“We will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that this predator is brought to justice,” Avenatti, 47, tweeted. For decades the artist – real name Robert Sylvester Kelly – has faced lawsuits and accusations over child pornography, sex with minors, operating a sex cult and sexual battery. In 1994 he wed his protege Aaliyah, the late R&B star who was 15 at the time. Kelly, then 27, had produced the teenage singer’s debut album titled Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number. But last month’s release of an explosive docuseries entitled Surviving R Kelly has shed new light on the R&B luminary’s checkered past, while a #MuteRKelly movement aimed at preventing his music from airing has gained steam.

Source: The Express Tribune February 15, 2019 09:45 UTC