A brand new videotape that allegedly reveals R. Kelly sexually assaulting an underage lady has surfaced, in accordance with CNN and Jim DeRogatis for The New Yorker. CNN reviews that the lady within the alleged video “refers to her body parts as 14 years old.” A senior regulation enforcement official instructed DeRogatis that the videotape “may soon lead to [Kelly’s] indictment in Illinois.” In addition, in accordance with DeRogatis, “a law enforcement official said that an indictment is pending and Kelly could be arrested soon.”
R. Kelly’s lawyer Steve Greenberg instructed CNN, “We are unaware of any new information involving Mr. Kelly…. We have not been contacted by anyone. We have not been informed about any new information by anyone and we have not been contacted by law enforcement.” In addition, when contacted by Pitchfork, Tandra R. Simonton (Chief Communications Officer on the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago) stated, “We cannot confirm or deny an investigation.”
The lawyer Michael J. Avenatti tweeted in January, “Since April, I have been working on the R. Kelly matter. The results of that work will soon be known. We are going to blow this wide open for the sake of each of his victims and one less pedophile will be free. Count on it.” According to CNN, Avenatti is representing “a whistleblower against Kelly.”
Today (February 14), the lawyer released a statement on Twitter, writing, “Included in the evidence we recently uncovered and recovered is a VHS videotape of Mr. Kelly engaging in multiple sexual assaults of a girl underage. This tape, which is clear, is approximately 45 minutes in length and has never previously been publicly disclosed or, until recently, provided to law enforcement.” Avenatti additionally wrote that he “provided extensive information, including the videotape” to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.
When contacted by Pitchfork, Avenatti stated, “As a father to two teenage girls, this work has been especially satisfying. I am confident justice is about to be done.” In addition, he instructed CNN, “My client knows the identity of the girl and R. Kelly. He identified the two of them on the videotape. He worked for and has known R. Kelly for decades and he met the girl on a number of occasions.”
Pitchfork has contacted R. Kelly’s representatives and Kelly’s lawyer Steve Greenberg.
R. Kelly continues to face allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct, most just lately outlined within the Lifetime sequence “Surviving R. Kelly.” Kelly has regularly denied the allegations.
In 2002, Jim DeRogatis (then with the Chicago Sun-Times) anonymously obtained a video tape that allegedly confirmed R. Kelly having intercourse with an underage lady. DeRogatis turned the tape over to the police, and later that yr, Kelly was charged with making youngster pornography. When known as to trial, DeRogatis pled the Fifth Amendment. In 2008, Kelly was acquitted on all prices.
In 2017, Jim DeRogatis broke a story for BuzzFeed News during which a number of ladies claimed that R. Kelly had manipulated their lives in a “cult.”
Read “The Struggle to Silence R. Kelly” on the Pitch.
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