I understand they are trying to get R Kelly out of the paint, I wish they wouldn’t use Gloria Allred to do it. Allred is an ambulance chaser who uses these situations to increase her fame and her reputation is only going to embolden R Kelly’s supporters who believe he is being extorted.
These public press conferences aren’t helping the investigation they are hurting them.
A woman who sued R. Kelly alleging he knowingly infected her with herpes and locked her in rooms for punishment said she has been threatened with retaliation by the singer.
Speaking just weeks after she was featured in a documentary series where numerous women alleged sexual, physical and mental abuse by Kelly, Faith Rodgers and attorney Gloria Allred claimed the singer sent Rodgers a letter threatening to “reveal what he alleges are details of her sex life.”
In her lawsuit, which Allred said is pending in New York Supreme Court, Rodgers said she met Kelly in 2017 after a concert in San Antonio, Texas, sparking a relationship where Kelly “mentally, sexually and verbally” abused her. At the time the suit was filed, Kelly’s management declined to comment.
Faith’s mother, Kelly Rodgers, says since the suit was filed, she and her husband have received threatening phone calls and text messages.
“Mr. Kelly you may soon join the ranks of Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein,” Allred said in the press conference. “Just as they have been held accountable, so will you.”
Faith Rodgers said if she could say anything to Kelly right now, her response would simply be “time’s up.”
If people want R Kelly brought to justice, you can’t make it into a spectacle. You need hard evidence and credible accusers, saying catchphrases with Gloria Alred is not going to be enough.
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