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1 on the Billboard album chart, selling more than 532,000 copies in its first week. Kelly’s sixth album, “Chocolate Factory,” debuts at No. He is released the same day on $12,000 bail. January 2003ĭuring a court-approved visit to Miami to shoot a music video, Kelly is arrested and charged with 12 additional counts of child pornography. “Ignition,” Kelly’s sexually explicit first single from “Chocolate Factory,” spends many weeks on various Billboard singles charts. Kelly is charged with 21 counts of child pornography connected with the videotape received by the Sun-Times. Kelly is escorted by a Polk County (Fla.) Sheriff deputy after being indicted on 21 counts of child pornography on June 5, 2002.

Signs a contract with Jive Records and releases “Born into the 90′s.”

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As a teen he brings a portable keyboard to CTA train stops and sings for tips. He attends Kenwood Academy in Hyde Park for a time and sings in a Baptist church choir but never graduates. 8, 1967īorn in Chicago on the South Side, Robert Sylvester Kelly is one of five children who grew up in the Ida B. Here is a brief history of the singer’s rise and troubles: Jan. The jury, which heard from 50 witnesses over the six-week trial, reached its verdict after deliberating for about nine hours over two days. In September 2021, Kelly was convicted by a federal jury in New York of racketeering conspiracy alleging he headed a criminal enterprise that employed agents, runners, bodyguards and others to lure and trap girls and young women to satisfy his sexually predatory desires. Kelly on child pornography charges for making videotapes of himself sexually abusing his then-14-year-old goddaughter decades ago. (Cheryl Cook / Chicago Tribune)Īfter about 11 hours of deliberation, a federal jury in Chicago convicted R&B singer R. A courtroom sketch shows defense attorneys Ashley Cohen, from left, and Jennifer Bonjean with singer R.

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