July 12, 2025
"I BELIEVE I CAN FLY: How R. Kelly America's R&B King Became a Sexual Predator"
How did the man behind one of the most inspirational songs in music history become one of America's most notorious predators? Reid Carter exposes R. Kelly's three-decade reign of terror, from his secret marriage to 15-year-old Aaliyah to the "cult" allegations that finally awakened America. Discover how the music industry, law enforcement, and society itself protected a monster hiding in plain sight. When your biggest hit is about believing you can fly, the fall to earth is absolutely devastating. Justice isn't always rhythmic, but it's absolutely riveting.
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Warning. This episode contains references to sexual situations that may
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be disturbing to some listeners. Please proceed with caution. Caliogus
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Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter, and welcome to
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Celebrity Trials. While we bring you all the latest from
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current trials happening right now, there aren't many major proceedings
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underway at the moment, so we're taking you back to
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explore some of the greatest celebrity trials ever, cases that
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didn't just make headlines but changed how we think about fame, power,
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and justice. Remember, you don't have to be a celebrity
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going in, but you will be one when the verdict
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comes down. Recently, R. Kelly has been back in the
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news with shocking claims about prison murder plots and attempts
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to secure his release. It's the latest chapter in a
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story that spans three decades of alligationations, denials, and ultimately justice.
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Let's go back to understand how we got here. For
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nearly three decades, Robert Sylvester Kelly was one of the
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most successful R and B artists in history. His hit
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about Believing You Could Fly became an anthem of hope
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and possibility behind the music. However, was a man who
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preyed on young girls and boys, using his fame as
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a weapon and his enterprise as a hunting ground. This
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is the story of how one of America's most beloved
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singers became one of its most notorious predators, and how
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it took a cultural revolution to finally bring him down.
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Let me paint you the picture of R. Kelly's America
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in the nineteen nineties. This was the era of Whitney Houston,
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Mariah Carey and Boys Two Men. R and B was
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the soundtrack of Romance, and Kelly was its undisputed king,
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multiple Grammy Awards, chart topping albums, and a voice that
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could make grown women weep. He wasn't just a musician,
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he was a cultural force. But even during his meteoric rise,
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there were warning signs that everyone chose to ignore. R.
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Kelly meets a twelve year old girl named Aliah Houghton
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through her uncle Barry Hankerson. Kelly is already an established artist,
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twenty four years old and hungry for his next big project.
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Aliyah is a child with an extraordinary voice and dreams
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of stardom. What happened next should have ended Kelly's career
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before it really began. According to court testimony that would
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emerge decades later, Kelly began having sexual contact with Aliyah
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when she was just thirteen or fourteen years old. Think
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about that for a moment. While the world was celebrating
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his musical genius, Kelly was systematically grooming and abusing a child.
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In nineteen ninety four, Kelly produced Aliah's debut album, the
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title age Ain't Nothing But a Number. Even then, he
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was telling us exactly who he was. We just weren't listening.
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August thirty first, nineteen ninety four, in a secret ceremony
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at the Sheraton Gateway Suites in Illinois, twenty seven year
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old R. Kelly married fifteen year old Aliyah. To make
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this legal, Kelly had bribed a state employee to create
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a fake ID listing Aliyah as eighteen years old. Let
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me be clear about what this was. A grown man
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using his wealth and influence to facilitate the rape of
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a child, because that's what sex with a fifteen year
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old is, regardless of what the fake marriage certificate said.
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The marriage was annulled in February nineteen ninety five, but
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the damage was done. Kelly had established a pattern that
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would define the next three decades of his life. Find
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vulnerable young people, groom them, abuse them, and use legal
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maneuvers to avoid consequences. But here's what's truly disturbing about
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the Aliah situation. The music industry knew, record executives knew,
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lawyers knew, and they all decided that Kelly's hit making
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ability was more important than protecting a child. Barry Hankerson,
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Aliah's uncle, and the man who introduced her to Kelly,
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later expressed regret, but in the moment when it mattered,
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the adults who should have protected Aliyah chose profit over protection. Meanwhile,
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Kelly's career soared hit after hit, album after album, and
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always more young girls gravitating toward the man who promised
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to make their dreams come true. Tiffany Hawkins, who had
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met Kelly when she was fifteen and he was twenty four,
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filed a civil lawsuit alleging sexual abuse. The suit detailed
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how Kelly had encouraged her to recruit other underage friends
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for group sexual encounters. Kelly settled the case for two
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hundred fifty thousand dollars, no admission of guilt, no consequences,
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just money changing hands to me make the problem disappear.
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This became the Kelly template. Abuse, get sued, pay settlement,
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continue abusing. The Chicago Sun Times, led by journalist Jim Deregatis,
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began investigating Kelly as early as two thousand. They reported
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that police had made two separate investigations into Kelly having
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sex with underage females, but both investigations were dropped due
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to lack of cooperation from the alleged victims. Here's something
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crucial to understand about predators like Kelly. They don't just
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abuse their victims. They train them to protect their abuser.
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Through a combination of psychological manipulation, financial dependency, and threats,
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victims become complicit in their own exploitation. Kelly perfected this system.
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He would tell young girls they were special, that he
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loved them, that speaking out would destroy not just him,
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but them too. He created a world where victims felt
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responsible for protecting their abuser. February eighth, two thousand and two,
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everything should have changed. That's the day the Chicago Sun
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Times published a story about a videotape that allegedly showed
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Kelly engaging in sexual acts with an underage girl, including
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urinating on her. The tape had been sent to the
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newspaper by an anonymous source. The timing was perfect for
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maximum humiliation. Kelly was scheduled to perform at the opening
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ceremony of the Winter Olympics that same day. While millions
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watched him sing about inspiration and achievement, a video allegedly
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showing him abusing a child was making headlines across America.
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By June two thousand and two, Kelly was indicted in
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Chicago on twenty one counts of child pornography. He was
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arrested in Florida, posted seven hundred fifty thousand dollars bail,
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and was released after one night in jail, one night
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for allegedly producing child pornography. This is where the story
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becomes even more infuriating. Despite overwhelming evidence, despite a video
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that allegedly showed Kelly's face clearly, despite years of accusations
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and settlements, the case dragged on for six years, six
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years during which Kelly continued to tour, continued to make music,
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continued to have access to young fans who worshiped him.
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You know what's fascinating about the two thousand and two
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to two thousand and eight period, Kelly wasn't hiding, he
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wasn't lying low or avoiding the spotlight. He was making
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some of the biggest hits of his career, touring the world,
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and maintaining his image as the king of R and B.
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Because the music industry had made a calculation, Kelly's crimes
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were less important than Kelly's profits. During this period, Kelly
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released multiple albums that went platinum. He collaborated with the
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biggest names in music. He performed at major award shows.
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The machine kept rolling, and everyone involved record labels, radio stations,
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concert venues, fellow artists pretended like nothing was happening. Meanwhile,
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the evidence of his systematic abuse continued to mount. In
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twenty seventeen, Jim Darrow Gaddis published the explosive investigation for
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BuzzFeed that detailed what he called Kelly's cult. Multiple families
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had come forward claiming that Kelly was holding their adult
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daughters against their will in a network of homes in
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Chicago and Atlanta. The allegations were horrifying. Kelly allegedly controlled
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every aspect of these women's lives, from when they could
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eat and sleep to when they could use the bathroom.
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He required them to call him daddy and seek permission
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for basic human functions. Former members of Kelly's inner circle
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described a systematic operation designed to break down young women's
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independence and turn them into completely dependent servants. The women
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were required to wear baggy clothes when not with Kelly,
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forbidden from looking at or speaking to other men, and
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isolated from their families and friends. This wasn't just abuse,
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it was psychological warfare design to destroy a person's sense
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of self. But perhaps most telling was the industry's response
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to these allegations silence. Major artists continued to collaborate with Kelly.
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Radio stations continued to play his music. Record labels continued
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to promote his work. The message was clear, as long
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as Kelly could still sell records, his victims were disposable.
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The Washington Post conducted an extensive investigation into how the
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music industry enabled Kelly. They found that as early as
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nineteen ninety four, Kelly's tour manager had urged Jive Records
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to tell Kelly they wouldn't release his music if he
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continued having incidents with young women and miners after every concert.
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The label chose not to act on this warning epic records.
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Executives allegedly avoided viewing evidence of Kelly's crimes because they
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didn't want to be forced to drop him. When they
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were presented with a tape that allegedly showed Kelly having
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sex with an underage girl, one executive simply warned Kelly's
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assistant that if if it turned out to be Kelly
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on the tape, they would drop him, but they made
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sure not to actually confirm whether it was Kelly on
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the tape. Think about the moral calculation here. These executives
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would rather maintain plausible deniability than protect children from a predator.
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Back in a moment, Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm
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read Carter, and we're exploring how R. Kelly's decades of
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abuse were finally exposed. June thirteenth, two thousand and eight,
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after six years of legal proceedings, a Chicago jury found R.
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Kelly not guilty on all fourteen counts of child pornography.
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How did this happen? Simple the alleged victim, now an adult,
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refused to testify. Kelly's defense team successfully argued that prosecutors
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could didn't prove the identity of the girl in the video,
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and without her testimony, the case fell apart. It was
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a devastating blow to justice and a vindication of Kelly's strategy,
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train your victims so well that they'll protect you even
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when you're on trial for abusing them. Kelly's defense lawyer
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later questioned the acquittal and Kelly's public proclamations of innocence,
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suggesting even his own attorney had doubts about his client's claims.
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But the acquittal gave Kelly a new lease on life.
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He continued touring, continued recording, and continued abusing the legal
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system had given him permission to keep going. For another decade,
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Kelly operated with virtual impunity. There were more allegations, more settlements,
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more young women who mysteriously disappeared into his orbit, but
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America had decided that as long as Kelly could still sing,
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his crimes didn't matter. Then something changed. The Me Too
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movement shifted our cultural understanding of power abuse and victim blaming. Suddenly,
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the excuses that had protected Kelly for decades, Why didn't
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they come forward sooner? Why did they stay? What were
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they expecting? Weren't acceptable anymore. In January twenty nineteen, Lifetime
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aired Surviving R. Kelly a six part documentary series that
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laid out three decades of abuse in excruciating detail. The
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documentary featured interviews with over fifty people, including former Kelly employees,
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family members of victims, and, most importantly, the survivors themselves.
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For the first time, Kelly's victims were given a platform
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to tell their stories without being filtered through defense attorneys
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or hostile cross examination. They spoke about the grooming, the control,
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the isolation, and the systematic destruction of their sense of self.
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The documentary was a cultural earthquake. Within weeks, the Mute R.
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Kelly movement gained massive momentum. Protesters gathered outside Kelly's concerts,
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radio stations pulled his music, streaming services removed him from playlists.
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Most importantly, RCA Records dropped Kelly after the documentary aired.
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After decades of profiting from his music while ignoring his crimes,
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the label finally decided that the cost of association had
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become too high. But the real impact of Surviving R.
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Kelly wasn't commercial. It was legal. February twenty second, twenty nineteen,
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Kelly was charged with ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual
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abuse in Chicago. The charges alleged that from nineteen ninety
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eight to twenty ten, Kelly had sexually abused four females,
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three of whom were miners at the time. But this
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was just the beginning. Federal investigators had been building a
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case that would dwarf the state charges. July eleventh, twenty nineteen,
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Kelly was arrested on federal charges including racketeering, sex trafficking,
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and obstruction of justice. These weren't just abuse charges, they
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were organized crime charges that treated Kelly's operation as a
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criminal enterprise. The federal indictment painted a picture of Kelly
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as the leader of a criminal organization that existed for
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one purpose, to facilitate his sexual abuse of miners and
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young women. Here's what's fascinating about the R. Kelly case.
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For decades, everyone knew. The music industry knew, law enforcement knew,
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the media knew, his family and friends knew. His collaborators
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and employees knew. But as long as the hits kept
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coming and the money kept flowing, they all chose to
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look the other way. It wasn't ignorance that protected Kelly.
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It was wilful blindness motivated by greed. Record executives who
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claimed they never concerned themselves with Kelly's private life were lying.
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You don't accidentally ignore three decades of abuse allegations. You
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don't accidentally fail to know when teenage girls are being
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shuttled to your star's hotel rooms after every concert. The
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Kelly case reveals something ugly about American culture. We'll tolerate
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almost anything from someone who entertains us. We'll excuse the inexcusable,
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rationalize the unforgivable, and blame the victims instead of holding
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the perpetrator accountable. For thirty years, we treated R. Kelly's
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victims like they were lying, gold digging, attention seeking troublemakers.
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Turns out the only liar was the man behind the microphone.
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Kelly's downfall wasn't inevitable. It was the result of a
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cultural shift that finally valued victim's voices over a predator's profits.
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Surviving R. Kelly didn't reveal anything new. It just presented
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old truths in a way that society was finally ready
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to hear. Tomorrow, we'll explore how federal prosecutors built an
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ironclad case against Kelly using racketeering laws designed to take
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down organized crime. Bosses. We'll see how Kelly's own words,
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his own rules, and his own systematic abuse became the
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evidence that finally brought him down, and we'll examine his
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current desperate attempts to escape justice, including wild claims about
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prison assassination plots that reveal the mindset of a predator
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who still can't accept responsibility for his crimes. I'm read
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Carter with celebrity trials. Remember, the most dangerous criminals aren't
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always the ones who look evil. Sometimes they're the ones
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