{"id":792196,"date":"2019-01-19T07:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=781699"},"modified":"2019-01-19T07:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:02:21","slug":"two-r-kelly-accusers-detail-allegations-against-singer-on-dateline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/two-r-kelly-accusers-detail-allegations-against-singer-on-dateline\/","title":{"rendered":"Two R. Kelly Accusers Detail Allegations Against Singer on \u2018Dateline\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A pair of R. Kelly<\/a> accusers detailed their allegations of sexual abuse against the singer in a Dateline<\/em> special that aired Friday night on NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccused: The R. Kelly Story\u201d featured new interviews with Tracy Sampson, who first spoke to the Washington Post<\/em> in May 2018<\/a>, and Jerhonda Pace, the subject of an August 2017 Buzzfeed expos\u00e9<\/a>. Both women claim that they were underage when they entered into a sexual relationship with Kelly.<\/p>\n

Sampson, now 36 years old, told Dateline<\/em> she was a 16-year-old intern working at Epic Records in 1999 when she met Kelly. \u201c\u2018Can I kiss you?\u2019 and I was like, \u2018No,’\u201d she said the singer asked her. \u201c\u2018Well, give me a hug.\u2019 And then, like, when I gave him a hug he just started kissing me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sampson added, \u201cI was in love with him. I just didn\u2019t know what to do. Like, I didn\u2019t know if this was normal. I didn\u2019t know if this is how adults acted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dateline<\/em> interview marked the first time Sampson discussed her allegations on-camera; she signed a non-disclosure agreement with Kelly in 2002 after agreeing to a $250,000 settlement.<\/p>\n

Pace, in addition to detailing the allegations she made in the Buzzfeed article, told Dateline<\/em> she handed over a T-shirt with Kelly\u2019s DNA \u2013 both from saliva and semen \u2013 to a Chicago-area police department, who confirmed that Pace had provided them with evidence. Pace claimed the T-shirt was worn during a sexual encounter she had with the singer when she was 16 years old.<\/p>\n

Dateline<\/em> also spoke to Kelly\u2019s lawyer Steven Greenberg. In the hours preceding the special, it was revealed that Kelly and Sony Music and RCA Records had parted ways<\/a>, and in his comments to NBC, Greenberg revealed, \u201cThe record companies are abandoning him. Other artists are all of a sudden acting like they\u2019re shocked by these rumors that are floating around. He\u2019s having a very difficult time. But he is strong, he\u2019s tough. He wants to put out his music and continue performing for people. And I expect that\u2019s what he\u2019ll be able to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dateline<\/em>\u2018s hour-long special followed Lifetime\u2019s six-part docuseries Surviving R. Kelly<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0whose cameras captured a daring reunion between Michelle Kramer and her daughter Dominique<\/a>, who had been estranged from her mother while a part of Kelly\u2019s alleged \u201csex cult.\u201d Accused: The R. Kelly Story<\/em> provided an update on the reunited mother and daughter:<\/p>\n

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Hear another mother\u2019s story #Dateline<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/QIXPa4OAQx<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dateline NBC (@DatelineNBC) January 19, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pair of R. Kelly accusers detailed their allegations of sexual abuse against the singer in a Dateline special that aired Friday night on NBC. \u201cAccused: The R. Kelly Story\u201d featured new interviews with Tracy Sampson, who first spoke to the Washington Post in May 2018, and Jerhonda Pace, the subject of an August 2017 […]<\/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-792196","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 16:16:17","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\/792196","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=792196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}