R. Kelly is continuing to suffer the consequences from his ongoing legal battles. Days after the fallen R&B star was convicted on all charges in his racketeering and sex trafficking case in New York, he’s reportedly being stripped of the “key to the city” honor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
On Monday (September 27), federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York successfully proved he’d been the head of a criminal enterprise, whose “purpose was to lure girls, boys and women to the R&B singer for his sexual gratification.”
Consequently, R. Kelly was convicted on one count of racketeering, with 14 underlying acts that included sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, kidnapping and sex trafficking charges. Kelly was also found guilty of eight additional counts of violations of the Mann Act, a sex trafficking law.
According to TMZ, that was more than enough for former Baton Rouge Metro Council member Denise Marcelle — who originally gave R. Kelly the honor in 2013 — to express her regret. While the process doesn’t actually include physically taking the $256 plaque and key back from Kelly, it will no longer be recognized.
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Marcelle admits she was aware of his previous legal woes and knew he’d been acquitted in 2008 but didn’t do her due diligence in truly digging into his murky past. Now a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, Marcelle still holds the power to rescind the key.
R. Kelly will be sentenced on May 4, 2022 and faces 10 years to life in prison. He still faces two other cases in Minnesota and his hometown of Chicago.
He had gotten off on the child porn charge by a technicality by the time they gave him the key to the city, wtf was they thinking honouring a pedo?
exactly lol he been weird and they was cool with it until the media blew it up… smh
You mean til he ran out of money because if he still had steady cash flow, we wouldn’t be talking about it right now.
It’s Louisiana LMAO!!! C’mon now like they really have high standards to begin with. This state isn’t much better than Florida in the morality,intelligence, politics, and social equality department.
Cancel culure is so fucking stupid. I remember when Michael Kackson paid off the familes of all those little boys to drop the charges. They tried to cancel him, but they couldnt and now he is a legend again. Same thing will happen to R. Kelly. And if all those (adult) women were 100% telling the truth then WTF was they all doing on a TV series ? Smells like another Bill Cosby scam to me. Im not saying he didnt slap em up a couple times but Im pretty sure everything was consensual. They just mad because they thought they could break his bank and they couldnt. Should have just walked away like Aaliyah did. This dude wont be locked up more than 10 years and the next generation will embrace him like they did Michael Jackson.
Wtf is you talking about? Are you forgetting he fucked kids, was busted with child porn more than once, married a 15 year old, had sex with girls as young as 12,13,14,15,16. Keep smoking those crack rocks OG Pedo, either you a troll or else another kiddie lover
Both more than likely.
That’s exactly what MJ was but he’s been deified now. Nonetheless No wrong is really successful. The gain of injustice is loss and the pleasure of Hollywood suffering. #ExpensivePain