R. Kelly

Judge denies R. Kelly's emergency request to be freed from federal prison. Kelly claimed prison staff plotted to kill him. More

June 20, 2025

R&B singer R. Kelly alleges in new filings that prison officials took him from the hospital against doctor's orders, despite needing surgery. More

June 17, 2025

R. Kelly is seeking release on home detention, claiming federal officials plotted to have him killed to cover up government misconduct. More

June 10, 2025

Minnesota prosecutors drop state sex charges against R. Kelly, citing fact that federal convictions could keep him in prison for life. More

May 17, 2023

A federal judge will sentence R. Kelly for his Chicago convictions of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex on Thursday, More

February 23, 2023

R. Kelly wouldn't be eligible for release until he was around 100 if the judge agrees both to the 25-year sentence and another government request. More

February 17, 2023

Chicago prosecutor to drop sex abuse charges against R. Kelly following federal convictions that should guarantee he'll be locked up for decades. More

January 30, 2023

Ex-R. Kelly manager Donnell Russell sentenced to a year in prison for calling in a shooting threat that halted a screening of a documentary about Kally. More

December 19, 2022

A federal judge will order R. Kelly to pay over $300,000 to one his victims to cover the cost of treatment for herpes and psychotherapy. More

September 28, 2022

Federal prosecutors scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly in Chicago but lost on the charge Kelly obstructed justice in his 2008 child porn case. More

September 16, 2022

A Chicago federal jury convicted R. Kelly on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement but acquitted him on a fourth count. More

September 14, 2022

Chicago jurors deliberate at R. Kelly’s federal trial. He's accused of producing child porn, enticing minors for sex and rigging his child porn trial. More

September 14, 2022

R&B superstar R. Kelly’s musical accomplishments have long been shadowed by allegations that he sexually abused women and children. More

September 14, 2022

R. Kelly’s attorney told jurors the case accusing him of producing child porn, enticing minors and rigging his trial rests on blackmailers' testimony. More

September 13, 2022

Closing arguments began Monday for R. Kelly and two co-defendants on federal charges of trial-fixing, child pornography and enticing minors for sex. More

September 12, 2022

At R. Kelly's Chicago federal trial, ex business manager Derrell McDavid expressed doubts about Kelly’s insistence he never sexually abused minors. More

September 9, 2022

Derrell McDavid, a co-defendant at Kelly’s trial in federal court in Chicago, said he saw no early signs Kelly sought minors for sex. More

September 8, 2022

Music writer Jim DeRogatis is fighting a bid to force him to testify at R&B singer R. Kelly's's federal trial on child pornography and trial-fixing charges. More

September 6, 2022

Singer R. Kelly told a federal judge Thursday that he won't testify at his ongoing trial in Chicago on charges that accuse him of child pornography, enticement of minors for sex and fixing his 2008 state trial. More

September 1, 2022

Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago after presenting two weeks of testimony, including from four Kelly accusers, in their bid to prove the singer enticed underage girls for sex, produced child pornography and successfully rigged his 2008 state trial. More

August 30, 2022

Two more accusers took the witness stand at R. Kelly’s child pornography and solicitation of minors trial. More

August 29, 2022

Defense lawyers at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial in Chicago sought Wednesday to portray a key government witness as a liar and extortionist, contending the man first approached the R&B star in 2001 and demanded that Kelly pay $1 million or he’d go public with video that could put Kelly in serious legal peril. More

August 24, 2022

A former merchandizing agent for R. Kelly testified Tuesday that the singer offered him $1 million to find a VHS tape featuring Kelly as prosecutors sought to persuade jurors that Kelly was desperate to recover the missing recording. More

August 23, 2022

R. Kelly’s legal team will get its chance to question the government’s star witness on Friday after she testified at his federal trial in Chicago that the R&B singer sexually abused her hundreds of times before she turned 18. More

August 19, 2022

By MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who has been central to R. Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades testified Thursday that the R&B singer sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 and that it was her and Kelly in a videotape that was at the heart […] More

August 18, 2022

An attorney for R. Kelly implored jurors at the singer's trial-fixing and child pornography case Wednesday not to accept what she said is the prosecution’s portrayal of her client as “a monster.” More

August 17, 2022

Kelly is accused of enticing minors for sex, of producing child pornography and of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial at which he was acquitted. More

August 17, 2022

R. Kelly's musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children. Now the R&B singer faces a trial in his hometown of Chicago on charges accusing him of rigging his 2008 child pornography trial and of enticing minors for sex. More

August 16, 2022

Jury selection begins Monday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in his hometown of Chicago, where he faces charges that he rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial. More

August 15, 2022

Prosecutors said the harassment campaign stretched from November 2018 to February 2020 after the woman filed a civil lawsuit against Kelly. More

July 27, 2022