They said six women live in properties rented by Kelly in Chicago and the Atlanta suburbs, and he controls every aspect of their lives: dictating what they eat, how they dress, when they bathe, when they sleep, and how they engage in sexual encounters that he records. Three former members of Kelly’s inner circle - Cheryl Mack, Kitti Jones, and Asante McGee - provided details supporting the parents’ worst fears. She still lives with Kelly and says she’s doing fine, despite her parents telling the police that she is “being held against her will” in what they call a “cult.” But their daughter isn’t a missing person - at least not in the eyes of the law.
(BuzzFeed News verified their identities and full names in public records, but is withholding the alleged victim's full name and her parents' last name to protect her privacy.)Īs part of their efforts, the mother closed her businesses, became a relentless amateur detective, and shared her findings with the FBI and police in two states. and Tim are in a desperate fight to bring their daughter home.
You grew up with the song, and you like the song.” Even with the Aaliyah situation, now that I think about it, ‘Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number’. “In the back of our minds, we were thinking could be around him if I was with her,” J. She is a fiercely devoted stage mom - she and her husband of 22 years, Tim, a car dealer, had moved from Memphis to Atlanta to help their eldest child’s career - and was confident she could protect her daughter. said she’d heard about past sexual misconduct accusations against Kelly, but wasn’t overly worried. Soon enough, he’d invited her to fly out to the Indio concert on his dime. said that Robert “R.” Kelly, who turned 50 in January, met her daughter backstage at a concert in Atlanta earlier that month. He was going to help her with her CD, and I was really impressed with him at first, because I have always been an R. “One-on-one with just me and my daughter and him. Kelly, we stayed there over two hours,” said J. was thrilled that her 19-year-old daughter’s music career was going to make a major leap forward from recording demos and performing at talent shows to the chance of stardom - thanks to the help of an R&B superstar. Backstage at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California, on May 23, 2015, J.