Idolator has done its own hand wringing over enjoying R. Kelly in the recent past, but thankfully there's one place where R. Kelly fans can huddle on the web to commiserate over the legal injustices facing Kells in Chicago. Robert Kelly, the Blender Blog has your back: this whole jury selection process is a set up!
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Jury selection in the R. Kelly trial continues with the tale of potential juror No. 37, a white male in his 60s who's into mapmaking, Animal Planet, and 9/11 conspiracy theories revolving around the Pied Piper of R & B's link to the Taliban. If not for the setting of this character sketch, I'd swear it was from an upcoming episode of Trapped In The Closet. [MTV]
The R. Kelly trial is slowly trickling into being, with the first day of jury selection taking place yesterday. The trial needs 16 jurors in total, and so far, three have been picked!
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Jury selection in R. Kelly's long-delayed child pornography trial begins today, and as you might expect, the Chicago media are all over it, having waited for years to cover a story that hits a sweet spot (celebrity name recognition, damnable allegations, and strange/disturbing subplots) that's usually the province of trials in the Los Angeles metro area. After the jump, a roundup of various bits of news related to R., the trial, and late-night basketball games in a Chicago suburb.
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It's been almost six years since he was initially arrested, and R. Kelly's child pornography trial may finally begin Friday, if the judge doesn't wake up find a horse's head and a yellow puddle in his bed. MTV has a timeline covering R. Kelly's endless quest for virgin flesh, and the years of litigation it has inspired. Do you realize that Kelly has released more albums since the arrest than in the decade of professional work that preceded it? And that's not counting unreleased material and guest appearances. Does Kelly simply have a lot of time to kill now that he can't cruise by high schools any more, or is the looming threat of prison one hell of a muse?
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R. Kelly continues his quest to be King Of Singing "It's The Remix" by adding a few verses to Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body." It's probably best for all involved that his wide-reaching remixing style means that the song's "I'd best not see this clip on YouTube" line is nowhere to be found in this new version. [Prefix]
Former Slate/Salon/SF Weekly writer and non-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman is using his newish blog as a stage from which he makes it clear that R. Kelly should be seen as a chronic child molester. Admittedly, I've laughed at the Chappelle's Show sketches, scoffed at Jim DeRogatis' extensive coverage, and purchased every new R. Kelly album on street date, so I've obviously stuck with the "eccentric genius" camp. But after reading the 40 bullet points Wyman's laid out so far, it might be time for me to switch sides.
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George Daniels, husband of recently dismissed R. Kelly publicist Regina Daniels and longtime Chicago music scene fixture, is attempting to shame a clearly unshamable man, raising a stink that Kelly "crossed a line," this one moral, when he engaged in an affair with the Daniels' daughter. Turns out those "ROCK SOLID" rumors about the relationship from November were actually true, except for the part about Daniels' daughter being 19, as the alleged affair occurred after Maxine Daniels was old enough to buy her own wine coolers. Jeez, the R.'s publicists should know better than anyone that the man only starts sweating if his transgressions involve possible jail time.
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In December, R. Kelly was ordered to court after missing a prior hearing allegedly because of the Utah police, who stopped his tour bus for speeding. The date of that hearing—which was also marked by R. having cell phone shots of him snapped by an amateur paparazzo who was awaiting a probation hearing—was the same day as an R. show in Minneapolis that had been canceled two days prior, and the fact that R. was within driving distance is making the promoter both suspicious and litigious. Now the promoter is claiming that Kelly never intended to play Minneapolis in the first place—it had already been rescheduled once—and he should be paid back the $120,000 that he laid out for the aborted gig.
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No. 3: R. Kelly And Friends Are Dogs On The Prowl
And lord help us if a non-flirter gets in their way.
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