R. Kelly could also be ordered to pay 1 of his sufferer $300,000

The sufferer, who stays nameless, has accused the singer of giving her the sexually transmitted illness throughout one in all their encounters.

Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in jail in June, after being convicted on a number of counts of racketeering, regarding bribery and compelled labour, by a jury in 2021.

Earlier this month he was additionally convicted of a number of youngster pornography and intercourse abuse costs in his hometown of Chicago.

The Grammy winner was discovered responsible on three counts of kid pornography and three counts of kid enticement.

However the jury acquitted him on a fourth pornography depend in addition to a conspiracy to impede justice cost accusing him of fixing his state youngster pornography trial in 2008.

He appeared at a listening to at a federal courtroom in Brooklyn by way of videolink from jail in Chicago.

At his sentencing Kelly was branded “the pied piper of R&B” as he got here head to head with a number of of his victims who detailed his “deplorable and inexplicable” abuse, which befell over a long time.

The singer, whose actual title is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is thought for songs together with his first primary single Bump N’ Grind and 1996 hit I Imagine I Can Fly.

The latter turned an inspirational anthem performed in school graduations, weddings, in ads and elsewhere, together with the inauguration of former U.S. president Barack Obama in 2008.