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R. Kelly’s new Chicago trial to take jurors back to peak of star’s career, early allegations

Kelly’s defense attorney calls the trial starting Monday “total and complete overkill.” But legal experts say it could help vindicate other accusers and ensure the superstar remains in prison.

Chicago Sun-Times

R Kelly accuser to give key testimony on trial-fixing charge

R. Kelly’s federal trial that starts Monday in Chicago is in many ways a do-over of his child pornography trial in 2008 in state court

The Independent UK

R Kelly’s ‘fiancée’ Joycelyn Savage claims she is pregnant

Alleged victim of Kelly has published a short e-book about her relationship with the rapper

The Independent UK

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Attorneys continue sparring over prosecutor’s contact with R. Kelly witness in days before Chicago federal trial

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors this week shot back against accusations that the former lead prosecutor on the R. Kelly case had inappropriate contact with potential witnesses, saying much of the purportedly suspicious contact between her and a key victim had to do merely with scheduling and logistics.

Chicago Tribune

Ald. Sophia King joins mayoral race, Virtue chef Damarr Brown dishes on his career and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Chicago Sun-Times

Who’s Who in R. Kelly’s Chicago trial?

The R&B singer will face another Chicago jury on Aug. 15, 2022. Here’s who he is and who else will be in the courtroom throughout the trial.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Chicago Sun-Times’ R. Kelly archives

Original reporting on R. Kelly from the Chicago Sun-Times has been republished just before the R&B star goes back to court in August 2022.

Chicago Sun-Times

Allegation of inappropriate witness contact by R. Kelly prosecutor raises temperature as trial nears

CHICAGO — With little more than a week to go until jury selection, R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago is shaping up to be a hotblooded, bare-knuckle legal brawl.

Chicago Tribune

More claims made about former lead prosecutor in R. Kelly’s federal case in Chicago

Lawyers for one of Kelly’s co-defendants say the prosecutor identified an alleged Kelly victim as “Boss Baby” in her phone contact list and developed an inappropriate relationship with her.

Chicago Sun-Times

A look at Chicago’s pharmacy deserts, Highland Park shooting suspect’s not guilty plea and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Emails sent from R. Kelly prosecutor’s burner account to author of singer’s book at issue as trial looms

CHICAGO — The Chicago federal case against R. Kelly took yet another strange twist Wednesday when it was revealed that the onetime lead prosecutor used a burner email account and a fake name to communicate with the author of a book on Kelly’s sexual misconduct.

Chicago Tribune

R. Kelly prosecutor accused of using fake name, private email to communicate with journalist

The claim by attorneys for former Kelly worker Derrel McDavid landed less than two weeks before Kelly is set to go on trial in Chicago’s federal court on Aug. 15.

Chicago Sun-Times

R Kelly’s sisters refuse to acknowledge victims and say sex abuse sentence was 'racist'

Disgraced 90s singer R. Kelly, 55, was branded a 'predator' who used his fame to 'prey on the young, the vulnerable, and the voiceless for his own sexual gratification' following his conviction

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The Independent UK

Self-described R. Kelly manager pleads guilty to stalking

A self-described manager and adviser to singer R. Kelly has pleaded guilty to an interstate stalking charge

The Independent UK

R. Kelly's manager faces trial over theater-emptying threat

The trial of R. Kelly’s manager has opened on charges that he forced the cancellation of a screening of a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls by calling in a threat to the crowded Manhattan theater

Chicago Sun-Times

Trial of 4 charged in ComEd bribery case rescheduled for March

The four are accused of arranging for then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s associates and allies to get jobs, contracts and money in order to influence Madigan as key legislation worked its way through Springfield.

The Independent UK

Disgraced R&B star R. Kelly back in Chicago for sex trial

R. Kelly has returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking

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Chicago Tribune

R. Kelly back in Chicago’s federal jail ahead of trial next month

CHICAGO — After being held for more than a year in Brooklyn, Chicago-born R&B star R. Kelly was back at the federal jail in the Loop on Wednesday in advance of his second criminal trial set for next month.

Evening Standard

R. Kelly ‘engaged to alleged victim Joycelyn Savage’

Gerald Griggs, an attorney for Ms Savage’s family, said the engagement was not known to her family

Los Angeles Times

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.

The Independent UK

R Kelly reportedly engaged to alleged victim Joycelyn Savage: ‘Robert and I are deeply in love’

‘We have a very special connection and are deeply in love,’ the alleged victim wrote in letter to federal judge

The Independent UK

Highland Park shooting suspect’s father ‘may have certain responsibility’ for attack police warn

Bob Crimo sponsored son’s firearms licence despite police being called to family home two months earlier because he threatened to ‘kill everyone’

The Independent UK

Highland Park suspect Robert Crimo’s parents being made scapegoats for gun control failures, attorney says

Crimo’s parents hired attorney Steve Greenberg, who also represents R Kelly

Evening Standard

R Kelly taken off suicide watch in prison after 30-year sentence

R Kelly has been removed from suicide watch in prison, after the singer previously claimed the protective treatment was a form of punishment.

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