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Former rapper R. Kelly<\/a> – whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly – has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 USD fine for sex trafficking and racketeering after he was accused of using his fame to subject young women to systemic sexual abuse. The 50-year-old was convicted at a trial in September last year. It comes after he was charged<\/a> with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in 2019.<\/p>\n

“Although sex was certainly a weapon that you used, this is not a case about sex. It’s a case about violence, cruelty and control,” US District Judge Ann Donnelly said in court, via the ABC<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kelly’s legal team argued that he should serve just 10 years in jail due to a childhood “involving severe, prolonged childhood sexual abuse, poverty, and violence”. Through first-hand accounts of survivors, the jury also convicted Kelly of racketeering (running a criminal enterprise) after it was learnt that managers and aides of Kelly would meet girls and ensure they were obedient.<\/p>\n

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“You made me do things that broke my spirit. I literally wished I would die because of how low you made me feel,” one woman said in court.<\/p>\n

The singer-songwriter has long been accused of sexual abuse and in just one incident was sued in 1997 by a woman who alleged sexual battery and sexual assault. He was acquitted by a jury in Chicago in 2008 for child pornography charges. His day of true reckoning did not arrive until the 2018-2019 #MeToo movement when the docuseries Surviving R Kelly\u00a0<\/em>was released.<\/p>\n

Kelly has already been jailed without bail since 2019.<\/p>\n

His sentencing arrived just one day after Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, was sentenced to 20 years in prison<\/a> for her involvement in sex trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1627,"featured_media":24691,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[260,35],"yoast_head":"\nR. Kelly Has Been Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison - Grazia Middle East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last September.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/r-kelly-sentenced-30-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"R. 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