What Finally Brought R. Kelly Down
To convict the R&B singer, prosecutors focused on his network of enablers.
by Spencer Kornhaber
Sep 28, 2021
3 minutes
For the past six weeks in a Brooklyn courtroom, witnesses have shared stories of rape, violence, entrapment, humiliation, and manipulation by the R&B singer R. Kelly. These tales would be called shocking if many of them had not already circulated in the public eye—in , and —at least since Robert Kelly married an underage Aaliyah in 1994. The last time he faced prosecution, in 2008 on child-pornography charges, a jury found him not guilty. He’s signed over the years to keep some accusers quiet, and alleged victims who have
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