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In this June 6, 2019 file photo, musician R. Kelly departs the Leighton Criminal Court building after pleading not guilty to 11 additional sex-related charges in Chicago. A U.S. Attorney’s office spokesman says Kelly was arrested Thursday night, July 11 on federal sex-crime charges in Chicago. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky, File) **FILE**

Judge orders R. Kelly held in jail without bond in sex case

By DON BABWIN - Associated Press

FILE - This March 13, 2019 file photo shows R. Kelly and his publicist Darryll Johnson, right, leaving The Daley Center after an appearance in court for Kelly's child support case in Chicago. Prosecutors in Chicago have charged Kelly with 11 new sex assault charges, some that are more serious than those first filed against him in February. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday, May 30, on its website that the charges include counts that carry a potential sentence of up to 30 years in prison. The charges say the alleged offenses happened in 2010. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

The Latest: Kelly lawyer: latest charges ‘not really new’

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Musician R. Kelly, center, arrives at the Leighton Criminal Court building for a hearing Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)

The Latest: R. Kelly lawyer says he’s waiting to get video

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R. Kelly, front, leaves the Leighton Criminal Court after a hearing on Friday, March 22, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)

The Latest: State says R. Kelly lawyer claims lack ‘support’

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R. Kelly, front, leaves the Leighton Criminal Court after a hearing on Friday, March 22, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)

Amid legal troubles, Avenatti scrutinized for R. Kelly role

By MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2014 file photo, recording artist R. Kelly performs at The 56th Annual Grammy Awards Salute to Industry Icons with Clive Davis in Beverly Hills, Calif. A Chicago judge is expected to rule on whether to let R. Kelly travel overseas to perform several concerts to help the cash-strapped singer pay legal and other bills as he faces sex-abuse charges. A hearing Friday, March 22, 2019, follows a defense motion saying the 52-year-old singer hopes to do up to five April concerts in Dubai. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP, File)

R. Kelly’s trip to Dubai off for now as contracts reworked

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2019 file photo, R. Kelly, right, leaves Cook County Jail with his defense attorney, Steve Greenberg, in Chicago. A strategy seems to be slowly emerging about how R. Kelly and his legal team intend to defend him against charges he sexually abused three girls and an adult woman. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

R Kelly defense emerges, including saying accusers are lying

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

In this photo taken and released by the Chicago Police Dept., Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, R&amp;B singer R. Kelly is photographed during booking at a police station in Chicago, Il. (Chicago Police Dept. via AP)

R. Kelly sex abuse case: His lawyer enters a not guilty plea

By Don Babwin and Michael Tarm - Associated Press

In this photo taken and released by the Chicago Police Dept., Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, R&amp;B singer R. Kelly is photographed during booking at a police station in Chicago, Il. (Chicago Police Dept. via AP)

The Latest: Lawyer: R. Kelly to stay jailed 1 or 2 more days

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ADDS NAMES OF LAWYERS - In this courtroom sketch, R&amp;B singer R. Kelly, attorney Steve Greenberg and prosecutor Jennifer Gonzalez appears before Cook County Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019 in Chicago. The judge has set Kelly’s bond at $1 million saying that the amount equals $250,000 for each of the four people he’s charged with sexually abusing. (AP Photo/Tom Gianni)

Lawyer says R. Kelly to stay jailed until Monday or Tuesday

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Musician R. Kelly leaves his Chicago studio Friday night, Feb. 22, 2019, on his way to surrender to police. R&amp;B star Kelly was taken into custody after arriving Friday night at a Chicago police precinct, hours after authorities announced multiple charges of aggravated sexual abuse involving four victims, including at least three between the ages of 13 and 17. (Victor Hilitski/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

The Latest: Avenatti: Notion victims are lying ‘outrageous’

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FILE - This June 13, 2008 file photo shows R&amp;B singer R. Kelly, arriving at 3the Cook County Criminal Court Building in Chicago. Attorney Michael Avenatti says he has new video evidence of singer R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl. Avenatti said Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, he has turned over the video to prosecutors in Chicago. Avenatti says the video is not the same evidence used in Kelly's 2008 trial, when he was acquitted on all charges of child pornography. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Lawyer likens R. Kelly to Beethoven to explain studio move

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

In this June 30, 2013 file photo, R. Kelly performs at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. Kelly, one of the top-selling recording artists of all time, has been hounded for years by allegations of sexual misconduct involving women and underage girls _ accusations he and his attorneys have long denied. But an Illinois prosecutor’s plea for potential victims and witnesses to come forward has sparked hope among some advocates that the R&amp;B star might face new charges. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP, File)

Lawyer: R. Kelly denies all sexual misconduct allegations

By DON BABWIN - Associated Press

This Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, image made from video by KTVZ-TV shows investigators inspecting the scene of an explosion inside a World War II-era tank at a public firing range that left two people dead near Bend, Ore. (Steve Kaufmann/KTVZ-TV via AP)

Victim of blast in vintage tank appeared in TV shows, ads

By Gosia Wozniacka and Terrence Petty - Associated Press

SHAPIRO: Experts say Redskins can win case in U.S. District Court

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

**FILE** Former Bolingbrook, Ill., police officer Drew Peterson leaves the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., on May 8, 2009, after his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. (Associated Press)

Defense seeking new murder trial for Drew Peterson

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

McLane puts Astros up for sale

By CHRIS DUNCAN - Associated Press