Singer R. Kelly was arrested while attending a child support hearing at the Daley Center on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Kelly, 52, was taken into custody in court for $160,000 in unpaid child support, according to NBC News.
His publicist Darryll Johnson stood in front of reporters as Kelly was transferred to the Cook County jail.
Jonson told reporters Kelly would remain in jail until he comes up with the money. He said Kelly offered to pay between $50,000 – $60,000 and even asked the judge to set up a payment plan – but his request was denied and the judge remanded him into custody.
Kelly was previously arrested last month on 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse. A friend put up $100,000 – 10% of his $1 million bond.
His next court appearance is set for March 13. He will need to pay $161,633 to his ex-wife Drea Kelly by then.
Kelly’s arrest comes after he sat down with Gayle King for an explosive 80-minute interview, parts of which aired Wednesday on CBS This Morning.
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I’m sure another deluded fan will cough up the money for him.
I’m sure another deluded fan will cough up the money for him.
? he thought he could make a payment arrangement ? not today!
? he thought he could make a payment arrangement ? not today!
In the words of Whoopi Goldberg…
https://youtu.be/uxBfukKmATo
In the words of Whoopi Goldberg…
https://youtu.be/uxBfukKmATo
He had his chances to do right but didn’t care. Karma is really catching up with him. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f6d9ef4d9ded0d8746a4c600a9cc4e4809a5d1e9334dc64a74661dc2c504fe49.gif
You living at the Trump but you asking to make payment arrangements on child support. Wonder how your children are living. Payment arrangements? Negro please.
Hell my ex-husband is 70k behind a $300 a month order, when are they going to lock his azz up?
Take note people…Mr. Kelly is learning the meaning of “when the chickens come home to roost”.
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#BoyBye!
When it rains. It pours. That lady spent 100k to bail him out just for him to get arrested again. ??
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And the mess gets messier.
I’m going to guess about RK’s entourage….Nation of Islam? If he’s with the Nation, he’s in good hands.
Interesting that RK came to court with $50K and the judge wouldn’t accept it….wanted it all.
It was just announced that the woman who put up bail was subpoenaed to tell where the money came from….that’s interesting, because when Willie Wilson bails people out of Cook County jail the don’t ask him where the money came from….WW was a mayor candidate in Chicago. Does anybody know a situation where someone is asked where the money came from for bail?
You get what you give in life. Every bad seed he has sown in the lives of others … time for the harvest.
Robert calling his friend from jail https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/25866c6408d5f90e7258a602027c18bd5128d16ae240be11fdadf2a5bbce625e.gif
RRRaah is in deep doo doo and they (law enforcement) really want every pound of his flesh in prison so they are looking at N-tee and Airy-ting.
Kelz you in danger, girl. ?
The chickens have come to roost!
Not tomorrow, Friday or Saturday either. ?
Was already on a payment plan, that’s what c/s is & defaulted! And he wants another one? Trying to make a settlement offer like it’s a credit card. He takes life as a joke.
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And while RRRaaah is asking for money, the person on the other end of the phone says I’m saved now. I can’t help a child molester and hangs up.
RRRaaah looks at the phone in disbelief. He can’t believe his friend hung up on him cuz he was there when he beat the beyotch up and now he claims he saved. You black mutha phucker.
Too busy paying off his victims and spending money on his harem of hoes. ?PRIORITIES
Man get your as together.
He was like… take this deposit until my CBS check clear in a few days ????
Child support should have been the first thing he payed.
Off Topic…Kylie Jenner becomes world’s youngest billionaire
says Forbes…
It’s raining, it’s pouring……
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Valencia, go get your “friend”.
Right! This whole situation is fishy.
Sony must want something he’s refusing to sign over. You know they use the courts to get what they want.
On Topic….BS
I’m really thinking about paying them to put my name on the list, I’m going to say I have more than Oprah!
If Trump could lie his way on to the list. So can you
This isn’t about child support. they don’t give a dam about those kids. If they cared they would’ve locked him up after he missed the first payment.
That’s why his Ex-wife and kids got involved, and his lawyer said he was broke but the female that bailed him out said he has money. His lawyer should have prepped everybody!
Guy on Tom Joyner said they dont get paid so not that either lol
The judge was right to not have remorse. His duties as a parent came AFTER his desire to reside in one of the finest places. I’m the past and in the current. He would rather return to his plush life before paying his dues to the children. He had the 60k and the 100k that was bailed with so he could’ve made an honest effort. Then. Now he wants to get even more sympathy. He stays trying to play people. He probably thought he would put a deposit and then appear like a “boss” to his sister wives and the world. His little world.
Slaves are already trying to figure a way out with their family. Just in case. . https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fec593c48aae47a51864ad1a7479ffa3f397caddcdc58cb3280b24ec9d437a9d.gif
Probably soon especially if you’ve ever had gov’t assistance. They takin driver licenses and passports behind back child support
Please my oldest son is almost finished his Phd program. my youngest son is in grad school. These mofo’s don’t care about collecting child support.
They’re just using the courts to get whatever it is they want from this man. Yes, he should be prosecuted for sexually assaulting those kids. but they’re setting a precedent by not collecting on behalf of the custodial parent. Then investigating the source of his bail money.
WOW, see I don’t like this “by any means necessary kind of justice!”
Where is the ACLU for this woman?
While Kelly created his own doom, and the inevitable (prison time), these proceedings creates case laws, precedents of what can be allowed! It’s a random, and small world!
Meanwhile everyday child predators and women abusers will get light sentences, early parole, and out on their next kill, sadly!
We’re going to see modern day “Jim Crow” law at its best for R. Kelly!
All of it is Bull to the Sh$t…Now, the judge refused the $50,000 – $60,000 from R. Kelly (where they do that at)? Oh, yeah my F-up city, Crooked Chi (who just dropped all felony charges against ex- politician Aaron Schock) who lavishly spent campaign money he never reported, while previously accused of wire fraud, and falsifying elections signatures: Schock promise to pay the IRS $70,000. He also claimed the prosecutor in his case was just trying to make a name for himself, wt-hell? ..Meanwhile, Andrea Kelly and her children are put on hold….I’m sure they could have used the money R. Kelly offered to pay today….smh….The F$ckery of it all!
This gif..
Ole girl was MAD when the elder said that the “Neffie” character was a B*sh.
She was like “I came here to get help and get called out my name..wth??”
I couldn’t help but laugh.
They’re coming for you black men….they’re coming. Either they’ll shoot you down in the streets or dig and dig until they find something. They got MJ and he’s dead.
Ain’t it though. He’s at the breaking point. I didn’t know he jumped up and was yelling in that interview.
They’d better watch his cell.
I know he’s delusional, but there was no way, the judge or Drea was going to accept a payment plan!
If has nothing he can liquidate, no publishing whatsoever to sell, then he will have to take accountability, and pray to God for mercy, but he’s probably not there yet!
He is a Deadbeat.
No respect for a person specifically a man who calls himself a rockstar. Needs to take care of your children.
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Yep, you hit the hammer on the nail….beside all the bad pub. Chicago is getting because of the hundreds of unsolved murders and missing girls. They are thirsty here in Chicago to direct the attention to N-tee bodies…so, don’t come no where near here! frfr.
If he can take care of other peoples’ kids then he can take care of his own!
Making a man financially responsible for his children is a conspiracy theory?
Bishop!!
So I saw a video of him and one of his sister wives shopping after he got out of the pokey. So he out shopping in high end stores knowing he gotta a $160K bill on the horizon. Not very smart…
They are coming for that @$$!
Estimation and dollars in the bank are two different things
This the dumbest messiest man ever. I thought he did thay Gayle King interview for money. Now I’m realizing he most likely didn’t. Did he did he meet his advisors, PR and lawyers in his “hooked on phonics” class? His whole team seems dumb as hell.
If Drea cannot support the kids she need to give them to kelly or the state
Doc ?
Yes its totally is when you offering the poorest women in america all kinds of extra government assistance to put her children father into a system that totally against black men
Another clueless ? defending a deadbeat pedophile?
I wouldn’t want to be on the list. I like privacy please don’t call me for shyt. Lol
Lawd
You the idiot
I’m so mad at myself! I really thought that I was about to partake in an intelligent conversation, lol. I’m going to exit stage left now. But just so you know, the poorest women in America (meaning the #1 welfare recipients) are White women. Do some more homework before you further put your ignorance on blast.
I like your gif.
The valuation is so cooked by its CFO, KRIS JENNER! Kylie’s company isn’t a public company, so it’s easy for Kris Jenner to do this!
Kylie’s cosmetics brand is HIGHLY successful, but these exaggerated projections, not acurrate.
Here’s an example…
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/according-to-forbes-calculations-im-the-next-self-made-1827556372?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=theroot_copy&utm_campaign=top
Her company is worth it. Doesn’t take into account company expenses… and she’s not self made
Yeah, I’m not buying it. Show me the bank receipts. They can say she’s worth a trillion and people would believe it.
Since my previous comment wasn’t approved…, you’re a F_G ?
Yeh to Schock. Jessie Jackson Jr. is hopping mad
All child support evaders have money for everything else other than the kids they are abandoning. They still buy clothing, still dine out, still buy drugs, still buy weed, still date, still make other kids, still travel. They just choose not to pay child support. That’s why they belong in prison because it’s intentional. Even broke jobless men find money to hang out, drink, party but don’t have one dollar for their child support. I despise child support evaders.
Well, he takes care of other people’s kids that he sleeps with. He prioritizes sex over his children. Because he is a mentally unwell and challenged man.
IDK…
Here’s what a Hipster commenter posted on ZMT…
“honestly.. they are guesstimating. ..& FORBES admits this to a degree. (technically, they have no definitive proof, as its a pvt co, so they have to apply a multiplier equation.. & included $100m worth of endorsements, property etc.) — but saying KJ is ‘maybe’ a billionaire is a worse look, than sincerely claiming her a billionaire…& it was only done to sell magazines! – in that they succeeded, because everybody is talking & laughing.
my issues are the paper valuation they give her, being based on company filings, & personal assets.
in 2018 – she filed $360m rev, $100m profit
Forbes gave her an insanely high multipler of 9x = $900m net worth.
[tech companies get 8-10x multipliers.. consumer goods get 3-4x ..so yeah, its very high valuations, not to mention the math is all wrong, between 2015 to 2017 her y2y sales only increased 7%, & her premium line was down -35%]
but because she owns 100% of the company, (paying ONLY 7 staff directly & 10% to PMK) ..all that projected value counts as kylies ‘net worth’.
obvs. its a lazy valuation, but stating her PAPER net worth is $1billion is just a stupid joke to shift magazine sales..& probably paid for by PMK!
WHILST $1billion is just stupidly high.. based on those sales revenue, $250m is a more accurate REAL net worth in 2019.. which sadly, for a dumb kid who does nothing but pout for the camera…is still a MASSIVE net worth!”
That’s how it should be. A man should be THRILLED to take care of his children. I just can’t fathom what child abandoners are thinking as they drink and hang out and shop but not even pay COURT ORDERED FORCED support.
Drea really loved him. She was patient and sympathetic. It didn’t have to come to jail. There was a time she would have accepted a payment plan. But $161,000 and he’s flying women all over, she’s said no more.
Speak!
And go to the FBI 10 most wanted child support evaders and all are rich white men who plummeted their wives and kids into poverty.
AMEN.
Appropriation.
Family Courts protect deadbeats and let them get away with murder.
Tell ’em!
You need to report him to the Inspector General and FBI.
LORD HAVE MERCY.
It’s not his week at all lol. They out to get him. #divideAnd Conquer smh
THANK YOU.
She has bomb threats against her day care business and no one is helping her.
Ditto
Well these FEMALE POWER BROKERS ain’t playing. This should get the female voters out. We will definitely have a female president 2020. WATCH!
#FEMALEPOWER
I agree. They are out to get him
You the one need to do the research because African Americans are totally dependent of government resources at a disproportionate rate than white American.you idiot
And somewhere in Chi-Town, jussie Smollett is breathing a huge sigh of relief and thanking God for R Kelly
It’s funny seeing a black man in prison?
Unfortunately, but they really trying to hold him while they gather more evidence from 20 years ago smh
They are not together what does it matter
Nope they want him on the other charges. This an excuse to hold him even after he posted bond
Lol
Proofread your work and understand sentence structures before you try to disrespect anyone. I’m done running circles around you, lol. Thanks for the comedy though.
While his people sit back cheering. They moved fast to make the black man the face of the #metoomovement.
Shole is ???
Those damn kids are way past grown. They’re speaking out against him, but want his money. One is a she-he.
Well how R Kelly offer a 3rd the money ask for a payment plan and be denied? When Stevie J owed over a million dollars in back child support and walked.
Appears the judge wants to have his bond revoked on the other charges.
Kelly will be judged by God and the court for crimes he be found guilty of.
He is really sick and needs help for his pervesion. Prison is the only thing that will halt his power to manipulate those in his circle.
Well it turns out that MJ was not only a druggie but a pedo. We don’t have any icons from the 80s. All druggies and worse.
Those kids are grown and speaking out against him…but they want his money?
It’s actually legalized slavery if the man pays taxes for welfare and your poor then the kids should qualify for welfare. We pay for poor immigrants and white trash families just because the parents are separated it shouldn’t change that.
Absolutely ridiculous! ?
I think the judge doesn’t want HIS name caught up jn the corruption involving R Kelly and the justice system in Chicago???
Lol. Wait.” Shole is” dead. ??
That’s because blacks are only 10% of the population. We have a larger percentage of blacks on welfare than whites.
Actually, he’s correct.
Lordt, R Kelly all on TV sanging “I believe I can cry”?
Sin has left a Crimson Stain??
I’m not defending MJ but they’re doing too much with R. Kelly. You’re an idiot if you don’t think the white man is sending a message. They turned the #metoomovement around on black men and took the focus off the biggest rapists in history….the white man. Now shut the hell up!
Shut up, dummy!
She knows she’s too old for that hairstyle.
Lighting quick.. I don’t see none of those white men being Jailed
Her children are grown. This is just for show.
Crabs in a barrell.
I’m willing to bet the interview,outburst and crying has all been part of a bigger plan by Kelly and his camp. He might have known he would be going to jail today thus, get on TV scream,shout and cry to make himself sympathetic to the public. Please believe he has money but is willing to sit in jail in order to convince people he’s broke.
I’m on the fence with child support. I’ve seen several father’s take care of their kids financially and because the mom depends on public assistance they get hit to pay child support. Then the support may be so heavy on the father that it puts a financial strain on them just to survive. It should be required that the support goes into a trust for the kids. I would hate to see another failed Mrs. Kelly dance studio in the future with his money.
They seem to get rewarded for their rape allegations ;
Trump= President
Kavanaugh= Supreme Court Justoce
I love to see an old perv suffer
I have nothing for this story or any story with R Kelly anymore. I’m tired of asking WTF are these girls parents?? And I’m beyond sick and tired of that Josiline chicks parentsz ? I honestly feel they were okay with R Kelly until the checks & perks stopped. Then all of a sudden they wanna be concerned parents.? The same parents that allowed a grown man to take their teenage daughter on stage during a concert. FOH????????
And his ugly ass ex wife needs to go somewhere. She’s ain’t innocent either with Her ugly ass!! ???
I completely and utterly agree with you! This whole shit makes me sick.
We now live in a society where people can say any old thing and the people will condem them. Dam shame
Funny he’s arrested for none payment but my ex is behind over $22,000 and nothing is being done about that
I agree with her ugly ash. She just mad cause he didn’t want her no more. Wasn’t she just dancing to one of his songs singing about him bring her baby’s daddy
I believe it, just tired and also, the backlash!
No sympathy when you don’t support your children!! Maybe jail will be the wake up call for Mr.R.Kelly to get his ish together!
When I tell you I am loving this. His ass should stay in jail until his debt is paid off by state. This shit is giving me life! I guarantee you now with all these dead beat dudes that affect the black community, ladies will start turning their backs on him now! Dumb ass
Shit mine behind twice that much. His ass just bought a house
Oh shit you right!
Y’all sound so pathetic.
Yup..send your daughter to save em
I can’t…
Absolutely and they deserve it! You obviously have suffered trauma.
Yeah girl leave this combo behind its straight downhill from here. My God.
Not a proper sentence idiot. Correct with what? You’re an idiot?
The proof is in the pooding. You are slowly feeding it to these assholes and they still don’t get it!
#FreeRKelly
Dead beat *ss MF’s…They just doing this because he’s R Kelly
???
If he can afford to stay in Trump Towers, he can afford those child support arrears.
R Kelly did this to himself. Listen my son had a rude awakening when his ass got in one fight at school. Not only was he thrown out of school but also sent to alternative school for a wk. While the other kid who initiated the fight walked. Well hell, the other kid was white and my son received the harshest treatment because he was black. But like I told my son, no matter what you should have never done what you did for me to even get this phone call. Hell, he broke rules. Doesn’t matter what punishment the other kid received his ass shouldn’t have gotten in trouble, to begin with! RKelly has been getting away with way more shit than the average black dude because of his status. Rkelly sorry ass right where he belongs.
If he broke the law…
Call CS and tell them where to locate him. I worked in CS years ago and guys were arrested all the time. Licenses were suspended, passports were revoked, etc. The problem is finding the ones who don’t work jobs because it’s harder to locate then unless the mom can provide information.
When I worked in child support, a man was 90k behind in child support. He called us because he was stuck in Canada and couldn’t return due to his passport being revoked. He said he was a motivational speaker and working there to make money. Well he hadnt made any type of payments in 8 years. So my agency told him he had to pay the entire balance in order to release his passport. So it happens to non celebrities every day.
I agree.. But girl when are you and I going to paid lol
Well the courts are going to help him with a Wellness plan.
Can’t you have him arrested?
so right on , and true, they make up lies all the time to benefit themselves, and get payed under the table.
Serious question how do we decipher the difference between a conspiracy theory and a bad person that just so happens to be black? Every time something happens to a black celebrity we immediately split into two groups. “he was set up” or “He did that shit”.
Pack up the kids, toys, dog, their busy schedule and drop them off on a Sunday night. By Wednesday he should have your money.
Lets all go 2 the post office bin and go thru the mail n find our money. My kids father mad bcas l never asked him for shyt so he could play money games with me 2 control me. God has been great 2 all 3 of us. Got 2 hbcu college graduates that is changing the world n his azz cant get credit for none of it.
Jussie’s ash caught a temporary reprieve.
Lmao Chicago officials are not playing with him.
You better Valencia and see if her dumb self will pay for that too
Soooooo, he can’t afford to pay his child support, but is living in Agent Orange Drumpf Towers? Hmmmm?!?!? #yeahok
He was too busy taking care is his minor gfs & their friends! #icantstandafvckindeadbeat
And paying the Attorney and Bodyguards?
Dear Robert,
I know you cannot read or write or whatever….but your ass can count. You know good and well you should have been taking care of your chirruns…..but yet you are housing and supporting 2 chics??? You are paying to live in Dump Towers….but what about your kids? They have to eat and survive as well. 30 years in the game (your words not mine)….and you cannot even cough up money to support your kids?? You out here doing interviews and such when you need to be talking to your accountant and wondering why you are broke! Next I bet we will see a headline of you not paying Uncle Sam!!! So in closing…Robert….stop trying to explain to the world why you like barely legal snatch…..and focus on taking care of YOUR kids….and being a better human being periodt.
When Jesus walks..
He can’t take care of his own kids, but can take care of other people’s kids.
Exactly
I give you the credit.
I wouldn’t care if the next president is a river rat. All bullshit
Well, I just went on my states evader list and only two blacks the other 8 white. Crickets…
Thanks for that Read very
Informative and True.
So True.
Yeah exactly, how embarrassing ..!!
Sounds like he don’t want his Ex to get any of his cash….sad !
You’re welcome!
It’s been reported that Arra said he only has $350,000 left. What he should do with that is file a malpractice lawsuit against his attorney who foolishly let him do a a televised interview knowing that he’s not going anywhere but jail and giving prosecutors the evidence to help put him there. I believe in my heart that lawyer deliberately looked the other way because he knows Arra doesn’t have any money to pay him with and this is his way of getting rid of him permanently. He also knows Arra is not the brightest bulb in the box so, since he can’t pay him, no sense in keeping his around.
Now I know someone is holding some of R. Kelly’s money. Please give it to the court to pay off R. Kelly’s child support so he can get out of jail again!
I will never forget my friend did something very similar. Her ex was behind in support. He was a truck driver and was only in town a couple of days and only wanted them for a couple of hours ONE of the days. The kicker is he was supposed to have the kids during that time for the summer. Oh, she didn’t pick them up! After he called a hundred times, multiple texts and threatened to call the laws she finally responded informing him he was keeping the kids per the divorce decree. But if he chose not to, meet her at the police station to drop them off. She knew his lame ass had outstanding warrants!! This dude learned that day. And has been in line ever since!
Good 4 her!!
It’s funny seeing a deadbeat in prison absolutely no matter the color
Robert, you have issues. I am sure if you with someone she does too. To even ask something like that is absurd. Stop fishing
Don’t get me started. My friend’s ex is an attorney. He writes all his income off. This guy stays in a mansion and travels the world regularly. The judge set his support on his traceable income. She receives $100 a month in child support. Now imagine that…
Good
You feel my pain. I filed for my divorce first. Because, I didn’t want child support holding up my divorce. I then filed directly with child support because my attorney advised me they would collect. Which would save time and money…,,,,,,,,please! The first five years I would hire private investigators to track him down, then present that evidence to child support, to no avail. CS is a joke. They’re using his cs case as a ruse
Joke is an understatement.
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