R. Kelly

R. Kelly kept an ugly side of his life hidden as he escaped poverty in Chicago and rose to pop music stardom, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the singer’s trial on charges accusing him of enticing girls for sex and rigging a 2008 child pornography case.

A federal jury was impaneled Tuesday in R. Kelly’s hometown of Chicago to decide multiple charges against the R&B singer, as prosecutors and defense attorneys argued toward the end of the process about whether the government was improperly attempting to keep some Blacks off the jury.

Just weeks after being sentenced to 30 years in prison, R&B singer R. Kelly is back in a federal courtroom in Chicago.

Attorneys for R. Kelly have filed a motion in his Chicago trial to excuse potential jurors who have seen any portion of the docu-series “Surviving R. Kelly.”

Federal prosecutors acknowledged Tuesday that a private email account using a fake name was created to obtain an advance copy of a 2019 book about R&B superstar R. Kelly, but they said “none of the emails exchanged using the account were in any way deceptive.”

New claims surfaced Friday about the former lead prosecutor in R&B superstar R. Kelly’s federal case in Chicago, with lawyers for one of his former employees alleging the prosecutor may have developed an inappropriate personal relationship with an alleged victim.

A onetime lead prosecutor on R. Kelly’s case in Chicago’s federal court used a private email account and fake name to engage in "surreptitious" communications with a prominent journalist, lawyers for a onetime Kelly worker have alleged.