For years, I have railed against R. Kelly and those (including Tavis Smiley) who chose to align their brands with him.

https://mrmokelly.com/2011/06/the-lies-of-r-kelly-and-his-truth-for-25-95/

Remember when Tavis announced the R. Kelly book deal…

http://ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/hip-hop-media-training/r-kelly-to-address-controversy-in-new-book.html

Now the really sordid and sadistic details have come out…

I don’t like saying “I told you so,” it’s just so juvenile.  But…

I…

Told…

You…

So…

From “The Village Voice”

The one young woman, who had been 14 or 15 when R. Kelly began a relationship with her, detailed in great length, in her affidavits, a sexual relationship that began at Kenwood Academy: He would go back in the early years of his success and go to Lina McLin’s gospel choir class. She’s a legend in Chicago, gospel royalty. He would go to her sophomore class and hook up with girls afterward and have sex with them. Sometimes buy them a pair of sneakers. Sometimes just letting them hang out in his presence in the recording studio. She detailed the sexual relationship that she was scarred by. It lasted about one and a half to two years, and then he dumped her and she slit her wrists, tried to kill herself. Other girls were involved. She recruited other girls. He picked up other girls and made them all have sex together. A level of specificity that was pretty disgusting.

Her lawsuit was hundreds of pages long, and Kelly countersued. The countersuit was, like, 10 pages long: “None of this is true!” We began our reporting. We knocked on a lot of doors. The lawsuits, the two that we had found initially, had been settled. Kelly had paid the women and their families money and the settlements were sealed by the court. But of course, the initial lawsuits remain part of the public record.

So her affidavit, this testimony — it’s all public record?

To this day, any reporter who so cares can go to Cook County and pull these records, so it drives me crazy, even with some of the eloquent reconsiderations we’ve seen of Kelly in recent days, that they keep saying “rumors” and “allegations”. Well, allegations is fair, OK. You’re protected as a reporter…any lawsuit that has been filed as fact. The contents of the lawsuit are protected. So, these were not rumors. These were allegations made in court.

And there was young woman that was pressured into an abortion?

–That he paid for. There was a young woman that he picked up on the evening on her prom. The relationship lasted a year and a half or two years. Impregnated her, paid for her abortion, had his goons drive her. None of which she wanted. She sued him. The saddest fact I’ve learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody. They have any complaint about the way they are treated: they are “bitches, hos and gold diggers,” plain and simple. Kelly never misbehaved with a single white girl who sued him or that we know of. Mark Anthony Neal, the African American scholar, makes this point : one white girl in Winnetka and the story would have been different. No, it was young black girls and all of them settled. They settled because they felt they could get no justice whatsoever. They didn’t have a chance.

Full story HERE.