statement and showed no reaction on hearing his penalty, which also included a $100,000 fine. I literally wished I would die because of how low you made me feel,” said one unnamed survivor, directly addressing Kelly, who kept his hands folded and his eyes downcast. “You made me do things that broke my spirit. Through tears and anger, several of Kelly’s accusers told a court in New York City, and the singer himself, that he had misled and preyed upon them. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children, in a systematic scheme that went on for decades. Kelly’s lawyer, Steve Greenberg, has said that the singer - who has faced allegations of sexual misconduct with teenagers for decades - never knowingly had sex with an underage girl.NEW YORK (AP) - Disgraced R&B superstar R. ![]() The women haven’t had any contact with a grand jury reportedly convened in Chicago after a new video allegedly showing Kelly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, Allred said. The women’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, is also representing several other clients who say they were sexually abused by Kelly.Īllred said the women were brave to come forward and said they would meet with officials from the US attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York later Thursday - though the crime allegedly occurred in Maryland. Kelly” took a look at old sexual misconduct accusations against the 52-year-old singer. The accusations come six weeks after the Lifetime documentary series “Surviving R. “So I feel like I need to be here today to tell what happened to me, because of all of the other victims that were affected by it as well.” “It took a heavy toll on me,” Scaff said. With Washington in the bathroom, Kelly allegedly asked for oral sex from Scaff and then had sex with her even though she was drunk and high and “did not have the capacity to consent,” she said. Washington said, “No, I do not do that,” and escaped to the bathroom, Scaff said. The teens were in the hotel room when the R&B star allegedly exposed himself and asked for a threesome, promising them he would put them in one of his videos. He then allegedly told them to meet him at his hotel suite. Kelly, whose full name is Robert Kelly, singled the teens out at the afterparty and had a member of his crew feed them marijuana and alcohol, Scaff said. “However, now that I am an adult, I feel hurt by what he did to me when I was only 16 years old and under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, which had been provided to me at his afterparty.” Kelly that night, I was very happy and excited because I was young and starstruck,” Scaff said at a press conference in New York. Latresa Scaff and Rochelle Washington said Thursday that they met Kelly when they were teenagers in 1996 at the afterparty for his concert with LL Cool J in Baltimore. Kelly‘s entourage plied them with weed and alcohol and then raped one of them, in the latest sexual misconduct allegations against the embattled singer.
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