R. Kelly

Four years after filing underage sex charges against R&B superstar R. Kelly, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx announced on Monday she is dropping the case.

The federal judge in Chicago who presided over last summer’s trial of R. Kelly and two of the singer’s former employees shot down a request Monday from one of the workers to have the government pay $850,000 in attorneys’ fees.

No motions were heard for the R. Kelly case Wednesday in Chicago court.

R. Kelly’s onetime manager was sentenced Monday to a year in federal prison for calling in a shooting threat that halted a screening of a damning documentary about the R&B star.

Imprisoned R&B star R. Kelly appears to have released a rare public statement from jail Tuesday, imploring people to "just leave my music alone, because it is all I have left, it’s all my fans have left."

R. Kelly's legal team is investigating after they say someone stole his music and illegally released a new album titled "I Admit it."

Convicted R&B superstar R. Kelly’s defense attorney argued Tuesday he deserved to get a new trial or be acquitted on technical grounds despite a federal jury in Chicago finding him guilty on child pornography charges this summer.

Cook County prosecutors on Monday asked for more time to decide on whether to prosecute R&B star R. Kelly on sexual abuse charges involving four Chicago-area women.

R. Kelly’s former business manager is asking a federal judge to award him $850,000 in attorneys’ fees after his acquittal last month on charges that he helped the singer illegally rig his 2008 child-pornography trial.

The judge in R. Kelly’s ongoing state court case told his defense attorney Thursday that going forward he wants the R&B superstar in the courtroom for hearings — though Kelly was excused from attending the next one.

"Moving forward with these cases would be a waste of time, a waste of the state’s resources, a waste of taxpayers’ money," said Steve Greenberg, the attorney representing R. Kelly in the Cook County cases.