Derrick Moseley, a self proclaimed former employee of R. Kelly, has been arrested for extortion after allegedly trying to get $20,000 from a sports agent by claiming to possess videotapes of Yankee slugger Gary Sheffield’s wife having sex with the pied piper.
He appeared in a Chicago federal court Monday on charges of communicating a threat across state lines and wire fraud. Federal authorities say sports agent Rufus Williams called the FBI on November 4 after getting a call from Mosley, who told Williams someone had anonymously mailed two videotapes to him that depicted the wife of one of his clients engaging in “very repulsive” sex acts with a musician.
Williams met up with Mosley the next day tapped with a wire and recorded Mosley telling him that “someone else would have called the tabloids and could have made millions,” according to an affidavit by FBI agent Timothy Keese. “Am I saying I want $1 million? No,” Mosley allegedly said, suggesting that Williams hire him to counsel the athlete’s wife for $20,000 so that she could “atone,” the affidavit said, at which point the tapes would be destroyed.
Though prosecutors did not reveal the name of the athlete or musician, both Kelly and Sheffield were quick to respond to the allegations.
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Sheffield released a statement saying that the he was aware that before their marriage, wife DeLeon Richards had a “long-term relationship with a well-known professional singer over 10 years ago.” While people close to Kelly say they could neither confirm nor deny that the man on the tape is him because nobody from that camp has seen the tape Kelly’s spokesperson Allan Mayer said “We can, however, confirm that no one is suggesting the tape depicts anything but the activities of consenting adults.”
