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R. Kelly, singer of great success in the nineties, we remember among the many titles I believe I can fly, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for luring women and children for sexual purposes. The sentence was released in a Brooklyn court almost a year after the singer was found guilty of leading a criminal organization in Chicago for over twenty years that recruited women, young African Americans including minors, to subject them to abuse. sexual and psychological.
For R. Kelly, now 55, it is the conclusion of a parable that has seen him continue to be hailed by legions of fans, even after rumors of his sexual abuse of young girls had begun to circulate in the 1990s.