Showing posts with label R Kelly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label R Kelly. Show all posts

Thursday, July 31, 2008

If You Really Want To Apologize For Slavery Amercia, Vote For Obama!

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Will Zimbabwe MDC Leader Morgan Tsvangirai's Dropping Out Cause Africa To Unite?

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Friday, June 13, 2008

THE R KELLY JURY DID WHAT???

Robert Kelly is one happy camper right about now, thanks to a Cook County jury who just acquitted the R&B pied-piper of child pornography charges. This marks the end of a high-profile trial chocked full of courtroom drama.

The 41-year-old superstar long denied charges that he videotaped himself engaging in a variety of sex acts with his then-underage goddaughter.

Authorities said the female in the video could have been as young as 13 at the time. The jury of nine men and three women deliberated for 7 ½ hours before finding Kelly not guilty on all 14 counts.

"R Kelly was found not guilty because they had the best jury that Cook County could produce," said Kelly's attorney Sam Adam Jr. "Two things happened today. R. Kelly got his name back and [his goddaughter] never had to lose hers," Adam said.

Prosecutors struck a somber note about a case that's lasted more than six years, using their statements to thank witnesses, profess faith in their case and acknowledge they had an uphill fight to prove it.

"As we must, we accept the verdict of the jury in this case," said Cook County State's Atty Richard Devine. "This prosecution is one we have no reservations about."

Shauna Boliker, the lead prosecutor in the case, reserved her comments to thanking witnesses who came forward. "It was a difficult thing for them to do, but they did it very eloquently and courageously," she said.

In the moments before the verdict was announced, Kelly could be seen praying in the courtroom. As the verdicts rolled in, each count not guilty, Adam said he heard Kelly saying, "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus."

Kelly left the courtroom surrounded by his entourage, who kept reporters away from the singer and escorted him to a waiting sport-utility vehicle as some 50 supporters shouted support to him.

Though Kelly did not speak to reporters, he did salute and wave to fans.

Allan Mayer, a Kelly spokesman, said, "Robert has asked me to speak on his behalf for now. Robert has said all along that he believes in our system, and he believes in God. And that when all the facts came out in court, he'd be cleared of these terrible charges.

"He did not expect that it would take 6 ½ years. It's been a terrible ordeal for him and his family, and at this point all he wants to do is move forward and try to put it behind him. He wants to thank his lawyers who defended him so brilliantly. He wants to thank his fans who stuck by him and supported him with such love.

"Most of all, he wants to thank God for giving him the strength to get through this. He's going to have more to say about all of this very soon. But for right now, he'd be more inclined to be with his family, collect himself and get strong again. But we'll be hearing from him soon about all of this.

"Again, he thanks everyone for their support, and he thanks our system of justice for seeing him through. And he thanks God for his strength and his love."

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Be Afraid R Kelly, Be Very Afraid!

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Friday, June 6, 2008

Morehouse Grad Samuel L Jackson Seeks Entertainment Mogul Status

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

R Kelly Defense Witness: Relatives Of Alleged Victim Deny It's Her, Splits With Other Family Saying Otherwise

Somebody's having having sex in R Kelly's house on the video. Is there still a question as to who?????

The defense team for the R&B star opened its case Wednesday with relatives of the alleged victim testifying that she is not the female on the video that prosecutors say shows the Grammy winner having sex with an underage 13-year-old girl.

A defense witness on Wednesday also accused a key prosecution witness who testified earlier this week of soliciting $300,000 fromthe R&B singer in exchange for her silence.

To date, seven of the alleged victim's family members have testified -- four for the prosecution telling jurors they recognized the female as their relative, and three taking the stand insisting it's not her.

Shonna Edwards, 27, the first of the three relatives to testify for the defense, responded promptly, "It definitely wasn't her," claiming the female's body in the tape was too developed to be her relative at that time.

Edwards having just seen the tape for the first time several days ago in a lawyer's office, added that the man in the sex tape "did not appear" to be Kelly.

During cross-examination, prosecutors displayed two photos on asplit screen -- one of the female in the tape and one of the allegedvictim -- and asked Edwards if it was at least possible they werethe same person.

"Not at all," Edwards said without hesitating.

Other family members of the alleged victim, Charlotte Edwards and Leroy Edwards Jr., provided similar testimony on Wednesday.Their statements contradict other family members who testified for the prosecution.

Also Wednesday, the defense sought to discredit the testimony of witness, Lisa Van Allen, who told jurors Monday that she engaged in three-way sex with Kelly and the alleged victim.

A law clerk for the defense team, Jason Wallace, told jurors that Van Allen's fiance, Yul Brown, sought $300,000 from Kelly in return for a promise not to testify against him.

"Lisa doesn't have to testify in court if things are made right," Wallace quoted Brown as saying during a meeting with a Kelly attorney in Georgia last month, according to Wallace.

Van Allen was at the meeting in a hotel lobby, Wallace said, but Brown did all the speaking. But Wallace said Van Allen kept nodding her head in agreement.

Reporter Refuses To Answer Questions At R. Kelly Trial

Earlier Wednesday, a Chicago Sun-Times reporter declined to answer questions at the trial.

After he was sworn in, Jim DeRogatis cited an Illinois law that governs reporters' rights and the First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution in refusing to answer questions.

DeRogatis read the statement more than a dozen times in response to questions, including to whether he once made a copy of the sex tape at the heart of the trial.

Defense attorneys have said that copying the tape would have been a crime.

After DeRogatis spent 10 minutes on the stand, Judge Vincent Gaughan said reporters' privileges don't apply. But he ruled that DeRogatis doesn't have to testify based on his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

DeRogatis attorney Damon Dunn argued that reporters have an obligation to pursue facts and that "they shouldn't be put in this type of position by defendants."

He also said that DeRogatis continued to cover the R. Kelly case.

"Mr. DeRogatis is a reporter who is reporting on this case until today. ... It is up to the reporter to pursue the facts wherever they go."

Dunn said covering child pornography has "higher societal goals." He also argued that if forced to testify DeRogatis won'tbe able to guarantee to sources in the future that he would nothave to reveal their names.

But defense attorney Mark Martin said the defense didn't intend to ask DeRogatis about his sources.

"So reporters' privilege does not apply. ... Being a reporter does not give a reporter rights to commit criminal offenses," Martin said. Source
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Monday, June 2, 2008

In The R Kelly Trial, Star Witness Lisa Van Allen Blows The Lid Off Child Molestation In The Black Community

Child molestation and sex addiction. These issues are just as prevalent in the Black community as it is anywhere. The only difference is we tend to sweep it under the rug. There are women who have bore children from the rapes that they endured at the hands of some older relative and men who have been sexually abused who then perpetuate the abuse on others.

If these allegations are true, these young woman will forever be scarred by these perverted acts, despite how "normal" they appear to be. While some feel Lisa Van Allen and the victim are just as culpable, the fact is R Kelly was the adult, and not only seemingly reveled in these disturbing acts, but continued to perpetuate them. Find out what Van Allen testified to today after the jump.

Star witness Lisa Van Allen is currently testifying about the three-way sessions she had with the Urinator and the under-age hussy at the heart of this case. It may be a tad long - but it’s a very juicy read:

“Van Allen said she had met R. Kelly at the video shoot for ‘Home Alone,’ in which she appeared, in late 1997 or early 1998. She talked with Kelly and ended up having ‘intercourse’ with him in the trailer, she said. She was 17 at the time, she said.

The pair exchanged numbers and Van Allen soon visited Kelly in Chicago, eventually giving up her job in Atlanta to be with him full time. Kelly paid for her to stay in hotels and she spent most of her time with him at the studio, she said.

In late 1998, she testified, Kelly took her to his former home on the North Side of Chicago, where she met the alleged victim in this case for the first time. Kelly taped them while they had three-way sex in his ‘log-cabin’ room, she said. That’s the same room he’s alleged to have filmed the tape in this case. Kelly told her the alleged victim was 16, she said.

On another occasion, following an awards ceremony in Chicago at which Kelly had been honored, Van Allen, Kelly and the alleged victim in this case again had videotaped three-way sex. But this time they did it on Kelly’s basketball court.

‘He took up his camera and we took off our clothes and we all had sex again,’ she said. Van Allen said Kelly stopped the sex session after she broke down crying. “I didn’t want to do it,” she said.

On a third occasion, sometime in 2000, Kelly, Van Allen and the alleged victim romped again, this time in his trailer at the video shoot for ‘Woman’s Threat,’ Van Allen said. Kelly and the alleged victim ran naked to hide after somebody knocked on the door and disturbed them, she said.

Van Allen said Kelly carried a ‘duffel bag’ with his home-made porn it wherever he went. ‘He carried it everywhere,’ she said. ‘If we was at the studio, it was in the studio with him; if he was at Hoops (his gym) it would be at Hoops with him…the bag would follow him.’

She said she was not there when the tape at the center of this case was made, but identified the alleged victim and Kelly as being on that tape.”

More gems from Van Allen’s testimony:

“R. Kelly’s accountant paid Lisa Van Allen and a Kansas man $20,000 each to return a videotape of Kelly participating in a threesome with Van Allen and the alleged victim in this case.

Van Allen said the $40,000 pay-off, was made to her in March 2007. Kelly personally offered her $250,000, but only $40,000 was handed over, she said. Van Allen said she invested the pay-off in her business. Kelly’s business manager Derrel McDavid, handed over the cash, she said.”
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Hillary Needs To Start Thinking About Tomorrow!

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Seems Like Everyone Except R Kelly Believes It's Him!

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Out Of The Closet, Witness In Sex Trial Points The Finger At R Kelly

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Monday, May 19, 2008

Did R. Kelly Molest His Niece???

Got A feeling R. Kelly Isn't Doing a Lot Of Laughing Now

Things may begin to heat up and take a major turn in the long anticipated R Kelly trial. It seems his brother, Carey Kelly is scheduled to take the stand this week. While we can't be certain of exactly what Carey will say, here are some of the allegations Carey made against his brother in a recent DVD:

- R Kelly was both emotionally and physically abusive towards his ex-wife.
- R Kelly and his ex-wife had an off the wall sex life, that includes frequent ménage-a-trois...
- R Kelly has had a number of inappropriate relationships with underage women - including a sexual relationship with deceased singer/actress Aaliyah.
- R Kelly molested his own niece.
- R Kelly has engaged in numerous gay relationships and his hit song Trapped in the Closet is loosely based on R Kelly's life.

This scoop courtesy of MediaTakeOut.com
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Friday, May 16, 2008

The Man, The Myth, The Legendary Sexcapades With Young Girls? Welcome To R Kelly's World!

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Bitter Party Of One? Barack Tells Hillary "Oh No My Sista, Yo' Mama's An Elitist"

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Friday, April 11, 2008

You Know You Ghetto If... Even Gold Hair Won't Stop People Thinking You Got Issues: Right R Kelly?

Kelly Needs Jesus Y'All

So this is what incredibly talented but deeply troubled R-Kelly’s new promo shots are looking like.

This black man is rockin' the blond look to everyone's chagrin... at least ours anyway. And the braids? Robert my brother, can you say OVERKILL!!

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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Halle Berry, Jay Z, R Kelly, Will Smith & A B2K Sex Scandal Tops Your Special Christmas Day Edition

Halle Berry's Pregnant and her baby belly appears to have doubled overnight. Shopping at the Party Paper Life gift shop in Beverly Hills, the sexy biracial mommy to be was out and about sans model donor Gabriel Aubrey. Don't hate on the White guy family.

Meanwhile, Jean Johnson, 49, used her cellphone camera to snap pictures of R. Kelly during a recent hearing in court and got slammed for it. Ironically, Kelly still hasn't gone to trial on those child porn charges ... After five years. Johnson plead guilty to contempt of court and was sentenced to the five days, but was released for time served.

An Internet rumor that went on ad nauseum, Jay-Z's has finally ditched his Def Jam Post. Giving up or being fired -- whatever works for you -- allows the Donald Trump of hip hop to, in his words, "get back to being a rapper," and ... open a hotel? Jay's boss, L.A. Reid, says he's sorry Jay will be leaving: "He will nonetheless be missed in this executive capacity."

Did Will Smith actually say that Hitler wasn't That Bad? The Jewish Defense League is calling on Barack Obama to repudiate Smith's comments, and wants theaters to pull Smith's new flick "I Am Legend" from their screens. Smith told a Scottish paper that Hitler "didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' ... I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'"

Chris Stokes who managed the band B2K before they broke up, is saying "Hell to the nah!"over allegations he sexually abused former member Demario "Raz-B" Thorton and his brother, Ricardo aka Ricky Romance . "The accusations that Demario "Raz B" Thorton and Ricardo Thorton have made are vehemently false and hold no merit. I have recently stopped financially supporting both individuals along with assisting them with their criminal and legal matters which leads me to believe they are resentful and looking to benefit financially from this," the producer and director maintains.

Pics and stories from TMZ.com
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Is R Kelly STILL In The Habit Of Being A Little Too Close When It Comes To Underage Girls?

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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Church Bombing Killing 4 Alabama Little Girls Is Revisited As Pastor John H. Cross Jr. Dies At 82


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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

New Baby Pacifies R Kelly, Trial From Hell Gets Continue... Again!


This Time It's The People Who Aren't Ready To Go Foward

R Kelly's trial will remain trapped in the closet... for now! After being charged with child pornography against a 14-year-old some five years ago, a Cook County judge has postponed his trial one mo'gain because the lead prosecutor recently had a baby.

The Black R&B star's trial had been scheduled to commence September 17. Kelly's attorneys haven't conceded that he is on the tape, saying his likeness may have been computer generated. They have also tried to raise doubts about the identity and age of the girl.

The case has been hit with delay after delay. Since being charged, Kelly has had six best-selling albums and three nationwide tours.

Kelly was charged in 2002 and is accused of engaging in videotaped sex acts. A new date hasn't been set.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

R. Kelly's 'Trapped in the Closet', But Is He Being Released From Serving Jail Time???


R. Kelly had Target (as in "Attention Target shoppers") mainstays running to the music section days ago to pick up his latest installment of "Trapped in the Closet" version something or other, of his musical drama snippets.

They're entertaining and cute to watch - once.

If you're a fan, then it's not a big deal to pay to find out who's hiding in Robert's room in this latest installment. But, stand in line at Target? - We can wait.

Meanwhile, MTO is reporting that while the R Kelly trial is scheduled to take place next month in Chicago's Cook County, there there may not be a trial after all.

If Trial Goes, Public Will See R. Kelly Videotape

Why? because the talented 40-year-old singer and state prosecutors have continued their efforts to plead out the case. If the Attorney General is unable to get the alleged victim to say in front of 12 jurors that she was the then 14 year-old-girl in the video, it becomes shaky at best to secure a conviction on any of the 14 child pornography counts.

One scenario has Kelly admitting to one charge or a reduced offense and receiving credit for time served (meaning he would not serve ANY additional time in custody). Although a judge would have to co-sign on such a disposition, this could be a win-win for both sides and finally put this pissy ordeal to rest. Stay tuned!
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Thursday, August 2, 2007

R KELLY COMES OUT THE CLOSET AND PREPARES FOR COURTROOM SHOWDOWN ON SEX CHARGES

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