R KELLY DENIES UNDERAGE SEX CLAIMS

It's reported that a source had given a Chicago paper videotaped evidence of the star's guilt...

R&B kingpin R Kelly has proclaimed his innocence as CHICAGO police launch an investigation into allegations he had sex with an underage girl.

The Chicago Sun-Times broke a story last Friday (February 8) saying an anonymous source had given them a videotape that contains almost 27 minutes of footage of R Kelly having sex with a 14-year-old girl. The newspaper passed the tape to the Chicago police.

“It’s very difficult for me, but, you know, I’m innocent,” R Kelly said later that day. “It’s crap, and that’s how we’re going to treat it. All I know is this: I have a few people in the past that I’ve fired… people that I’ve thought were my friends that’s not my friends.

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“Ever since then it’s been threats on what they’re gonna do to me if I don’t pay them this, they’ll put a story out… and when I refuse to pay them, and now here come this story.”

However, it is not the first time R Kelly, a Chicago native, has faced such allegations. His protege a href=”https://www.nme.com/artists/112343..htm.htm”>Aaliyah, who died tragically in a plane crash last year, was rumoured to be 15 when she married the star. And a lawyer who has filed two lawsuits against R Kelly claiming that the singer had sex with underage girls said the family of the girl pictured in the tape sent to the Sun-Times had contacted her. The girl is now 17.

“We have been contacted by them over a week ago. I’ve had discussions with the family,” said Susan E Loggans, representing Tiffany Hawkins and Tracy Sampson, who claim they were 15 and 17, respectively, when R Kelly had sex with them. “I think the whole thing is coming out, which is probably healthy.”

The Sun-Times also claim Chicago police first began investigating allegations about R Kelly and the girl on the videotape about two years ago. At the time, the girl and her parents denied she was having sex with R Kelly. Without hard evidence or eyewitness testimony, police and prosecutors were unable to press charges. Now, with the video, authorities say they are more confident about building a case against R Kelly.

“The reason these things are happening I really do believe is because of the fact that I didn’t fall back as far as blackmail was concerned,” R Kelly said. “I didn’t give them any money.”

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