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Given the entertainment industry prefers simple messages, forcefully packaged, there’s an inconvenient irony to the latest Michael Jackson documentary landing just as Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody continues its grimly disingenuous awards run... ...Last week, the Atlantic published a lengthy investigation, relying on more than 50 sources, alleging the X-Men director’s predatory and abusive behaviour – including rape –towards young men and underage boys. Many of the teenagers were vulnerable and without family support. The magazine builds a powerful case that friends, associates and ultimately his industry aided and abetted Singer. Yet Avi Lerner, whose Millennium Films is the studio producing...

Every day, a new detail is reported about the slew of sexual accusations against R&B singer R. Kelly. Every day a new musician or celebrity is speaking out against the music icon. The only problem: This is a decades-old story. The call to action is, disgustingly, about 15 years too late.

R Kelly has denied canceled upcoming concerts scheduled as part of his After Party tour just weeks after doing the same over allegations of running a sex cult. The 50-year-old singer took to Instagram to share a short video to refute TMZ's Monday report that he had scuttled two shows in Louisiana, one in Dallas and another in Los Angeles. In the short clip he says: 'Yo what's up Mt. Pleasant, Michigan it's your boy Kells and I just want y'all to know that I'm five minutes away from your city, I'm ready to do my thing and I want...

An arraignment date has been set Wednesday for R & B singer R. Kelly's teenage nephew who allegedly tried to rob a barber shop but was shot by the owner last month. Brayel Kelly, 16, will be arraigned on three counts of attempted first-degree murder, and one count each of aggravated discharge of a firearm and attempted armed robbery on Dec. 23, Cook County State's Attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said. Cook County Judge Reginald Baker set bond for Brayel Kelly of Calumet City at $200,000, according to Cook County State's Attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin. Kelly was charged as...

A Cook County jury on Friday acquitted R&B superstar R. Kelly of child pornography charges, marking the end of a high-profile trial rich in courtroom drama and celebrity intrigue. The 41-year-old singer, whose real name is Robert Kelly, long denied charges that he videotaped himself engaging in a variety of sex acts with his then-underage goddaughter. Authorities said the female in the video could have been as young as 13 at the time. The jury of nine men and three women deliberated for 7 ½ hours before finding Kelly not guilty on all 14 counts. As the verdicts kept coming...

The Chicago media were all agush on May 4th over the opening of Oprah Winfrey's musical treatment of The Color Purple. Breathless were the reports of who was in attendance and star struck was the celeb watching as the limos pulled up in front of the Cadillac Palace Theatre in downtown Chicago. But one "celebrity" that was invited by Oprah to attend the opening performance should raise eyebrows and should have spawned condemnation of Oprah Winfrey for his invitation; yet, the media was strangely silent about the impropriety of the invite. Before I go on with who the off color...

The recent South Park TV episode in which South Park educates the global community through humor on the dangers of the destructive, mind control cult Scientology has done a great service to societies and families everywhere their show airs around the world.

Tonight on South Park: Episode 912, "Trapped in the Closet" Stan is the Chosen One in an all-new episode of "South Park" premiering Wednesday, November 16 at 10:00 P.M. on Comedy Central Religious leaders believe Stan is the new “Golden Child” and a whole soap opera unfolds with the help of a famous R&B singer in an all new episode of "South Park," entitled "Trapped in the Closet," premiering Wednesday, November 16 at 10:00 p.m. on Comedy Central. While Stan looks to a new religion for answers, the church leaders recognize Stan as the second coming. Some A-List Hollywood celebrities...

Agent: Minister Tried To Get $20,000 Over R. Kelly Sex Tape CHICAGO -- The alleged victim of an extortion plot by a Chicago-area minister has been identified as the wife of New York Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield, NBC5's Anna Davlantes reported. Rufus Williams, Sheffield's manager, released the information in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Williams said the Rev. Derrick Mosley, a self-proclaimed community activist, tried to obtain $20,000 from him in exchange for a videotape that allegedly contains images of Sheffield's wife having sex with R & B star R. Kelly. Williams said he went to the FBI after Mosley...

NEW YORK Oct 30, 2004 — A member of rapper Jay-Z's entourage released pepper spray at R. Kelly during a joint concert at Madison Square Garden, Kelly's publicist said. The spraying happened about an hour into Friday night's show, when Kelly walked on stage and said he saw two people in the audience waving guns, publicist Allan Mayer said. Kelly abruptly stopped his set around 9:30 p.m. while arena security employees searched for weapons. Finding none, guards told Kelly it was safe to continue performing, Mayer said. But as the singer was making his way back to the stage, a...

O'REILLY: All right. Well, let's cede that it is a role model organization. I believe I'm a role model for some people. I'm not going to hang around with somebody who's going to have to stand trial on child pornography, sir. Because although you're right, you're innocent until proven guilty... CLYBURN: That's true. O'REILLY: ... you are judged on your associations. I want to see that adjudicated before I let that person in my living room, sir. CLYBURN: And the last time I checked, you were palling around with people like Rush Limbaugh (search)... O'REILLY: I've never met the man...

So, how does the NAACP choose to celebrate Black History Month? Among other things, they've nominated alleged rapist, child pornographer and drug addict R. Kelly for their annual image award. An acclaimed R and B singer, Kelly was charged in 2002 with 21 counts of child pornography after a video that allegedly depicted him having sex with a 13-year-old girl made the rounds. Shortly thereafter a Florida sheriff's detective discovered a digital camera that authorities say depicts Kelly engaging in sexual activity with a minor. The camera was wrapped in a towel and stuffed in a duffel bag in Kelly's...

A Cook County judge has given R-and-B star R-Kelly permission to travel to Los Angeles to attend next month's Grammy Awards -- but he can't associate with pop star Michael Jackson. Kelly faces child pornography charges, and Jackson is charged in a child molestation case. A spokesman for Cook County prosecutors says the judge's order allows Kelly to leave Chicago by bus today. After the February Eighth awards ceremony, the order calls for Kelly to be back in Chicago by February 18th. Judge Vincent Gaughan (gone) issued the order in Chicago on Monday.

<p>The NAACP recently released the list of nominees for its annual Image Awards. Over more than three decades, the NAACP has bestowed its award on many respectable and deserving Americans, including civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks and astronaut Ronald McNair, and musical artists such as Ella Fitzgerald. But allowing someone who has been charged with child pornography in two states to remain among the nominees hurts the image of the NAACP itself.</p>

DECEMBER 2--Alleged pedophile R. Kelly is one inventive guy. The 36-year-old R&B singer is under indictment on child porn charges in Florida (where he allegedly possessed illicit still images) and Illinois (where he supposedly filmed himself with a young girl). When he was nabbed earlier this year in Miami, Kelly told cops, according to the below police report, that "former managers" might have been trying to set him up, "taking pictures of people that look like me" cavorting with the underaged. Kelly has now extended that defense, as it were, to his Cook County case, according to a motion filed...

Last Updated: Sunday, 14 September, 2003, 18:40 GMT 19:40 UK R Kelly compares himself to Bin Laden R Kelly has protested his innocence over the charges Troubled R'n'B star R Kelly says Osama Bin Laden is the only person who could understand the torment of his being accused of child pornography. The singer has been charged with 21 offences of child pornography, stemming from a video alleged to show him having sex with an underage girl. He has denied all the charges. People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts," Mr Kelly tells Blender magazine. "They...

NEW YORK -- R. Kelly, who gained fame with songs such as "I Believe I Can Fly," now compares himself to Osama bin Laden. The R&B singer was indicted last year on child pornography charges after a videotape purportedly showed him having sex with an underage girl. Kelly, who's free on bond, has denied the charges. "People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts," Kelly tells Blender magazine in its October issue. "They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the...

NEW YORK (AP) -- R. Kelly, who gained fame with songs such as "I Believe I Can Fly," now compares himself to Osama bin Laden. The R&B singer was indicted last year on child pornography charges after a videotape purportedly showed him having sex with an underage girl. Kelly, who's free on bond, has denied the charges. "People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts," Kelly tells Blender magazine in its October issue. "They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're,...

Because of the way sex offender registries work today, I have a question for you: Would you purposefully move your wife and three beautiful young daughters into a house if you knew it was located right next door to a registered sex offender? Unless there is something completely out of whack in your ability to understand the question as I asked it, the answer would be NO! OK, let me back up the argument a bit. Maybe there was no court that had ruled as such; maybe there was no personal testimony. But what if when you were talking to...

Hilarious Hillary... How much of a PR nightmare must one endure before someone pulls the plug? Check out the latest reaction from Americans polled by ABC NEWS. Hillary loses ground if pitted against Bush in every region of the country. But this didn't stop her from going on TV last night and giving more non-answers with 20/20's Barbara Walters. Former Clinton insider who mysteriously had her article critical of Hillary spiked a couple of weeks ago is out today with kind of a revamped version of it. Susan Estrich firmly believes that the Clinton machine is sucking up all of...