R. Kelly has cancelled three tour dates due to poor ticket sales amid allegations that he held six young women captive in 2 homes he is renting in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Kelly vigorously denied the allegations.
The cancelled dates include New Orleans’ UNO Lakefront Arena (Aug. 11), Raising Cane’s River Center Arena, in Baton Rouge and Dallas’ Music Hall at Fair Park. Seven shows are still listed as going ahead, according to WENN.com.
SEE ALSO: Woman Denies Being Held In Cult By R&B Singer R. Kelly
The 50-year-old singer, whose full name is Robert Sylvester kelly, cancelled the concert gigs after Chicago parents claimed he held their daughters in a “sex cult” and coerced them into sexual relationships with each other in homes he’s renting in Johns Creek and Duluth, GA.
But one of the women, a 21-year-old aspiring singer, denied the allegations.
“I am in a happy place in my life, and I’m not being brainwashed or anything like that,” said Joycelyn Savage in a video published by a gossip tabloid.
Several former associates of the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer have backed up the parents’ claims, alleging he has brainwashed six women into “cult” like behavior.
On Friday, July 28, Kelly performed for the first time since the allegations were first published by BuzzFeed News last month.
The singer performed to a half empty Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, Virginia, according to the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column.
“The promoter sent an e-mail to R. Kelly’s team and told them they were set to lose $400,000 if sales didn’t pick up fast. They canceled,” a source told the NY Post.
The singer has reportedly hired a crisis management team, including Monique Pressley, the lawyer who initially advised Bill Cosby after he was accused of sexual assault. Pressley quit Cosby’s legal team last year.
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Get your coins Monique, but I think it’s a wrap.
Personal diliema…i wouldn’t go to an R Kelly concert or support him, yet I still watch The Cosby Show?
Don’t feel guilty over that…the Cosby Show and R. Kelly two different situations.
Karma.
About time, people stopped financially supporting, aiding & abetting a pedophile and ephebophilia.
Se/xual offenses. Ages do not matter.
Last night on “Dish Nation” they showed him on stage with someone’s phone rubbing it all over his junk. He is disgusting and I had stopped supporting him years ago.
Bill Cosby and R. Kelly yes, but not the show.
Will never go see him in concert again, never, he’s sick!
I don’t understand what the issue is.
All of these women are adults. Now unless he started grooming them when they were minors they have the ability to leave him at any time.
Yes, Karma!
Good! Bankrupt his stinky balls!!!!
Bill Cosby, wasn’t the only star on the Cosby show.
Agreed….
Rruhhh a talented but sick individual.
Good. This brother needs help.
The issue is he is a predator. He waiting til the day they turn 18 and preying on them. He is a known predator and he needs to get help.
If grown women want to be in his cult, why are people mad?
Any mofo with Sylvester as a middle name is a whole freak.
Yall mincing arguments here, I haven’t supported R.Kelly since he married Aaliyah. But if he waited until they were 18 and they went willingly after that. Why are folks mad?
The same reason people get mad when a women wants to stay in a abusive relationship. It’s toxic and nothing good can come from it. In my opinion
Again, these women are over 18 and are with him willingly. If she wants to get punched her face for whatever reason its her decision to make, until she doesn’t want to get punched anymore.
People still support this pervert?
Hey Robert, you ol kiddie diddling, child pissing, pervert….
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You beat me to it! LMAO
And that’s your right to feel that way. I don’t believe a female can consent to getting punched in the face regularly. We can agree to disagree on that. But he pissed on a 14 year old girl. He should have still been in jail for that. He has a problem, and condoning his behavior is only adding to his mental issues.
I don’t support R.Kelly and I agree he has a problem, however I’m just curious as to why now.
Hey babes!!!!!!!!!!! Its your Wake County cousin
What up yall….
Guess they gonna take R. Kelly and Usher down at the same time. I see a pattern going on here.
Wealthy Black entertainers beware…..somebody after yall
Same thing happened last time. He will go on a hiatus for 2 years and come back and folks will accept him again.
He’s always cancelling….that’s nothing new!
Or n*ggas can just stop doing dumb sh*t lol
Best of Both Worlds was canceled partly bc….Robert made light of his THEN current sexual allegations court case. On stage. He bounced back. He not going anywhere. We have already made it okay. Bc last EYE checked he aint never stop his behavior and…white people didnt start buying his music or concert tickets. We still did.
I disagree with that…. When I was 17/18 I was looking for a round the way R Kelly because I LOVE older men…..So for me to date a older a older man he has to like younger women right? And I wanted a older man that was mature and treated me the way I wanted to be treated. I come from a 2 parent married union so no Daddy issues here….btw, when I was 14 I looked 18-21…..My age wasn’t questioned when men hit on me…..Have you seen the way 14 year olds look these days? I have a 14 year old daughter and she can pass for 18 all day long……
Lmao ??
Aw shyt….there go my patna nem. How’s it been going fam? Been a hot ass summer, you ain’t planted no meat, have you?
I thought I saw on tv and heard on the radio that his tickets sells were up, hmm? Either way, I do not support him or his music. So he hires a female attorney? I wonder how she feels representing him with his past? I guess she gotta eat and all those old allegations are gone out the window huh smh!
a sex cult.. . was the playboy franchise a sex cult? js….. hell diference is the parents of these girls want to control their college girl slut ways…. the girls with Hugh Hefner the parents literally was on board … look and Kendra Wilkerson same shyt I use to watch the girl next door… same shyt… Hugh done built an entire enterprise …. IDGAF about this shyt to be honest …
WHY do people give him a pass because he makes good line dance music? FOH…LOL!
Because he isolates them from family and friends, and there is usually a lot of physical and emotional abuse and infighting.
It’s not that simple.
Are you serious? So when you were 18 you wanted a 50 year old man? If so then something went wrong somewhere. And you would be ok with a 35 year old man pissing on your 14 year old? So what if she looks older smh no disrespect to you but you might want to talk to a professional.
All of this will blow over.
Please stop.
As long as the check clears I don’t think she really cares.
So you saying that him messing around with underage girls should be excused because the white man did it? If your kids get into trouble at school or with the law, would you excuse whatever it was that they did because their little friends did it?
Co-sign.
And he will continue to do it because people will continue to buy concert tickets and CDs and he will forever be able to pay his way out of mess.
Chester Sylvester the notorious child molester.
lol… I don’t see where she said 50 but I hear you.
LOLLLL… Step, step..
Sorry to inform you that that will never happen. Look at how people are defending him.
I seen that footage a few weeks ago. Damn phone was probably vibrating too. I’m so silly.
I had to google ephebophilia. Thank you. I love learning new words.
He would have to admit that there’s a problem. Remember, this is the fool that asked the interviewer to define teenager.
Exactly
These girls are of age and i dont think that was the point.
I hope the remaining tour dates will be canceled. Shout out to the residents of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Dallas and the surrounding areas!
I agree but u know how we are..chile
They’re of age now but they wasn’t when he met them. It’s true that Hugh has a ranch full of bunnies but how many of their families complained to the media and I don’t recall hearing about Hugh pissing on 14 year old girls on video. R Kelly is sick.
Well you have female attorneys that are hired to prove that men are dogs and you have female attorneys that are hired to keep guilty dogs free.
Dear, I wanted a Older man with means rather he was 5, 10 15 20 years my senior……Still til this day at the age of 41….I had my kids by a older man and still date older men til this day with no drama and or issues……..So I have no problem if my daughter of LEGAL age wants to date a older man that will do right by her. I would prefer for her to be with a seasoned and well respected older man over a young immature snot nose baby maker that has no good intentions for her……I’ve had both my age and older and prefer the latter……So if were basing both of our opinions on logic, then maybe we better go see a professional hand in hand…….
Best of both worlds was cancelled right after the concert here in Memphis. Kelly tried to pull his diva ways on J and his crew and they perpper sprayed him.
The ususal u say. Like we always do.
Exactly lol
Sad!
If you 41 with “kids” and you not married to any of them older men but you saying you never had any problems or issues with them then I’m confused? Why you not still with any of them? Either you a serial older men dater or your confused . In my humble opinion
He should perform at Penn State University. Apparently, they have no issues with pedophiles. Another thought is that he and Usher can go out on tour together. Valtrex would sponsor the shit out of that!!
I watch The COSBY Show all the time ( Is TV One wrong for this? lol). I don’t go to concerts anymore but if I did I wouldn’t give RK a dime and yes I know he don’t need my dime. Now back in the 90’s I went to his 12 PLAY concert (which was bomb). And I knew about Aaliyah then, but now??? It’s more than 20 yrs later and this dude just keeps on offending.
Sandra how about a write up on Charlie Sheen passing out AIDS to other MEN
“Here in Memphis”
My n*gga
Good point
WELL AT LEAST HE’S MAKING SURE OL GIRL COMES HOME TO MEMPHIS TO VISIT…MAYBE.
I WAS AT THE MEMPHIS SHOW! IN ALL OF 9TH GRADE…SMH. I’M SHAME!
How old are his children and how is this shat affecting them I wonder?
Ya’ll stopped watching the Cosby Show…BUT still go watch this embolden criminal perform and sing his pide pipper songs for the children…You know good and well the lyrics of “Seems Like You’re Ready” is written for a virgin child.
:WAVES:
I guess that’s why his ex wife was only allowed on one side of the property or certain areas of their house when they were married.
I still watch Heathcliff every week. RK can kick rocks. SICK-0
I may be divorced, did I mention my marital status? You scanned over the main issue of this post to go into why I had my kids by a older man? That’s your rebuttal? Figures…….You went straight to marital statuses rather than stay on topic about R Kelly and Young Women to why I May be a unmarried 41 year old with 2 kids…….nothing left to discuss here while I lmmfao……#knowitallbutdontknowshit………Toodles…..
What was the relationship w/ his mom? (may she rest eternally in peace) I vaguely remember hearing and /or reading some stories/theories back in the 90’s/early 2000’s. Not blaming mom for a thing but somehwere in his past something sick happened to this dude I’m guessing?. Again, not pointing a finger at his mom because they say they were so close and he was devasted when she passed. As most ppl would be upon losing their mama :-(.
Teens
Wait…whaaat??!!
LMAO
Oh wow. okay.. so old enough to hear and read and see everything. Shame.
Well there you have it
Wait I totally rember the diva shyt w/ Jay but they pepper sprayed his azz? LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. They must have missed his peen.
You used yourself as an example so I spoke on what you posted.
“I have my kids by a older man and still date older men til this day with no drama and or issues”
I’m not the smartest man in the world but a divorce is drama and issues, right?
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. This is cute.
Good questions….i think i remember hearing that he was molested. Whatever happened, he took on those spirits caused he is quite effed up, smh.
I wonder what kind of relationship he has with them.
Serial older man dater. That sounds serious :-).
Why I said partly. it was based on a lot of stuff.
I agree with this sooooo much >young immature snot nose baby maker that has no good intentions for her.
Not NAH
Again, I never mentioned my marital status……You ASSUMED you know my status and I will let you..lmao, again….I have no plans to explain or validate your pointless point……I said what I said and that’s that…..O btw, I totally agree with your last statement 100%……
Not surprising considering how WE are generally over-sexualized as a whole in society and as a result WE tend to not protect our youth…quick to call little girls fast or turn outs all while not trying to find ways to deter their actions or ask WHY they act the way they do… Repeatedly turning the other cheek to family members and friends sexually assaulting kids just for ignorant reasons. Majority of OUR people attacked and blamed the victim he taped himself pissing on and her own parents took a payout which implies that what he did was ok and she was not worthy of protection.
He said a older lady in his family rapped him at around 8or 9. He said she did it for so long he thought it was normal. Said he started enjoying it. I think it was his last GQ interview or maybe the New York Times.
Good he is scum of the earth!
Prolly was?
One of them is transgender
I hope they take his show off the air. They run it everyday twice. Shit is ridiculous. Yet they snatch the Cosby’s
I do not recall Hugh on video pissing on a teenager
Thank you
with a straight face
How many passes does this ninja think he is supposed to get? He made it out the woods once, why does he keep running back in? Jackaxx!
I love when Hugh Heffner gets brung into this scenario. Hugh was also implicated in Bill’s shit. However that girl was “legal” too. Two wrongs dont make a right. But hey. Who am I to say anything?
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Would you be ok with your fresh 18 year old joining a harem of girls to be some 50 year old mans sex toy??
Yeah something AINT right!
Dating and brainwashing and exhibiting cult like behavior are two different things. He has a HAREM of women NOT just one
An old man has no good intentions for a young girl either…especially if he’s old enough to be the woman’s father…most of the time they pick young girls to groom them into the type of woman they want. Those men couldn’t keep the attention of a woman their own age.
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Roman Polanski did it and his ass still making a run for it, a run for it (In my Juvie voice). Fukka not even allowed back in this country. And we still paying tax dollars to bring all these cases against him and they still not sending him back. Poland said fukk yall.
But wait ….only a week ago “ticket sales were booming” lol.
I assumed you weren’t married and I was right lol you confirmed it. But it’s all good. We can agree to disagree
Not just one…and they all out here looking for MEANS too…willing to sacrifice everything they have for some change.
Bc he is sick. And as many passes as the black community and legal system keep allowing him.
How will I know if she don’t tell me? My moms never knew what I was doing…..So, if my daughter is secretly filmed having sex, and it’s exposed…… then there is one word…….LAWSUIT…..other than that I will depend on the positive influences I keep her close to and the Mother to Daughter conversations will always be very OPEN and Honest….I’ve already started preparing her for circumstances that’s surrounded by dating. She cant car date until she is 16 so I’m STARTING EARLY……..
You still didn’t answer the question smh
He was handing it out to women last year…. I don’t find it news worthy because it’s men now. He’s been sued blah blah blah and blah blah. There is enough porcelain news elsewhere.
Yet instead of breaking the cycle he went and sought out his own victims
I haven’t been to R Kelly’s Mansions….Have you? I cant tell you if there is a cult, brainwashing etc…..So unless I have graced the place then it’s all hearsay in my opinion especially when the young lady in question said she is fine……
Well that’s where it starts…upbringing. When our girls are taught to value their bodies and make smart decisions they are less likely to fall victim to predators like R- Kelly.
My children may have been conceived and birthed in a marriage….Get my point? Just because I MAY or MAY not be married today doesn’t mean I wasn’t yesterday………
I disagree with that…….I’m talking to my daughter about self esteem and self image before she starts dating……The higher her self esteem the lower her chances of picking a low level man………..That’s the way I learned it…..I want her to fall madly in love with herself FIRST before she allows a goofy ass clown telling her he loves her just to get in her panties……..
Oh…ok lol you said you are divorced so I just took you at your word. But you been projecting lol you got with a older dude and had the same results, right? Divorce smh The fact remains R. Kelly is a sick individual in need of help. Can we agree on that?
None of those girls were underage. They also enjoyed careers (used loosely) and made money other than under Heff (no pun intended). Heff got parents on board because it’s a business and their daughters are there for the business. Not getting helped with “acting, singing” then surprise “we’re actually gonna sell your cooch”.
R. Kelly has too much alienation of these women for this to be okay. A parent supporting their heaux azx daughter is ok and way better than not knowing where to find her after sending her off to singing session/lessons.
Can’t be compared.
What question? I already told you I’m not validating your assumptions….I’m having more fun letting you think you know what your talking about…..Look, I’m at work and I clock out at 3pm..I wont be responding after that…..So if you have a question unrelated to me personally, then shoot….other than that lets let this be the end of this discussion……
These young girls are gonna be the death of him!!!
Sounds like you agree
chile 2017 chile I’m speaking of the present situation … I done said this shyt before I don’t live in past … you should try it… it releases grudges and allows forgiveness
Rene26: ” would you be ok with your fresh 18 year old joining a harem of girls to be some 50 year old mans sex toy?”
Just clarification lol I know you have much more important things to do.
I know hang on to past like… Damn what are facts in this situation … Legal girls getting smashed … And loving it…
Are these girls underage ?
Chile a trip
Ughhhhh! I can’t stand this pedophile! I hope the fallout continues. This guy is sick and should be in jail.
I cant agree with that because I’m on the flipside of the argument……I cant say he’s sick because he likes younger women…..I like older men so what does that make me? I would be contradicting myself…..And I will never do that…..I gotta keep it 100 when I read from the same book……as in preferring to date older men…I just cant…..
IKR!!! You can look in his face and tell he’s sick.
I will end this discussion by saying its a reason you prefer older men. Not saying that’s a good thing or a bad thing just saying, it’s a reason.
I answered that already…..keep up and scroll up……
Wait am I missing something … Are any of these girls underage? The present girls not the girl he peed on in the 90’s … These girls… If so then yeah that is illegal but if these broads 18 and up… Sorry .. Bunch of nothing …imo and IDGAF! About this particular situation … Oh because it’s R.Kelly … Well yeah he has a sexual something going on… But at least the shyt legal… By society now… Hugh old azz been doing this mess … Same mindset… Instead he was praised … Folks don’t know what Hugh was doing with those girls… And I know how young white women get down… Bottom line folks judging and need to clean they own house…
I’m a little slow. Excuse me
Pedophile Kelly tried it with the wrong one. He had J mistaken for someone who needed him.
O, I can explain that easily, I prefer older men because I am attracted to a man that is mature, experienced, seasoned among other things….Men my age are still trying to figure it out…..I prefer a man who already knows what it’s all about because he already played the games and learned some serious life lessons along the way……..Yep, we can agree to disagree all day long as long as we stay respectful……….
Pretty much.?
The Cosby is back on the, since it two weeks ago. Bill is chillibg, get that Syd check.
That first line made me giggle. Damn
Cosby’s is back. I saw it on TV two weeks ago.
His victim said she is over it and they need to leave room allow.
You good tho……..We good too…….lol…..See ya on the next post we probably disagree on too….lol
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yesss hes disgusting ?
Ex wife went off on video about radio host Monie Love mentioning her children and Drea Kelly went all the way off. She said you don’t like her ex don’t support him or his shows, don’t like her? Say what you want but keep her f—ing babies out ya mouth. All of this while she was sitting in a moving truck.
Whatever happened to his artist Sparkles? I remember that one annoying song and then didn’t hear from her anymore.
What are you even talking about? Hugh Hefner was brought up in relation to RKelly. And past or present has no issue here. Stop deflecting boo
t has been going on for years. I work in the industry and I have no reason to go near him or his home. He was video taped pissing on a child as well as married one.
It shows he has a history of mistreating and abusing young women. Just like when a criminal is charged, THEIR past will be brought up. You apply for a job, your past employment history is brought up. You can speak present all you want but your past will always come into play
Plus Hugh opens his house up. He has parties there. It is no secret. I have been there a few times when I was younger for premieres
Thank YOU!!!!!
He pissed on her niece. that is what happened. The girl in the infamous video. Is Stephanie Edwards aka Sparkle niece.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh snap… I need to look that up. Okay, thanks. Damn.
Sweatin bullets like the devil all the time
Oh yes.. I recall that now.. Saw it right here in fact.
Oh damn! I’m sure she wanted to lay hands on his behind
You pee on my niece up at my job, Im quitting too. Probably why she said fukk the industry.
I had to go back and read it again and I agree. LOL.
Who stopped watching Cos? I enjoyed several episodes of the Huxtables just this weekend. Then watched me some Whitley Gilbert.
Oh I ABSOLUTELY agree with all of this too. For damn sure, please don’t get me wrong.
True. Then he recorded himself doing that and kept looking at the camera to make sure he had the right angle for that bs, then came out and said that was his brother.
R Kelly is like that Molesty Uncle your parents won’t let you hug or stay around without them being in the room..We know he twisted..the whole family does..but we don’t want him penalized cuz he family…
Hurt people hurt people…R Kelly was molested his obsession with under age or just legal girls are a direct result of his early experience with sex. We are discussing the symptom of his illness instead of his illness…to justify his perversion now by saying oh they are “legal..when he is 30+ years older than them doesn’t make it ok. People act like someone who is 18-21 has all the sense in the world majically embedded in them not realizing they are fresh from highschool still mentally unmature women…. If you understood the nature of a pimp you will understand how these women fall victim to this man. Just as a pimp does he lures them with the thoughts of living the good life…and then gives them sexual pleasure no one but an experience man can give them which they have never experienced..(Yall remember how sprung you were when you got your first GOOD DICK) He turns them out make them fall in love and trap them..stop acting like this is normal shyt. The only thing He isn’t doing I think is tricking them out to others..and if he asked they probably would because they are mentally whipped at a young age..
Ugh, her crying azz. She is one silly woman.
What does she cry about?
Now that I think back to the lyrics I’m disgusted. I never cared for that song back in the 90s and sure as hell don’t care for it now.
We don’t support him in our families!! Protect black girls not black male child molesters!!!
She used to be on that ex wives show with Will Smith ex wife and was always crying when the subject of her ex came up. Then she got engaged to a gay dude…just silly.
Yup just ordered a copy of his old school movie let’s do it again with Sidney Poitier and an all star cast. It was hilarious and that
Movie is hard to find