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The R&B singer R Kelly has been accused of sexually abusing a girl since she was 14 years old.
R Kelly’s ex-girlfriend Kitti Jones has made an extraordinary claim in a BBC3 documentary that the singer ‘bragged about training a 14-year-old girl to be a sex pet’, after previously alleging he ran a ‘sex cult’.
In R Kelly: Sex, Girls and Videotapes, Kitti alleges R Kelly had ‘groomed’ the teenager to ‘perform sexual acts’.‘I saw that she was dressed like me, that she was saying the things I’d say, and her mannerisms were like mine. That’s when it clicked in my head that he had been grooming me to become one of his pets. He calls them his pets,’ the Guardian reported Jones as saying.
According to the publication, Jones said Kelly made the teen ‘crawl on the floor towards me and perform oral sex on me, and he said,
“This is my fucking pet, I trained her.”‘
Jones, now 34, dated Kelly for two years, from 2011, and alleged she was ‘forced to have sex with him and others at least 10 times in a “sex dungeon”’.
According to the Guardian, Kelly had previously denied Jones’ claims. ‘Mr Robert Kelly is both alarmed and disturbed at the recent revelations attributed to him,’ said Kelly’s attorney, Linda Mensch, last year.
Mr Kelly unequivocally denies such allegations and will work diligently and forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear his name.’
In July 2017, Jones, along with three other women, spoke out against Kelly for an investigation by reporter Jim DeRogatis for BuzzFeed News, in which they accused him of “brainwashing” a series of women into a cult-like setup, where Kelly required them to have sex with him, and controlled what they wore and when they could use the bathroom or their phones.
Kelly denied the claims, saying he would “work diligently and forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear his name”.
DeRogatis later spoke to Jerhonda Pace, another woman who had a sexual relationship with Kelly. She said: “I was slapped and I was choked and I was spit on” by Kelly, who also reportedly had her dress up like a schoolgirl and call him “daddy.”
Elsewhere in the documentary, Kelly’s ex-manager Rocky Bivens stated that he was at the secret wedding ceremony between the singer and fellow R&B star Aaliyah, who was 15 at the time. Kelly has in the past denied the marriage.
Kelly is one of the most successful R&B singers of all time, having scored six US No 1 albums, with seven more reaching the Top 5; his hits include Bump n’ Grind, I Believe I Can Fly and Ignition (Remix). His success has waned in recent years, however, and he hasn’t had a single in the US Top 20 since 2007.
