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R. Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell has been charged in New York with threatening to shoot up a Manhattan screening room that was showing the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly in 2018. The charges were announced today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the FBI. Russell was one…

Thousands of concerned women, men, celebrities and politicians crowded into downtown Los Angeles Saturday for the fourth annual Women’s March. With musical performances and speeches to fill the day, attendees listened to one speaker after another demand change, and call on the nation’s next president to make women’s…

Few documentaries have triggered a real-world impact on the order of Surviving R. Kelly. Before the six-part series aired on Lifetime, the titular R&B singer-songwriter had managed to avoid significant harm to his recording career, despite allegations going back decades that he had sexually abused numerous teenage…

Singer R. Kelly has been charged in Minnesota with one count of prostitution with a person under 18 and one count of soliciting sex with a person under 18 for an incident that allegedly occurred with an underage girl at a concert in 2001. The latest sex crimes charges against the R&B singer come as he faces 18 total…

R. Kelly, facing charges of sexual abuse and racketeering in New York and Illinois, was denied bail this morning in a Brooklyn court after pleading not guilty to five criminal charges. The R&B artist was arrested in July and accused of crimes involving women and girls over a span of 20 years. He faces 18 total counts…

STARDOM AT THE STORE: The myth used to be that Schwab's Drugstore was Hollywood's place to be discovered. But in London, a grocery store recently served the same purpose. Singer/songwriter Karina Ramage has been signed by Dan Glatman, the music exec behind British boy band Blue. He claims the serendipitous signing…

Singer R. Kelly was arrested by NYPD detectives in Chicago Thursday night on federal sex trafficking charges, according to reports. A 13-count indictment reportedly includes charges of child porn and obstruction of justice. Kelly is expected the to be brought to New York. The disgraced R&B star pleaded not guilty to…

Grammy-winning singer R. Kelly on Thursday pleaded not guilty in Chicago to 11 new felony counts of sexual assault, four of which are aggravated criminal sexual assault that carry a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison. The charges were originally filed May 30 after Kelly previously pleaded not guilty to 10…

When Lifetime aired its six-part docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, the network not only unpacked years’ worth of sexual abuse allegations levied against R&B singer R. Kelly, it unveiled the multitude of women who had similar experiences with the embattled crooner. It effectively changed the conversation surrounding…

UPDATED, 1:39 PM: Federal prosecutors in Chicago have filed a new case against singer R. Kelly, this time charging him with 11 felony counts of sexual assault that carry a maximum of 30 years in prison. The new charges include four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, three counts of aggravated criminal…

The parents of R. Kelly’s live-in girlfriend Azriel Clary sat down for an emotional interview with Gayle King that’s set to air Wednesday morning. Alice and Angelo Clary told the CBS This Morning co-host they think their 21-year-old daughter duped them from the beginning of her relationship with Kelly, whom she met in…

UPDATED with video: Jimmy Kimmel opened his Monday show admitting he didn’t think CBS could top Gayle King’s interview with R. Kelly last week. But the network did with its Friday one-hour special in which King and her team emptied their notebooks, so to speak. “We got a fresh round of unforgettable moments,” the ABC…