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Prosecutors reveal details of sex abuse allegations against R. Kelly

CHICAGO _R. Kelly was ordered held on $1 million bond Saturday by a Cook County judge who called the allegations of sexual abuse against the singer "disturbing."

Prosecutors alleged that Kelly sexually abused one woman and three underage girls in separate attacks over a dozen years.

Prosecutors said Kelly's 24-year-old hairdresser came to braid his

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