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The R. Kelly trial: a timeline
Brut America
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3/25/2025
R. Kelly faces decades in prison after being found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
Here's a complete timeline of the sexual misconduct accusations he has faced over the past 30 years.
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There was the craziness with Aaliyah.
00:29
There was a marriage certificate that said he'd married her when she was 18 and he was
00:34
27, except she was 15 and that was in all the press surrounding the debut album that
00:40
he had written and produced for her, which he called Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number.
01:00
Everybody seems to think that y'all are either girlfriend or boyfriend or cousins.
01:04
No, we're not related at all.
01:06
No, we're just very close.
01:08
He's my best friend.
01:09
In the whole wide world.
01:11
In the whole wide world.
01:29
There were whispers throughout the music community throughout Chicago, the black and the black
01:43
communities of the South and West sides that Kelly would often cruise high schools and
01:49
the Rock and Roll McDonald's and the Evergreen Plaza shopping mall.
02:29
Many people will assume that means you were guilty.
02:49
Why'd you settle?
02:50
At the time I had a lot of good things in my life going on musically and this is not
02:53
a good time to go to court over something like that.
02:57
So if you settle, it'd be better.
03:27
Six years has been long enough.
03:42
We want no more delays.
03:44
We want him prosecuted now.
03:54
I love R. Kelly and I know he didn't do it.
03:56
I know that's not him.
03:58
They just want to bring him down and kill his image.
04:00
We want him in jail.
04:01
There's a tape of him urinating and having sex with a young girl.
04:11
Yes, he was acquitted.
04:17
But the jurors who saw that video were horrified.
04:21
It is the most disgusting and horrible thing I've ever seen in my life.
04:29
Do you like teenage girls?
04:33
When you say teenage, how are we talking?
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Girls who are teenagers.
04:40
19?
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19 and younger.
04:43
I have some 19 year old friends.
04:46
Got a new album coming out.
04:47
Yeah, what's it called?
04:48
Black Panties.
05:15
She trains you to please him sexually.
05:23
Went out there to a tour bus and you have him naked and you have her naked.
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He told me to look at her and he said she's going to teach you everything you need to
05:33
know.
05:34
Black girls matter!
05:35
Black girls matter!
05:36
Black girls matter!
05:47
I can't get it out of my mind what I saw and what happened.
05:52
I want to send a message to anyone who believes she was a victim of R. Kelly's.
06:00
Victims should not be ashamed.
06:02
48 women cannot be lying.
06:06
Women that I've talked to for 19 years of reporting across the country, separated by
06:11
decades, telling the same story, who have never met each other, cannot all be lying.
06:36
What are the lies that you're hearing that disturb you most?
06:51
Little girls trapped in the basement, handcuffing people, starving people.
06:55
I have a harem, what you call it, a cult.
06:59
That's your explanation, they're lying on you.
07:01
Absolutely.
07:02
I'm fighting for my f***ing life!
07:33
This man is the worst predator in the history of popular music, an art form with a long
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and ignoble history of men treating women badly.
07:42
I have been practicing law for 47 years.
08:04
During this time, I have pursued many sexual predators who have committed crimes against
08:10
women and children.
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Of all the predators that I have pursued, however, Mr. Kelly is the worst.
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