{"id":2447178,"date":"2019-08-05T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=867708"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:40:48","slug":"r-kelly-charged-with-soliciting-a-minor-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/r-kelly-charged-with-soliciting-a-minor-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly Charged With Soliciting a Minor in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"
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R. Kelly<\/a> was charged with soliciting a minor for sexual purposes and soliciting prostitution from someone under 18 today in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The alleged incident took place 18 years ago, in July 2001, according to the Hennepin County Attorney\u2019s Office. The StarTribune<\/a><\/em> said it was unclear if Kelly would make an appearance there.<\/p>\n

Mike Freeman, an attorney for the county, said the alleged incident occurred when a fan was trying to get an autograph from the singer before a concert. The lawyer claims Kelly gave the woman his phone number, and when she called him, he told her to go to his hotel room. \u201cAfter some discussion she was offered $200 to take off her clothes and dance for him,\u201d Freeman said, according to StarTribune<\/em>. \u201cAfter accepting the $200, she got naked and they proceeded to dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

They then had sexual contact, which the attorney said was not intercourse, and Kelly allegedly gave her VIP seats to his show. Afterwards, they stayed in contact and discussed a visit to Chicago, where Kelly lives. The newspaper did not disclose the victim\u2019s name or age at the time of the incident, though she was likely between the ages of 16 and 18 based on the charges.<\/p>\n

Freeman told TwinCities.com<\/a> that the three-year statute of limitations doesn\u2019t apply to Kelly since he did not remain in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

R. Kelly\u2019s lawyer, Steve Greenberg, tells Rolling Stone<\/em> that he considers the charged \u201cabsurd.\u201d \u201cThe facts as known show this is just a cry for attention by the prosecutor,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome girl comes in and starts dancing and says he touched her? What\u2019s she doing there dancing? It\u2019s enough already,\u201d Greenberg added to The Star Tribune.<\/em> \u201cThe idea of a statute of limitations is after a certain amount of time, you don\u2019t charge people. I\u2019m not going to waste my time on that case at this point. Until [Freeman] can get Mr. Kelly to Minnesota, I\u2019m not going to burn one brain cell on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

A representative for the Hennepin County Attorney\u2019s Office did not return Rolling Stone\u2019s<\/em> request for comment. The StarTribune<\/em> said the office learned of the alleged incident via a tip line.<\/p>\n

Last week, Kelly pleaded not guilty<\/a> to charges of racketeering and sex trafficking in a Brooklyn federal court. The judge in the case denied Kelly\u2019s bail, declaring him a flight risk. Kelly is also facing federal charges in Chicago<\/a> for child pornography, enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and conspiracy to obstruct justice.<\/p>\n

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R. Kelly was charged with soliciting a minor for sexual purposes and soliciting prostitution from someone under 18 today in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The alleged incident took place 18 years ago, in July 2001, according to the Hennepin County Attorney\u2019s Office. The StarTribune said it was unclear if Kelly would make an appearance there. Mike […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 19:04:39","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}