R. Kelly’s team told police in February that hundreds of the singer’s master recordings had been stolen from a storage facility in Illinois, according to TMZ, possibly shining some light on how a “new” Kelly album made it to market.
Kelly, imprisoned at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, is serving a 30-year sentence after being convicted in fall 2021 of sex trafficking and racketeering in a New York federal court. He faces additional sentencing in federal court in Chicago in February after being found guilty in September on three counts of child pornography.
A man named Keith Calbert reported the missing masters, which he said were taken to California “nine months prior” by a couple of roadies, TMZ said. Calbert said he later told the roadies they had to return the recordings, but was told it would cost him $160,000.
