R. Kelly

The singer will serve most of the sentence in federal prison at the same time as a 30-year term for racketeering and sex trafficking.

Kelly to pay one of the sexual abuse victims $42,000 in restitution for therapy bills, denying it to the goddaughter and the third woman whose account led to a conviction. The third woman, referred to as Nia during the trial, addressed Mr. Kelly had suffered his own history of sexual abuse as a child and that he had intellectual disabilities that “shed some light on why he engaged in inappropriate relationships.” She had denied to a grand jury that she was the person in an infamous tape that prosecutors said showed Mr. Kelly sexually abused her repeatedly when she was a teenager, sometimes at the same time as the goddaughter. Kelly be put in jail for “as long as the law allows.” The additional sentence reduces the chance that Mr. Bonjean, who said she was appealing the convictions in both Brooklyn and Chicago, had lobbied for the minimum 10-year prison sentence, arguing that Mr. He was acquitted of a charge that he had attempted to obstruct an earlier investigation into his abuse of the goddaughter, and two other counts of enticing minors to have sex. Kelly would be likely to commit the same kind of crimes in his 80s. Kelly was once widely viewed with pride as a product of the city’s South Side. Kelly received after a jury in Brooklyn

The disgraced singer's sentence by an Illinois court for child pornography charges brings his total prison term to 31 years.

Kelly allegations](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/timeline-r-kelly-allegations-n1280065) (NBC News) Kelly Sentenced To One Additional Year In Prison In Child Pornography Case, Bringing Prison Time To 31 Years](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/23/r-kelly-sentenced-to-one-additional-year-in-prison-in-child-pornography-case-bringing-prison-time-to-31-years/?sh=633143fa6710) (Forbes) [Timeline of the R. [sentencing](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvey-weinsteins-prison-term-double-l-rape-sentence-rcna71702) for a rape conviction in Los Angeles. Scrutiny against Kelly resurfaced in the late 2010s when a [Buzzfeed News ](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult) [report](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult) alleged he ran a “cult” in which he dictated the lives of and emotionally and sexually manipulated six women (Kelly denied the allegations). Kelly was [charged](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r-kelly-charged-multiple-counts-sexual-abuse-minor-n974621) in Illinois on multiple counts of sexual abuse of minors the next month. “Black men, with diabetes, do not live into their 80s in prison,” Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean [told](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/r-kelly-sentenced-federal-child-pornography-trial-1234685009/) the judge, adding there is no reason to believe he would reoffend in his mid-80s if he completes a 30-year prison sentence. This prompted further backlash against Kelly, sparking the #MuteRKelly social media [campaign](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/timeline-r-kelly-allegations-n1280065) and inspiring other women to publicly [make allegations](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40635526) against him. The series inspired wide backlash against Kelly from former collaborators, celebrities and social media users, and he was [dropped](https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports#:~:text=R.-,Kelly%20Has%20Been%20Dropped%20By%20RCA%20Records,%20'Billboard'%20Reports,multiple%20women%20of%20sexual%20abuse.) from his record label later that month. [marriage](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/timeline-r-kelly-allegations-n1280065) to Aaliyah (which was annulled months later because she was underage) and lawsuits brought against him for allegedly having sex with minors. Kelly, a six-part Lifetime docuseries chronicling Kelly’s alleged instances of abuse, [premiered](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/celebrities-react-lifetime-s-surviving-r-kelly-docuseries-n955201) in January 2019 and featured interviews with women who accused him of physical, sexual and mental abuse. To this day, and even following the jury verdict against him, Kelly refuses to accept responsibility for his crimes,” prosecutors Kelly has faced allegations of sexual abuse throughout his career.

Editor's note: This report includes allegations of sexual and physical abuse. Disgraced former R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced Thursday in Chicago to one ...

[dropped](https://apnews.com/article/illinois-legal-proceedings-chicago-indictments-e9c78bdcb4a45f9a4a84c856b6c69255) her office's separate sexual abuse charges against Kelly, saying that the former star will likely serve "extensive sentences" in prison already. As it stands, the 56-year-old Kelly is currently expected to serve his sentence until he is in his late 80s. [said](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/2/23/23611784/r-kelly-sentence-chicago-child-pornography): "Robert shattered me. Kelly was sentenced Thursday in Chicago to one more year in federal prison atop the current 30 years he is serving on a separate federal sentence in New York. The additional year stems from a verdict made last September in an Illinois federal courtroom, in which he was Kelly's lead defense attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, had asked U.S.

A federal judge has handed singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison sentence for his Chicago convictions of child pornography and the enticement of minors for sex.

Kelly’s abuse of children was all the worse, she said, because he “memorialized” his abuse by filming victims, including Jane. “The (government’s) whole theory of grooming, was sort of the opposite of fear of bodily harm,” the judge told the court. “It was the fear of lost love, lost affections (from Kelly)'. To give him a consecutive 25-year sentence on top of that “is overkill, it is symbolic,” she said. Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. Prosecutors did not get a conviction on the marquee charge: that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. She also remarked that Kelly will be lucky to survive his 30-year New York sentence alone. “It's the right outcome,” she told reporters following the hearing. “I will never get back what I lost to Robert Kelly. “When your virginity is taken by a pedophile at 14 … Kelly remained still and impassive, his eyes downcast, when the judge issued his sentence in a Chicago federal courtroom. That would have been tantamount to sending him to prison for life.

A US judge on Thursday handed disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison term for child pornography and other charges, but he will serve most of it ...

The federal conviction in Chicago came one year after Kelly was convicted in New York of systematically recruiting teenagers and women for sex. The artist born Robert Sylvester Kelly was convicted in September 2022 on six of 13 counts alleged in the Chicago trial: three counts of producing child pornography and three of enticement of a minor. A US judge on Thursday handed disgraced R&B singer R.

A federal judge will sentence R. Kelly for his Chicago convictions of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex on Thursday, when the 56-year-old ...

Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. Kelly was acquitted of the marquee count, alleging he successfully rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial. A federal judge will sentence R.

R. Kelly has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his child sex convictions, but he won't spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The sentence means Kelly will serve all but one of his 20-year prison sentence concurrently with a previous 30-year sentence for federal racketeering and sex trafficking convictions in New York. In the statement, Jane described herself as a "sex slave" and stated that she was "brainwashed" by Kelly, which nearly killed her. Kelly's defense lawyer has declared the singer's sentencing as a victory following a hearing in a courtroom in his hometown of Chicago. The sentence brings a measure of closure to the case and sends a message that sexual abuse will not be tolerated in any form. "He noted that Kelly's sexual abuse victims would suffer from his crimes for the rest of their lives." The Grammy Award-winning R&B singer remained motionless with his eyes downcast as Judge Harry Leinenweber delivered his sentence, which at times was hard to follow.

He'll serve most of that time concurrently with his 30-year federal sentence for sex trafficking in New York.

[state charges](https://pitchfork.com/news/r-kelly-facing-new-criminal-charges-in-minnesota/) in Minnesota for allegedly engaging in prostitution with a minor. Following Kelly’s [September conviction](https://pitchfork.com/news/r-kelly-found-guilty-in-federal-child-pornography-case/), a federal court in Chicago ruled that he’ll serve 19 of those years concurrently with the [30-year sentence](https://pitchfork.com/news/r-kelly-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-in-federal-sex-crimes-case/) a New York judge handed down for Kelly’s sex trafficking and racketeering convictions last summer. Kelly](https://pitchfork.com/artists/2385-r-kelly/) has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on federal child pornography charges, [The Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/legal-proceedings-chicago-4e28346eea99a9e962f524ea37aa9b67/) reports.

R. Kelly at Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, Illinois Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Pool via REUTERS. Singer R. Kelly will serve an additional ...

The earlier investigation that led to Kelly’s acquittal in a 2008 state child pornography trial in his hometown of Chicago had various child pornography, sex abuse, and obstruction charges. According to WLS, Kelly’s attorney argued that the fact that Kelly had been mistreated as a youngster deserved leniency and requested for a term of 10 years to be served concurrently with his New York sentence. Following a trial in New York, Kelly was sentenced to three decades in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering in June 2022.

Former American recording artiste Robert Sylvester Kelly, professionally known as R. Kelly, has been sentenced to an additional 20 years imprisonment. The.

Kelly to 20 years imprisonment, in which 19 of those 20 years would be served concurrently with his earlier sentence instead of the 25 years sentence the prosecutors had demanded. Following the jury verdict against him, to this day, Kelly refuses to accept responsibility for his crimes.” The United State District Judge Harry D.