The Trial Of R. Kelly

[ZariusTwo]

The trial of the US R&B singer R. Kelly has begun at a court in Brooklyn, New York.

The star is accused of racketeering, sexual abuse and bribery; charges which he has repeatedly denied.

Some of the allegations made against the singer - whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly - date back more than 20 years.

If he is convicted on all counts he could be sentenced to several decades in prison.

Opening statements are being delivered to a jury of seven men and five women, who will decide the 54-year-old singer's fate.

Kelly faces charges that he was the ringleader of a two-decade scheme where he recruited women and underage girls for sex.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58254151

[Leo656]

I remember reading about stuff like that with this guy way back in the late-90s. It's amazing it took so long for anything to happen with it. The dude literally used to hang out in the parking lot outside of middle schools and try and talk to 11 and 12-year old girls, and nobody ever said or did anything about it. I mean it got reported on in various entertainment magazines, even back then, but everybody just shrugged it off and was like, "Yeah, but... what are you gonna do?"

I guess the line between "Rich eccentric" and "Full-Blown Sex Criminal" is razor thin when you're wealthy and popular.

What disgusts me is, there are TONS of people (mostly women, no less), who flat-out say they don't care if he IS guilty of all that stuff, they support him anyway, either because his music was "the soundtrack of their lives" OR because they find him sexually attractive. That's just nuts. Like, it's not "speculation", most of the stuff this guy's accused of doing is verified. It's not even news, it's not whether or not he did it; it's more like "HOW did so many people ignore it for so long?" Yet some people still support him.

Like when all that stuff came out about him peeing on that little girl, a lot of chicks were like "DAMN, I'd PAY to have R. Kelly piss on ME!" It's like who the f*ck thinks and/or talks like that?

Dude should've been locked up 20-something years ago. F*ck this guy.

[Coola Yagami]

I remember reading about stuff like that with this guy way back in the late-90s. It's amazing it took so long for anything to happen with it. The dude literally used to hang out in the parking lot outside of middle schools and try and talk to 11 and 12-year old girls, and nobody ever said or did anything about it. I mean it got reported on in various entertainment magazines, even back then, but everybody just shrugged it off and was like, "Yeah, but... what are you gonna do?"

I guess the line between "Rich eccentric" and "Full-Blown Sex Criminal" is razor thin when you're wealthy and popular.

What disgusts me is, there are TONS of people (mostly women, no less), who flat-out say they don't care if he IS guilty of all that stuff, they support him anyway, either because his music was "the soundtrack of their lives" OR because they find him sexually attractive. That's just nuts. Like, it's not "speculation", most of the stuff this guy's accused of doing is verified. It's not even news, it's not whether or not he did it; it's more like "HOW did so many people ignore it for so long?" Yet some people still support him.

Like when all that stuff came out about him peeing on that little girl, a lot of chicks were like "DAMN, I'd PAY to have R. Kelly piss on ME!" It's like who the f*ck thinks and/or talks like that?

Dude should've been locked up 20-something years ago. F*ck this guy.

Kinda reminds me of some people that put up this male supermodel dude's pic on a Tinder profile and his bio was about him recently being released from jail for all sorts of crimes, including stuff involving kids. Women came in droves to this imaginary guy's DMs completely disregarding the stuff he did all in hopes he'd plow them next. It got to the point the dude got tired of playing along and was just sickened by all these women.