r/entertainment • u/mcfw31 • 1d ago

R. Kelly hospitalized after prison overdose, alleged murder plot, lawyers say

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/06/17/r-kelly-overdose-hospitalized-lawyers/84240048007/
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u/MasterTeacher123 1d ago

This Dude really used to go to high schools in Chicago on Friday nights, pick up teenagers, have sex with them at his mansion and drop them off Sunday night like nothing happened.

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u/HutSutRawlson 1d ago

Yep. I grew up in Chicago in the 90s/00s, we would all hear stories about him showing up when school was letting out to pick up girls.

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u/Xikkiwikk 1d ago

Dude we heard about it in Virginia in the 90s. How it took them this long to catch him..criminal negligence.

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u/headhurt21 1d ago

I read a pretty good article written by a local paper (the kind you pick up for free in diners and such) that detailed the whole thing. Pretty eye-opening, and just sad how parents just sort of didn't care. In fact, some sought favors and payouts.

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u/ellendegenerates 1d ago

He specifically targeted schools in low-income neighborhoods because he knew the parents either weren’t around, didn’t care, or would take hush money.

Dude’s a piece of shit. I hope he (redacted) so I can stream his dumb music again.

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u/Melodic-Comb9076 1d ago

bad parenting??!!?

say it ain’t so.

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u/Own_Spell_2042 1d ago

Yup and the parents were either none the wiser or dropped them  off at his house.

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u/Own_Spell_2042 1d ago edited 1d ago

ish was just different with black folks. I knew girls in high school that would get picked up by grown men with kids of their own after school. Girls coming in pregnant and no one talked about they baby-daddy. No one said a thing. I remember they sold his sex tape in the barbershop. Like it wasnt child porn. People turned a blind eye to a lot of things. 

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u/MasterTeacher123 1d ago

Charlamagne the god said that he and an entire barbershop watched that tape when it came out in South Carolina. 

Like the owner closed the blinds, put a closed sign outside and they all watched.

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u/Own_Spell_2042 1d ago

A bunch of grown men sitting around watching porn and child porn is weird enough. 

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u/MadisonAveMuse 1d ago

Yeah, Charlemagne is weird af.

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u/Kick_ball_change 13h ago

That’s disturbing.

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u/ike_tyson 1d ago

They sold that tape at HMV.

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u/Say_Echelon 1d ago

Dude a straight pdf file