The six episodes “feature women who described being controlled or abused by him,” the New York Times reported, “often when they were teenagers, as well as associates and relatives of the singer." The six hours of documentary consist in large part of on-the-record testimonies of women - by turns scorching and heartbreaking - who say Kelly approached them when they were underage and then assaulted or abused them. Kelly, which premiered on Lifetime two weekends ago and has been running incessantly on the channel since. Today, 10 years later, he’s back in the news thanks to Surviving R. Kelly and his team have always denied that he had sex with minors or that he filmed children having sex, and all of the other assault and abuse charges against him. The tape was shown publicly to jurors one woman testified that she knew the tape featured Kelly and the particular girl because the witness had herself participated in group sex several times with the pair, which the star had also filmed.īut prosecutors could not convince the jury, and in June 2008, he was acquitted. They opted to charge Kelly with making child pornography. When his case went to trial, prosecutors could not get the young woman in the video or her family to testify. Then they argued that the girl was an adult. They argued that the man on the tape was actually the singer’s brother. Kelly’s legal team said that it was not Kelly on the tape, then suggested that he’d been inserted into it by computer manipulation. It took local prosecutors six years to get him on trial. The story DeRogatis and Pallasch wrote about the tape soon produced legal charges against Kelly, which the star fought aggressively. The girl was identified by family members as being 14 at the time, and she was referred to by name by Kelly on the tape.
The tape ended with Kelly urinating in the girl’s mouth.
Kelly having sex with a girl who looked an awful lot like the daughter of one of the members of his entourage. The pair’s pursuit of the story paid off, in a way, a year later, when DeRogatis received an anonymous package - a VHS tape that showed someone who looked a lot like R. Kelly was known as a protean pop auteur who’d produced the uplifting megahit “I Believe I Can Fly” - and also rougher R&B tracks filled with innuendo and raw sexuality.ĭeRogatis, the paper’s pop critic, teamed up with Abdon Pallasch, a court reporter at the paper, and produced a bombshell story in December of that year detailing charges that Kelly had been having sex with underage girls. In 2000, Jim DeRogatis, a writer at the Chicago Sun-Times, began looking into allegations he’d been hearing about a superstar who’d been raised on the city’s South Side.
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