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.
Here's a complete timeline of the sexual misconduct accusations he has faced over the past 30 years.
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00:00There was the craziness with Aaliyah.
00:29There was a marriage certificate that said he'd married her when she was 18 and he was
00:3427, except she was 15 and that was in all the press surrounding the debut album that
00:40he had written and produced for her, which he called Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number.
01:00Everybody seems to think that y'all are either girlfriend or boyfriend or cousins.
01:04No, we're not related at all.
01:06No, we're just very close.
01:08He's my best friend.
01:09In the whole wide world.
01:11In the whole wide world.
01:29There were whispers throughout the music community throughout Chicago, the black and the black
01:43communities of the South and West sides that Kelly would often cruise high schools and
01:49the Rock and Roll McDonald's and the Evergreen Plaza shopping mall.
02:29Many people will assume that means you were guilty.
02:49Why'd you settle?
02:50At the time I had a lot of good things in my life going on musically and this is not
02:53a good time to go to court over something like that.
02:57So if you settle, it'd be better.
03:27Six years has been long enough.
03:42We want no more delays.
03:44We want him prosecuted now.
03:54I love R. Kelly and I know he didn't do it.
03:56I know that's not him.
03:58They just want to bring him down and kill his image.
04:00We want him in jail.
04:01There's a tape of him urinating and having sex with a young girl.
04:11Yes, he was acquitted.
04:17But the jurors who saw that video were horrified.
04:21It is the most disgusting and horrible thing I've ever seen in my life.
04:29Do you like teenage girls?
04:33When you say teenage, how are we talking?
04:38Girls who are teenagers.
04:4019?
04:4119 and younger.
04:43I have some 19 year old friends.
04:46Got a new album coming out.
04:47Yeah, what's it called?
04:48Black Panties.
05:15She trains you to please him sexually.
05:23Went out there to a tour bus and you have him naked and you have her naked.
05:28He told me to look at her and he said she's going to teach you everything you need to
05:33know.
05:34Black girls matter!
05:35Black girls matter!
05:36Black girls matter!
05:47I can't get it out of my mind what I saw and what happened.
05:52I want to send a message to anyone who believes she was a victim of R. Kelly's.
06:00Victims should not be ashamed.
06:0248 women cannot be lying.
06:06Women that I've talked to for 19 years of reporting across the country, separated by
06:11decades, telling the same story, who have never met each other, cannot all be lying.
06:36What are the lies that you're hearing that disturb you most?
06:51Little girls trapped in the basement, handcuffing people, starving people.
06:55I have a harem, what you call it, a cult.
06:59That's your explanation, they're lying on you.
07:01Absolutely.
07:02I'm fighting for my f***ing life!
07:33This man is the worst predator in the history of popular music, an art form with a long
07:38and ignoble history of men treating women badly.
07:42I have been practicing law for 47 years.
08:04During this time, I have pursued many sexual predators who have committed crimes against
08:10women and children.
08:12Of all the predators that I have pursued, however, Mr. Kelly is the worst.