{"id":791963,"date":"2019-01-11T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=778081"},"modified":"2019-01-11T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:41:37","slug":"r-kelly-ordered-to-allow-inspectors-inside-chicago-recording-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/r-kelly-ordered-to-allow-inspectors-inside-chicago-recording-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly Ordered to Allow Inspectors Inside Chicago Recording Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One week after Lifetime released the documentary\u00a0Surviving R. Kelly<\/a><\/em> and set off a renewed wave of public scrutiny into the singer\u2019s alleged history of sexual abuse, a judge has granted an emergency motion allowing Chicago building instructors to access the recording studio featured in the docuseries.<\/p>\n

Chicago\u2019s buildings department will investigate whether Kelly has converted his Near West Side warehouse into a recording studio as well as living quarters without obtaining the proper permits, after city law enforcement officials received an anonymous 311 call on Wednesday claiming that two people were illegally living<\/a> in the commercially zoned building, according to the Chicago Tribune.\u00a0<\/em>City attorney Kimberly Roberts told the local newspaper that \u201cbecause of the issue of public safety, we need to get inside and assess what\u2019s going on.\u201d If Kelly is found to have been in violation of the terms of the lease, he could be fined up to $1,000 a day per violation. \u201cThe property is zoned for commercial purposes only, so there shouldn\u2019t be anyone living there or having any kind of parties there,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

The 8,000-square-foot studio is currently listed by Berkshire Hathaway as for sale for around $4 million and rented at the moment by a \u201chigh profile tenant,\u201d with amenities including a \u201cfully built out recording studio, lounge and full kitchen.\u201d Kelly\u2019s lawyers did not object to the mandate of inspection handed down on Friday, but argued that the situation should not have been characterized as an emergency.<\/p>\n

Per court records seen by the Tribune<\/em>, the building\u2019s owner is, in a separate case, trying to evict Kelly for failure to pay rent. Earlier this week, the judge overseeing that case said Kelly owes the building $167,000.<\/p>\n

Kelly has not commented on either building-related case, but has denied the allegations of criminal wrongdoing brought forth by several alleged sexual abuse victims and their families. Since Lifetime\u2019s documentary came out, a number of artists including Lady Gaga and Phoenix have publicly apologized for collaborating with Kelly in the past, and the singer\u2019s estranged daughter Buku Abi called her father a \u201cmonster<\/a>\u201d in an Instagram story posted on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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One week after Lifetime released the documentary\u00a0Surviving R. Kelly and set off a renewed wave of public scrutiny into the singer\u2019s alleged history of sexual abuse, a judge has granted an emergency motion allowing Chicago building instructors to access the recording studio featured in the docuseries. Chicago\u2019s buildings department will investigate whether Kelly has converted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 09:31:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}