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In this Sept. 17, 2019 file photo, R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

Federal appeals court upholds singer R. Kelly’s convictions and 30-year prison term

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

R. Kelly leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case, May 8, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from singer R. Kelly, convicted of child sex crimes

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

R. Kelly leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case, May 8, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from singer R. Kelly, convicted of child sex crimes

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

R. Kelly leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case, May 8, 2019, in Chicago. R. Kelly’s lawyer told an appeals court Monday, March 18, 2024, that all kinds of legitimate organizations — even college fraternities — could be deemed racketeering organizations under a law unjustly used to convict the R&B superstar at his Brooklyn trial of sexually abusing young fans, including some who were children, for decades. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

R. Kelly seeks appeals court relief from 30-year prison term

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

R. Kelly leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case May 8, 2019, in Chicago. Minnesota prosecutors dropped sex abuse charges on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, against disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly that alleged he invited a 17-year-old girl to his hotel room in 2001 and paid her $200 to dance naked with him. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

Minnesota prosecutors drop state sex charges against R&B singer R. Kelly, citing federal convictions

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

R. Kelly, center, leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case on May 8, 2019, in Chicago. Federal prosecutors asked a judge Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, to give singer R. Kelly 25 more years in prison for his child pornography and enticement convictions last year in Chicago, which would add to 30 years he recently began serving in a New York case. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

U.S. prosecutors ask for 25 more years in prison for R. Kelly

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

Musician R. Kelly, center, leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case on May 8, 2019, in Chicago. A Chicago prosecutor said Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, that she's dropping sex-abuse charges against singer R. Kelly, following federal convictions in two courts that ensure the disgraced R&B star will be locked up for decades.(AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx dropping R. Kelly sex-abuse charges

By Claire Savage and Michael Tarm - Associated Press

In this courtroom sketch, R. Kelly and his attorney Jennifer Bonjean, left, appear during his sentencing hearing in federal court, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in New York. The former R&B superstar was convicted of racketeering and other crimes. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

R&B star R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years for racketeering and sex trafficking

By Tom Hays and Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, Sept. 17, 2019. R&amp;B legend R. Kelly is entering another phase of his well-publicized downward spiral with a sentencing in a New York City courtroom Wednesday, June 29, 2022, that could put him behind bars for 25 years or more. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

R&B hitmaker R. Kelly due in court for sex abuse sentencing

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

R. Kelly arrives at the Cook County Criminal Court Building, in Chicago, June 13, 2008. R&amp;B legend R. Kelly is entering another phase of his well-publicized downward spiral with a sentencing in a New York City courtroom, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, that could put him behind bars for a quarter century or more. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

R. Kelly timeline: Shining star to convicted sex trafficker

Associated Press

In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. A federal judge on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, ordered R&amp;B superstar R. Kelly to stand trial in Chicago on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges next year after the scheduled sentencing for his conviction in an earlier sex trafficking trial in New York. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

R. Kelly’s Chicago trial on federal sex charges set Aug. 1

Associated Press

This photo from Friday, May 9, 2008, shows R. Kelly arriving for the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. On Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, prosecutors in Kelly's sex trafficking trial at Brooklyn Federal Court in New York, played video and audio recordings for the jury they say back up allegations he abused women and girls. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

R&B superstar R. Kelly convicted in sex trafficking trial

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

This photo from Wednesday, June 26, 2019, shows R&amp;B singer R. Kelly arriving at the Leighton Criminal Court in Chicago for arraignment on sex-related charges. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky, File)

Years in the making, R Kelly sex abuse trial gets underway

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. The R&amp;B star gained weight and lost money while he awaits a sex-trafficking trial that starts in earnest next week, his lawyers said Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, at a court hearing. The revelations came as U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly in New York made a series of rulings to narrow down what evidence can be shown to jurors. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

Jury selection starts in R. Kelly sex trafficking case

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

FILE - This combination photo shows singer R. Kelly after the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago on May 9, 2008, left, the late R&amp;B singer and actress Aaliyah during a photo shoot in New York on May 9, 2001. Federal prosecutors are accusing singer R. Kelly of scheming with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&amp;B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994 according to a revised indictment filed Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/File)

R Kelly arraigned on bribe charge linked to Aaliyah wedding

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 26, 2019, file photo, musician R. Kelly departs from the Leighton Criminal Court building after a status hearing in his criminal sexual abuse trial in Chicago. On Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, Cook County Judge Lawrence Flood ordered Kelly to stand trial on one of four sexual abuse cases on Sept. 14, but it remains unclear which of the cases prosecutors will take to trial first. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky, File)

R. Kelly charged with paying bribe before marrying Aaliyah

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press