'Surviving R. Kelly' filmmaker, Dream Hampton, chronicles her 19-year pursuit of RKelly, who's now in jail facing sex crimes.
They'd both publicly denied the marriage ever happened and seemed jointly committed to silence. I ignored his camp's demand. I asked. He silently glared at me. When the exchange was included in the profile, he got my number, called me and yelled at me. "You know you wasn't supposed to include that," I remember him saying, as if I were some naughty child and not a magazine writer.
I wasn't Chicago-based, so I didn't know about what black Chicagoans euphemistically called R. Kelly's "preference for young girls." I'd spent my four to five days with R. Kelly like many of the girls and women who accused him of sexual and physical abuse would later describe — in his studio watching him work and work out. His various assistants would send for food, and he'd be most productive from midnight to sunrise.
Less than a year later, a videotape of what absolutely looked like R. Kelly committing statutory rape went viral where bootleg urban black films were sold — in gas stations and barber shops, often in plain sight. He was charged in 2002 with crimes related to that tape, only after the 14-year-old's aunt identified her to an investigator. The 2008 trial led to a "not guilty" verdict., I understood it partly as a penance.
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