Self-aware. Kim Kardashian threw shade in the midst of Khloé and Tristan Thompson’s surrogate announcement. The SKIMs founder posted on her Instagram a couple of quotes that could be directed to the Chicago Bulls basketball player.
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Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentThis week, R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The singer, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted of racketeering and eight counts of violating the Mann Act, which prohibits transporting people across state lines for prostitution.R.
Kelly still faces charges in Chicago for child pornography and obstruction of justice, as well as additional charges in state courts in Illinois and Minnesota. The musician, who was found guilty on all nine counts against him during a six-week trial last September, lured his fans and aspiring musicians into sexually abusive and controlling situations, including hostage-like conditions of locking them up in rooms without food or access to a bathroom for days. A monumental moment in the continuous fight to hold abusers in power accountable for their behavior, the turn of events for R.
Kelly marks a staggering fall from grace for one of the biggest hitmakers in R&B history — particularly because he had been trailed by damning allegations for decades, which went unchecked for years.Throughout his career, R. Kelly was arrested and repeatedly accused of sexual abuse with young adults and minors. Yet still, he had the biggest hits of his career and topped the Billboard charts, even performing at the Winter Olympics in 2002 in the midst of a sex tape scandal with a young teen surfacing in the press.
In 2002, R. Kelly was indicted on 21 counts of making child pornography, but was acquitted.Years and years and numerous allegations later, the tables began to turn after he was subject of Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly,” which aired in January 2019.
Self-aware. Kim Kardashian threw shade in the midst of Khloé and Tristan Thompson’s surrogate announcement. The SKIMs founder posted on her Instagram a couple of quotes that could be directed to the Chicago Bulls basketball player.
Movie chain Alamo Drafthouse will open its fourth NYC location July 22 in Staten Island. The nine-screen, 893-seat theater includes the Flying Guillotine, a kung fu-themed collaboration with Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA that’s part bar and part martial arts museum.
Apple TV+.The six-episode drama, adapted from James Keene’s 2010 book, “In With The Devil,” revolves around Keene (Taron Egerton, “Rocket Man”), a charismatic, armed-to-the-teeth Chicago drug dealer and son of an ex-cop (Ray Liotta in his final role) who, in 1996, is busted and sentenced to 10 years in prison.Shortly thereafter, he’s offered a deal: transfer to a maximum-security prison in Missouri and befriend high-talking, mutton-chopped serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser, “Richard Jewell”). If he can elicit a confession from the next-level-creepy Hall, who’s suspected in the murders of at least 14 young girls, Keene’s sentence will be commuted.
One of the most confusing recent stars of Love Is Blind finally found her fairytale love story — and it’s most definitely not the way she figured it would happen on the hit Netflix show!
It’s North West‘s world, and we’re just living in it! The 9-year-old made a major fashion state while attending Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris with mom Kim Kardashian.
If you thought you were sick of hearing politicians offer “thoughts and prayers” just wait until you hear the newest talking point!
BBC News).According to officials, the attacker targeted attendees of the parade at random with a high-powered rifle. It’s said that 24 people were also taken to hospital.Police later named a suspect as Robert E Crimo III, who they considered to be armed and dangerous.
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New Real Housewives of Cheshire star Katie Alex channeled iconic doll Barbie as she was seen arriving at filming for the 15th series of The Real Housewives Of Cheshire. Katie's arrival on the glam cast of the ITVBe reality show was confirmed as she stepped out with co-stars Hanna Martin, Lauren Simon, Lystra Adams, Nicole Sealey, Rachel Lugo and Seema Malhotra as they headed to Lystra's Boujee restaurant and Carnival Street Food and Bar on Bridge Street.
During R Kelly 's sex abuse trial, shocking details of his marriage to late singer Aaliyah resurfaced.
Shaking things up this summer. Luke Gulbranson, Andrea Denver and Alex Wach will not return for season 7 of Summer House, a source close to production confirms to Us Weekly.
An R Kelly fan and YouTuber was arrested in Chicago this weekend over threats he made in a video to “storm” the US attorney’s office in New York following last year’s court hearing in which the musician was found guilty of running a criminal enterprise in order to abuse young people.Christopher Gunn posts content to YouTube under the name DeBoSki, with the strapline “fighting for the due process rights of all people”. He has published countless videos about the prosecution of Kelly, often talking about and criticising witnesses and lawyers involved in the criminal cases against the musician, as well as the judge who oversaw last year’s trial in New York.Gunn’s own arrest relates to a video he made about a week after the guilty verdict was reached in that trial.
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Joe Otterson TV ReporterDavid E. Kelley’s upcoming Peacock crime drama “The Missing” has added five new recurring guest stars, Variety has learned exclusively.Constance Zimmer (“Unreal,” “Big Sky”), Chris Sullivan (“This is Us,” “The Son in Law”), Ben Shenkman (“The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Billions”) Rafael Cebrián (“Acapulco,” “Narcos”) and Danielle Davenport (“Sneaky Pete,” “The Breaks”) will all appear in the series. They join previously announced series lead Jeff Wilbusch and cast members Juliana Canfield, Karen Robinson, and Michael Mosley.Based on the Dror A.
Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticOne of the greatest delights television has brought me over the years is any show that knows how to lovingly film a plate of beautiful food, turn the sound up to 11 to hear it sizzle, and trace its origins to the family dinner table from whence it came. Few things can bring people together like food, and few pleasures in this world like taking a bite of something so delicious it makes your eyes water just to know it exists.“The Bear,” FX’s new series about talented young chef Carmen (Jeremy Allen White of “Shameless”) going home to run his dead brother’s sandwich shop in Chicago, is highly attuned to what makes a gorgeous dish.