R. Kelly’s child pornography trial briefly delayed on Thursday when crazed fan Debra Triplett gained access to a freight elevator reserved for the jurors in the courthouse and began to shout “Free R. Kelly!” repeatedly, until she was arrested by police.
Debra is being held on $50,000 bond, she is due back in court for a hearing on June 25th.
Opening arguments have begun in R. Kelly’s long-awaited child pornography trial. The forty-one year old singer is accused of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl who prosecutors say was between thirteen and sixteen when the tape was made between Jan. 1, 1998, and Nov. 1, 2000. The alleged victim, now twenty-three, maintains she is not the girl featured in the infamous sex tape.
“A child doesn’t choose to be violated and placed on a videotape, a videotape that will live on forever — long after this child becomes an adult,” Cook County prosecutor Shauna Boliker told jurors during opening arguments.
R. Kelly has released a statement confirming that he boinked his former publicist’s twenty-one year old daughter, Maxine, but the forty-one year old Uncle Chester maintains that everyone was A-OK with, and even encouraged the May/December romance. Read the rest of this entry »
R. Kelly is reportedly dating convicted shoplifter and American Idol Season 2 finalist, Trenyce Cobbins. Being that Trenyce is actually old enough to drive, we don’t buy it, but we’ll see what transpires. The forty year old supposedly fell for the twenty-seven year old singer after meeting her last April through a mutal friend. Read the rest of this entry »
A judge issued a bench warrant for R. Kelly after he did not show for a court hearing in his child porn case in Chicago on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »