R&B singer R. Kelly’s federal trial starts this week, with opening statements slated for Wednesday. The trial comes after years of frustration among women who say they were sexually abused by Kelly, who denies any wrongdoing.
, will unfold under coronavirus precautions restricting the press and the public to overflow courtrooms with video feeds.
With the dawn of the #MeToo era, Kelly came under renewed media scrutiny fueled by the widely watched “Surviving R. Kelly.” The work in part delves into how a cadre of supporters protected Kelly and silenced his victims for decades, foreshadowing a federal racketeering conspiracy case that landed in Kelly in jail in 2019. He was initially behind bars in Chicago beforeThe New York case is only part of the legal peril facing the singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly.
Prosecutors paint a different picture, detailing how an enterprise of managers, bodyguards and other employees helped Kelly recruit and transport women and girls for sex. The travel violated the Mann Act, the 1910 law that made it illegal to “transport any woman or girl” across state lines “for any immoral purpose” — the same law that sent rock legend Chuck Berry to prison in 1959.
Kelly had rules barring partners leaving their room to eat to go to the bathroom without receiving his permission and from looking at other men. He told them how they should dress, and required them to call him “Daddy.”
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