{"id":803687,"date":"2020-01-31T08:36:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=946042"},"modified":"2020-01-31T08:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:36:24","slug":"r-kelly-ex-azriel-clary-accuses-singer-of-sexual-abuse-blackmail-in-new-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/r-kelly-ex-azriel-clary-accuses-singer-of-sexual-abuse-blackmail-in-new-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly Ex Azriel Clary Accuses Singer of Sexual Abuse, Blackmail in New Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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R. Kelly<\/a>\u2019s former girlfriend Azriel Clary levied accusations of sexual and physical abuse against the singer in a new interview that offered disturbing insight into Clary\u2019s years-long relationship with Kelly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to the Sun<\/em><\/a>, Clary detailed how Kelly allegedly used blackmail to keep women under his control while assuring that they wouldn\u2019t go to law enforcement with accusations against the singer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe has letters from people saying that they\u2019ve been molested or touched by their parents or their brothers or a family member. He even has people on film molesting their younger nieces or younger brothers,\u201d Clary claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so I know a lot of women out there are too embarrassed, humiliated, and ashamed to come out because this man had that much power to control them, to make them molest their younger niece or to molest their younger brother. Personally had I ever done anything like that, I would be entirely too ashamed to come forward. Thankfully, I\u2019ve never been in that situation. But have I seen it done to other women? Yes, I have.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Clary also claimed that Kelly has \u201chundreds of victims out there,\u201d as the singer allegedly had \u201cgirlfriends in every city.\u201d \u201cFor the most part he blackmails everyone. He makes everyone do very degrading stuff, whether on film or writing it down, he makes them sign it,\u201d Clary said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the interview, Clary claims that early on in her relationship with Kelly, he would \u201cbeat me with a shoe \u2013 a size 12, Nike Air Force One shoe\u201d for hours; one beating allegedly occurred after Kelly discovered Clary was talking to her high school friends via cellphone. \u201cAfterwards, he came in there and he apologized and sobbed and cried and he did everything to try and make me feel like he was so sincere,\u201d Clary said. \u201cSexual abuse did happen regularly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After viewing Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> for the first time while Kelly was behind bars without bail, Clary left the singer in November 2019 and returned to her family. Recently, Clary and Kelly\u2019s current girlfriend Joycelyn Savage got into a physical altercation at the singer\u2019s Trump Tower residence in Chicago, with the latter facing charges from the incident<\/a>. Speaking to the Sun<\/em> about the altercation, Clary said she only went to see Savage in an attempt to \u201csave her\u201d from Kelly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clary also admitted that she lied to CBS journalist Gayle King<\/a> in defending Kelly during her joint March 2019 interview with Savage in the aftermath of the Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> docuseries and the subsequent criminal charges against him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely do believe that I was very naive and very brainwashed and manipulated by him,\u201d Clary told the Sun<\/em>. <\/span>\u201cAnd as much as I hate to say it, I\u2019m woman enough and I\u2019m grown enough to admit that yes, I was brainwashed and yes, I was manipulated. And yes, this man did have me wrapped around his finger. If he would have told me to jump, I would have said, \u2018How high?\u2019 It was all in because I just genuinely just loved him and I love hard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s lawyer Steve Greenberg responded to Clary\u2019s claims in a series of tweets<\/a> Thursday. \u201cWe are surprised to learn that Ms. Clary is making these allegations,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhat she now says is directly contrary to truth, and the facts that have been brought forward by Ms. Clary in the past. It is also directly contrary to what we expect to be the proof. <\/span><\/p>\n

Greenberg continued, \u201cAs with other \u2018accusers,\u2019 the lack of proof and their past actions impeach them. In sum, Ms. Clary had a long-term consensual relationship with Mr. Kelly. It continued after he was arrested, when she was free to do as she wished. It is clear that she now seeks to personally capitalize from their relationship, and the only way to do so is to parrot the false narrative. The allegations are not true. Still, Mr. Kelly bears only good will towards Ms. Clary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

With Kelly pleading not guilty to federal charges in Brooklyn and Chicago as well as state charges in Illinois, Clary acknowledged that the singer has \u201cno choice\u201d but to maintain his innocence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI know that he knows that he\u2019s done something wrong. And truthfully I feel like because he\u2019s 53, he just knows that he has too much to lose now,\u201d Clary said. <\/span>\u201cAnd so he just really has no choice but to fight. He\u2019s been doing this for so long, he\u2019s been denying this for so long. He really has no choice but to continue to fight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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R. Kelly\u2019s former girlfriend Azriel Clary levied accusations of sexual and physical abuse against the singer in a new interview that offered disturbing insight into Clary\u2019s years-long relationship with Kelly. Speaking to the Sun, Clary detailed how Kelly allegedly used blackmail to keep women under his control while assuring that they wouldn\u2019t go to law […]<\/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-803687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 02:46:42","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\/803687","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=803687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}