Kelly Clarkson is living for a moment like this. The 40-year-old superstar recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of her historic win while gearing up for the fourth season of her eponymous talk show. On Sept.
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R. Kelly‘s second federal trial began in Chicago yesterday (August 17), with prosecutors saying that the trial will focus on the disgraced singer’s “dark” and “hidden side”.Kelly has already been sentenced to 30 years in jail after being found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering in a New York court last year.The singer is now the subject of a second federal trial in his hometown of Chicago where he is facing 13 charges, including creating and receiving child pornography, enticing minors into sexual activity and obstruction of justice.
He has pleaded not guilty.Federal prosecutors opened the trial by informing the jury about what to expect over the next four weeks, with testimony from survivors and video evidence expected to be shown. “This trial is about Kelly’s hidden side,” assistant US attorney Jason Julien said during his opening statement.The court will hear from one woman, who is being referred to as Jane, who will testify that she appeared in an alleged sex tape with Kelly when she was 13 or 14 and the singer was 31.
Prosecutors have claimed that Kelly made four separate videos with Jane, and segments from the alleged videos will be show to the jury.The alleged video was previously the centre of a 2008 trial involving Kelly, though the singer and Jane both denied at the time that it was them in the tape. Neither testified, and Kelly was acquitted on all charges.The singer, along with his former business manager Derrel McDavid and his former assistant Milton Brown, has subsequently been accused of bribing and intimidating witnesses to influence the outcome of the 2008 trial.
Kelly Clarkson is living for a moment like this. The 40-year-old superstar recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of her historic win while gearing up for the fourth season of her eponymous talk show. On Sept.
Jerry Seinfeld has returned to the world of fashion as the new face of streetwear brand Kith. The Seinfeld actor and comedian, 68, was chosen as the star of the brand’s Fall 2022 campaign, with photos showing Seinfeld posing in various trendy Kith ensembles.
Lawyers for Kesha have said that the court hearing for her long-running defamation legal battle with producer Dr Luke – currently scheduled for next February – can’t go ahead until the New York Court Of Appeal has ruled on some side disputes. And, they claim, Luke’s legal team are responsible for delays in the appeals court making it less likely that those matters will be addressed before next February.Luke’s defamation lawsuit against Kesha is all that remains of a long running dispute between the former collaborators, which began when Kesha accused Luke of rape.
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Variety, rejecting the disgraced mogul’s lawyers’ argument that the doc would unduly influence the jury pool. “We’ll just have to deal with it.”With that, Weinstein is set to go on trial for 11 felony counts beginning with pretrial hearings and jury selection starting Oct.
A former girlfriend of R Kelly yesterday recalled how the musician’s one time business manager once remarked that he should just have had her killed after she took a videotape that featured a threesome involving her, Kelly and a young teenage girl, rather than paying her for the tape’s safe return.Lisa Van Allen was the latest witness to testify in Kelly’s current criminal trial in relation to the many allegations of sexual abuse that have been made against the musicianShe talked about her own relationship with Kelly, echoing a lot of what was said by other ex-girlfriends who testified during his earlier trial in New York last summer, especially regarding how he directed their sexual encounters and sought to exert control over various other aspects of their lives.But the real focus of Van Allen’s testimony was the videos of her having sex with Kelly and Jane, the musician’s god daughter and the star witness of the current trial, who testified last week. Van Allen says that she first met Jane in 1998, and that she had three sexual encounters with her and Kelly over the next three years.Jane would have been around fourteen in 1998, although Van Allen claims Kelly lied at the time and said that the younger girl was sixteen.
issued a written injunction preventing the state from trying to enforce the law, which was approved by Republican lawmakers earlier this year, over the objections of Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, who initially vetoed the measure.In May, three transgender athletes and their families enlisted the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in their case.
Putting their family first! After finalizing her divorce, Kelly Clarkson offered a glimpse at her coparenting approach with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.
Kelly Clarkson returned to Studio 1A for a “Today” show interview on Tuesday.
A federal prosecutor and the defense attorney for Robert Sylvester Kelly made their opening statements as his second federal trial began in Chicago on Wednesday. Kelly currently faces charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice alongside two additional defendants, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown. “The defendant… had sex with multiple children,” Assistant United States Attorney Jason Julien told the jury today, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Last week Famous punk and rap artists Machine Gun Kelly played the final show of his Mainstream Sellout tour in his hometown of Cleveland Ohio. MGK whose real name is Colson Baker always likes to go big for Cleveland as he put on a very extravagant show for The Land.For starters, Kelly ziplined down from the top of the sold-out First Energy Stadium which is the home of the Cleveland Browns professional Football team.
R Kelly’s alleged child sex tape victim is set to testify at his latest trial. The girl is allegedly seen in multiple child pornography tapes from the late 1990s having sex with the disgraced 1990s R and B sensation. She is expected to be the prosecution’s star witness in ‘I Believe I Can Fly’ singer Kelly’s trial on allegations he made child pornography and enticed underage girls for sex.
The latest R Kelly trial kicked off in Chicago yesterday, with the star this time battling charges relating to images of child abuse and conspiracy to obstruct justice. And while there will be plenty of parallels between these proceedings and the trial that took place in New York a year ago, yesterday’s opening statements confirmed that there will be even stronger links to a much earlier trial involving the musician.Last year Kelly was found guilty in New York State of setting up and running a criminal enterprise in order to access and abuse women and teenagers, a conviction that resulted in a 30 year jail sentence.
R. Kelly kept an ugly side of his life hidden as he escaped poverty in Chicago and rose to pop music stardom, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the singer's trial on charges accusing him of enticing girls for sex and rigging a 2008 child pornography case. Kelly’s lead attorney implored jurors during her opening statement at the federal trial in Chicago not to accept what she said was the prosecution’s portrayal of her client as "a monster." Going back to the 1990s, much of the world knew Kelly solely by his hit songs, including the chart-topping inspirational anthem "I Believe I Can Fly," U.S.
Amber Heard has hired new legal counsel amid her ongoing litigious battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp. Last month, Heard took the necessary step toofficially appeal the verdict in Depp's defamation case against her. According to the legal documents, obtained by ET, the actress' lawyers at the time filed the paperwork on July 21 in Fairfax County, Virginia, alerting the court they would be filing an appeal in the case where jurors awarded the star $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
Amber Heard is replacing most of her legal team and leaning into the Constitution as she prepares to appeal a multi-million defamation verdict awarded to Johnny Depp.