{"id":792267,"date":"2019-01-22T15:41:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=782628"},"modified":"2019-01-22T15:41:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:41:19","slug":"r-kelly-hit-with-66-violations-for-his-sauna-filled-recording-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/r-kelly-hit-with-66-violations-for-his-sauna-filled-recording-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly Hit With 66 Violations for His Sauna-Filled Recording Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A judge slapped R. Kelly<\/a>\u2019s Chicago recording studio with 66 building code violations on Tuesday, totaling a potential $66,000 per day, and ordered that the studio \u2014 a space that the singer has turned into illegal living quarters, complete with kitchen, bar room and sauna \u2014 no longer be used as a residence.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like people are living there, and that\u2019s not good,\u201d said Cook County judge Patrice Ball-Reed after viewing photos taken during the city\u2019s buildings inspection of Kelly\u2019s space at 219 N. Justine last week, according to the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/em>. \u201cSomeone is living there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly \u2014 whose alleged history of sexual assault has been the renewed subject of national public attention in recent years \u2014 was first ordered to allow inspectors<\/a> into his recording studio on January 11th, after the city received an anonymous 311 call claiming that two people were illegally living in the commercially zoned building. Tuesday\u2019s court order demands that the space be rehabilitated to comply with regulations, as well as vacated as a living space.<\/p>\n

Court documents obtained by Rolling Stone<\/em> note that Kelly needs to perform a \u201cfull gut rehab of the entire building\u201d to fix its code breaches, including \u201cconstruction or alteration work contrary to original plan of construction without obtaining a permit; specifically, building originally a photography studio \u2026 [the space] now consists of a recording studio with bathrooms, sauna room, steam room, bathtubs, kitchen area, bar area, recording rooms, bedrooms, and multiple heating-plant rooms,\u201d all of which violate various city building codes.<\/p>\n

Other infractions include the failure to \u201cremove rubbish, excess storage,\u201d failure to maintain adequate clearance around heat-producing appliances, failure to \u201cmaintain floor free from hopes and wide cracks and free from loose, warped, protruding or rotting floor boards\u201d and multiple failures to protect from fire hazards. Each violation is punishable with a fine of $500 to $1,000 per day, or $34,000 to $66,000 a day total.<\/p>\n

Kelly is the only occupant of the warehouse building, which houses his recording studio on the first floor. Officers from Chicago\u2019s building department found multiple signs of people occupying the space as a residence during their hour-long inspection of the building last week, including toiletries, towels, shoes, clothing and two bathtubs sporting \u201cwaste and over flows\u201d due to not having drain plugs installed.<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s lawyer did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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A judge slapped R. Kelly\u2019s Chicago recording studio with 66 building code violations on Tuesday, totaling a potential $66,000 per day, and ordered that the studio \u2014 a space that the singer has turned into illegal living quarters, complete with kitchen, bar room and sauna \u2014 no longer be used as a residence. \u201cIt looks […]<\/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-792267","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 18:39:55","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\/792267","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=792267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}