R. Kelly Promised 17-Year-Old McDonald’s Worker ‘Cuddles’ That Turned Into Him Filming Explicit Tape
R. Kelly Promised 17-Year-Old McDonald’s Worker ‘Cuddles’ That Turned Into Him Filming Explicit Tape
With R. Kelly’s sex trafficking and racketeering sentencing quickly approaching, it looks like more information is being revealed.
According to Radar Online, prosecutors are accusing R. Kelly of picking up one of his victims at a McDonald’s with promises of “cuddles” that turned into a relationship filled with sexual abuse by the singer.
As previously reported, R. Kelly, 55, was convicted in September 2021 of racketeering, acts of bribery, sexual exploitation of a child (boys and girls), and a list of other sex trafficking charges by a New York jury. During the trial, the government called 45 witnesses to discuss the trauma he put his victims through.
In recent court documents filed by New York prosecutors, they laid out the specific abuse each girl suffered at the hands of R. Kelly. They describe in great detail the disgraced singer’s encounters with a young girl named Stephanie.
In 1998, the government reportedly said Kelly noticed Stephanie working at a McDonald’s in Chicago. He had one of his associates approach her, point out the singer, and gave her the Kelly’s phone number — despite her informing the associate she was only 16-years-old. According to the court docs, Stephanie threw away the phone number. However, a year later, she approached R. Kelly after running into him at a store. She asked if he was willing to listen to her friend’s music and potentially help her out.
R. Kelly allegedly told Stephanie that
“he thought he could arrange that, but he’d like to get to know [Stephanie] and he also said he liked to cuddle and would [Stephanie] be okay with that,”
to which Stephanie responded,
“yes.”
The “Trapped In The Closet” singer allegedly gave Stephanie his number and told her to call him. She eventually ended up at his Chicago studio where they had sexual relations. The government said R. Kelly was well aware of Stephanie’s age because she told him.
The motion reads,
“They continued to have sex over the next approximately six months. Stephanie’s sexual interactions with [Kelly] were humiliating.”
Stephanie told investigators,
“[Kelly] would be very specific in how he wanted me to be. He would put me in positions that he wanted me to be in. He would tell me that he wanted me — he’d tell me to get undressed and then he would position my body in a way and he would then say, all right, I’m going to go and when I come back I want you to be just like this. So I would just be completely naked with my b— in the air and just like waiting there for him to come have his way … Sometimes hours.”
According to reports, Stephanie told prosecutors if R. Kelly found her in an incorrect position when he returned, he would become “disappointed and angry.” She said Kelly also took her to his townhouse and directed her to participate in his creation of child pornography, videotaping her naked and as he engaged in sexual activity with her.
In 1999, Kelly allegedly paid for Stephanie to travel to Florida to visit him. While in a studio, he allegedly used a handheld video camera to record Stephanie’s face as his private parts were in her mouth and she was giving him oral sex. In an act of humiliation, [Kelly] ejaculated on her face and did not let her wipe it off. He reportedly forced her to walk down the public hall to another bathroom to wipe her face.
Prosecutors wrote,
“On one occasion, she was at a Houston’s restaurant in Chicago with the defendant and two rappers. Stephanie was not allowed to speak to the rappers during the meal, but heard the defendant tell them that ‘he likes young girls and that people make such a big deal of it but it really isn’t a big deal because, even, look at Jerry Lee Lewis, he’s a genius and I’m a genius and we should be allowed to do whatever we want because of what we give to this world.'”
Lewis infamously married his 13-year-old cousin in 1958. Prosecutors believe the judge should consider this story when sentencing R. Kelly.
R. Kelly’s sentencing is scheduled for June 28. As previously reported, Kelly faces more charges outside of New York state. Prosecutors in Minnesota charged the singer with engaging in prostitution with a minor and in Illinois, he was also charged with child pornography and obstruction.
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