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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Kenan Draughorne

R. Kelly reportedly got engaged to one of his alleged victims before his sentencing

R. Kelly was convicted of multiple sex-trafficking crimes in September and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison last month. But before he was sentenced, one of his alleged victims claimed the two are actually engaged, and that he's anything but an abuser.

Joycelyn Savage was one of the R&B artist's girlfriends who have stuck by him throughout his legal proceedings. In a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Ann Donnelly on June 13, Savage pleaded for leniency toward Kelly, while also revealing that the two were set to be married.

"My name is Joycelyn Savage, and I'm Robert Kelly's fiancé(e)," she wrote to Judge Ann Donnelly in court documents viewed by the Los Angeles Times. "I'm writing this letter in support of Robert in advance of his sentencing, so I can explain to the court that I'm not the victim that the government has portrayed me to be."

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