Often, the victims’ parents believed the singer brainwashed their children, sequestering them from the outside world and dictating every detail of their lives, from diet to meal times to hygiene schedules. (He was later cleared of those charges by a jury in 2008.) But then, in 2017, journalist Jim DeRogatis published a bombshell investigation with BuzzFeed: For years, DeRogatis reported, Kelly - full name Robert Sylvester Kelly - used his own concerts as recruiting grounds for his “sex cult,” luring girls away from their families and holding them at his homes all around the country. Somehow, the singer’s reputation withstood a brief marriage to a teenager in the ’90s and a video of him seemingly having sex with (and urinating on) a different minor in the early aughts that resulted in child-pornography charges. Kelly’s predation crystallized into an open secret.
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