He cannot stay away from young girls out of trouble!!!
According the the National Enquirer, R. Kelly is under investigation AGAIN for being sexually involved with a minor!
Detectives reportedly showed up at Kelly's Illinois home after receiving a tip that an underage girl was living with him, but there was no sign of either.
Authorities did eventually find the girl and discovered that she is indeed 17, the consenting age for the state, but investigations will continue to discover how long the relationship has been going on!
No complaint has been filed at this time, although he will be questioned by police when he returns from his tour in South Africa.
These allegations are coming just a year after being acquitted for soliciting a minor for child pornography, when he appeared in a sex tape with a 14 year old girl!
Idiot!!!!
Update: According to the Olympia Fields Police Dept, "All rumors are completely false information. There is no investigation into R. Kelly at the present time. We have been fielding calls for the past three days."
R. Kelly is starting the new year off with a finalized divorce from his wife of 11 years, Andrea Lee Kelly.
Who knew he was even married?????
They couple will have joint custody of their two kids.
Who knew he had two kids?????????????
It's a divorce that's been 4 years in the making, starting when Andrea filed an emergency protective order in 2005 amid claims that Kelly was physically abusive. She rescinded later, but in 2006, she filed for divorce.
They married in 1996 after Andrea "auditioned" for Kelly. She would go on to direct the choreography for his tours, videos and live performances.
Acquitted of child pornography charges and divorced!
Looks like it's time to celebrate with some girls!
The I Believe I Can Fly singer believes his former tour promoter - Rowe Entertainment - owes him $3.4 million, and he's asking an LA judge to help him collect!
Kelly claims that Rowe and owner Leonard Rowe didn't cough up all the dough owed to him for shows last year and earlier this year. Rowe said, "No way" but never gave a good reason, so Kelly gets the money.
Toure: Let me ask you something real that millions of Americans are thinking about and wondering about you. Do you like teenage girls?
Kelly: When you say teenage, how old are we talking?
Toure: Girls who are teenagers.
Kelly: 19?
Toure: 19 and younger.
Kelly: I have some 19-year-old friends, but I don't like anybody illegal if that's what we're talking about, underage.
Toure: Uh-huh. Some people think that you like underage girls. What do you say to that?
Kelly: Those people don't know Robert. They don't know me. I usually don't get into what people think about me, because all my career — even before the trial — people had their opinions about Robert, you know. That's probably because, it had a lot to do with me kind of shying away from the crowd, ’cause I'm always in the the studio, digging deep into the basement all the time of my house, creating music. So when people don't know you, they can't touch you like they could someone else. They seem to form opinions or have thoughts about you that they like to, you know, think.
Toure: Some of the people who've worked with you have said there's an issue here. Your former manager has said publicly there's an issue of concern here. Your brother Carey has said there's an issue of concern here.
Kelly: Issue of concern? What do you mean when you say issue of concern?
Toure: They said that they're concerned that you like underage girls.
Kelly: Let me put it to you this way, man. It's unfortunate that people who don't work for me says that the people that do work for me don't say that, and the people who don't work for me were fired. If you have someone work for you and they're mad ’cause they're not working for you anymore and used to getting a certain amount of money or a certain amount of fame because they work for you, because you're famous, and all of a sudden they mess you around and you let them go — anything that comes up about you, they're gonna run and say, "Yeah, he did that to me! I knew this, too, about him." But you really can't, you know — I don't want you, I want my fans: Do not list to the people that was fired. Don't even listen to the people that was hired. Listen to the facts, and get into what you think and make your own opinion. If you're gonna have an opinion about me, have your own opinion of what you think about me. What you definitely don't do is go by somebody that was fired and mad and pissed off about you because they were fired.
Toure: But your brother Carey was not fired. He's your brother.
Kelly: He was fired.
Toure: But he's still your brother.
Kelly: Doesn't matter. He's still my brother, but if he's so my brother [then] why'd he get fired?
Toure: Why did he get fired?
Kelly: I can't get into that. … Unfortunately, it's like this: When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other. I've been blackmailed a billion times in my career — before the trial, during the trial, after the trial — I've been sued for stuff that … ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. People would come up and push whatever, and if it don't come out they'll go tell somebody this or they'll go run and say this, run and say that. I'm used to that. I'm, you know — you don't get used to it. Let me take that back. I'm not used to it, but I'm used to the fact I know people will do this, sometimes even your own family members. I don't hate no one of 'em, but I know a lot of people will be out to get me ’cause I'm very vulnerable, man, especially during a seven-year trial.
Toure: So there's no issue here? They're all wrong, there's no issue here — that's what you're saying?
Kelly: It depends on who you say "they're all," and what they're saying.
Can you believe he said all that shiz???!!!!
R. Kelly also said that he wants everyone to lay off of him since he was found innocent. "If you were charged with something and found innocent, then you can't be found guilty for being found innocent."
The law says he's "technically" innocent, but we can't help feel so skeeved out by him!
As we mentioned yesterday, R. Kelly is involved in a $1.5 million fraud scheme over in South Africa.
It seems a local business woman conned people out of their money, promising them large returns on ticket sales when R. Kelly would tour the country.
Though the tour never happened, people never got their money back, and according to officials in South Africa, the money was deposited into R. Kelly's bank account.
"Luckil"y, reps for the R&B singer have finally released a statement today about the reports.
It reads:
"There is absolutely no truth to the reports that R. Kelly received money from a South African woman accused of swindling investors by convincing them to invest in a non-existent R. Kelly tour in 2005. Mr. Kelly has no knowledge of this woman, has never received any money from her, and has not been contacted by any law enforcement authorities regarding the matter. He will, of course, cooperate fully with any legitimate investigation of this matter, since he has nothing to hide."
A 46 year-old woman in South Africa has allegedly defrauded people out of an estimated $1.5 million.
However, the woman, Busiswe Zakwe, says she deposited the money into the bank account of singer R. Kelly.
Yes, R. Kelly is somehow involved with the whole ordeal.
Local police did confirm that they have a bank deposit slip which shows the money was put into the rappers' US bank account.
Officers say that now after confirming the authenticity of the account, they will be questioning R. Kelly about the money.
As for Zakwe, she's expected to plead guilty to 44 counts of fraud in the Durban Regional Court next month.
The reason for so many counts of fraud?
Turns out back in 2005 she allegedly conned several people into investing about $1,300 each, promising them that when R. Kelly toured South Africa, they would all benefit from ticket sales.
However, police officers say, “R Kelly didn’t come and she [allegedly] ran away with their money." Which has left police wondering why Zakwe deposited the money into R. Kelly's account, and what happened to the money.
Officers did add, “At this stage, we do not know if the money was returned to her."
As for the police, they've only been able to recover about $200k from Zakwe since her arrest.
The police were finally able to catch her after she was on the run for several months, they say.
Reports are that Zakwe and her deceased husband had used their company, BPJR Financial Institution, as the headquarters for their schemes.
Police were able to locate and raid her business after several complaints were made that she had used R. Kelly's name to allegedly con investors.
We wonder what R. Kelly's people will have to say about this and the money that landed in his bank account!
A key witness in the R. Kelly child pornography case, Lisa Van Allen, has told officials she felt threatened and feared she might be killed, it's been revealed.
The woman, who testified she had a 3some with the singer and the teenager in the sex tape, said an employee of Kelly's told her she should have been killed for testifying against the R&B singer.
Van Allen, Kelly's former mistress, testified that he had videotaped her in a three-way with him and his then-underage goddaughter. Jurors however, could not verify that it was indeed the goddaughter on tape.
Even though most of them agreed it WAS R. Kelly on the tape!
Van Allen also testified that Derrel McDavid, Kelly's business manager, paid her $20k to turn over to Kelly a copy of that videotape.
Unfortunately for Van Allen, and luckily for Kelly, the jurors didn't find her to be a credible source.
Allan Mayer, Kelly's spokesman, added, "In her testimony in court, Miss Van Allen revealed herself to be a thief and a liar and she wasn't believed in the courtroom so there's no reason to believe her now."
Thankfully she wasn't killed, though.
They should have just paid her off. No need for threats!
We wonder if the goddaughter was paid off as well….
After all these years R. Kelly finally went to trial on his child pornography charges and a jury has found him….
Not guilty on all counts!
Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty! Not guilty!
We are just moments away from the verdict being read in the R. Kelly child pornography trial.
The singer is charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was 13 or 14 at the time the tape was made.
If convicted, Kelly faces a minimum of four years in jail and a maximum of 15 years.
He would also have to register as a sex offender in Illinois.
Though the verdict will be read within moments, sentencing will come at a later time.
