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The victim at the center of R. Kelly's 2002 sex tape and 2008 trial is finally cooperating with authorities in his current Chicago case.

Joycelyn Savage, former-victim-turned-loyal-girlfriend of sex convict R. Kelly, is now claiming to be engaged to the Pied Piper Of R&B.

Justice has finally been served for Ghislaine Maxwell after a jury found her guilty on five out of six charges in her highly-publicized sex abuse trial as an associate and co-conspirator of late media tycoon and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The family of one of R. Kelly's more infamous girlfriends, Joycelyn Savage, are still reaching out in hopes that she'll escape the Stockholm syndrome he seems to have over her even from prison.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered R&B superstar R. Kelly to stand trial in Chicago on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges next year after the scheduled sentencing for his conviction in an earlier sex trafficking trial in New York.

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R. Kelly told a judge on Wednesday that he won’t take the witness stand at his sex trafficking trial, meaning he’ll avoid the risk of a potentially brutal cross-examination.

The jury in R. Kelly's sex abuse trial will actually be able to see and hear some of his alleged heinous behavior now that a judge gave the okay for prosecutors to provide audio and video evidence of the '12 Play' composer verbally and physically assaulting his accusers.

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After several days of testimony from women claiming they were groomed and sexually abused by R. Kelly, a man took the witness stand at Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial in New York City on Monday to say the R&B star exploited him in the same way when he was a high school student.

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R&B star R. Kelly once compared himself to rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis — notorious for marrying his 13-year-old cousin decades ago — saying they were both misunderstood geniuses, a witness at Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial testified Thursday.

Alfedas' latest "Hot Off The Wire" report includes news of a revealing testimony in R. Kelly's current sex abuse trial, Beyoncé and Jay-Z catching flack in the name of Basquait and Kanye West digging into his childhood for yet another 'DONDA' listening session.

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R. Kelly’s sex crimes trial in a Brooklyn courtroom continues to get underway with bombshell testimony from witnesses and accusers.