R. Kelly’s image as a self-parodying R&B lothario largely overshadows a very disturbing truth about the Chicago singer: He’s been accused of rape several times. Five years after he was acquitted of all charges in a child pornography trial, the numerous accusations leveled against R. Kelly are making headlines once again, thanks to Jim DeRogatis, the music journalist who turned the allegations into national news with a 2000 Chicago Sun-Times story that was written with courts reporter Abdon M. Pallasch.
In light of the release of R. Kelly’s latest album, Black Panties, and news of his upcoming Christmas album, DeRogatis has granted a lengthy interview with the Village Voice in which he discusses the extensive reporting he’s done on R. Kelly over the years.
“I think in the history of rock & roll, rock-music or pop-culture people misbehaving and behaving badly sexually with young women, rare is the amount of evidence compiled against anyone apart from R. Kelly,” says DeRogatis, who, in 2002, received a video in the mail that allegedly depicted R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl. “Dozens of girls — not one, not two, dozens — with harrowing lawsuits. The videotapes — and not just one videotape, numerous videotapes. And not Tommy Lee/Pam Anderson, Kardashian fun video. You watch the video for which he was indicted and there is the disembodied look of the rape victim. He orders her to call him Daddy. He urinates in her mouth and instructs her at great length on how to position herself to receive his ‘gift.’ It’s a rape that you’re watching. So we’re not talking about rock-star misbehavior, which men or women can do. We’re talking about predatory behavior. Their lives were ruined.”
http://www.spin.com/2013/12/r-kelly-sex-crimes-jim-derogatis/
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