R. Kelly during R. Kelly's Chocolate Factory Afterparty in New York City, New York, United States. Photo / Getty
R. Kelly during R. Kelly's Chocolate Factory Afterparty in New York City, New York, United States. Photo / Getty
Kelly has been accused of grooming underage girls to be his "pets" by an ex-girlfriend.
In a documentary for BBC Three, Kitti Jones claims that she was forced to have sex with Kelly and others at least 10 times in a "sex dungeon".
Jones, who is 34, dated Kelly, 51,for two years from 2011. But she says she was groomed by him, and met others who had been too.
Singer R. Kelly attends New York Fashion Week. Photo / Getty
"I was introduced to one of the girls, that he told me he 'trained' since she was 14, those were his words. I saw that she was dressed like me, that she was saying the things I'd say and her mannerisms were like mine," she said in R Kelly: Sex, Girls and Videotapes.
"That's when it clicked in my head that he had been grooming me to become one of his pets. He calls them his pets," she added.
Jones says that Kelly made an unnamed woman "crawl on the floor towards [her]" and perform a sex act on her, while he said: "This is my f------ pet, I trained her. She's going to teach you how to be with me.'"
Kelly's representative told The Telegraph "Mr Kelly has no comment at this time". He has previously denied accusations of sexual impropriety or violence against women.
In October, the singer denied claims that he keeps a household of young women in a "cult" atmosphere after he as accused of running a "cult" of young aspiring female musicians, living in a series of houses in Atlanta and Chicago, and forbidding them from using their own mobile phones.
In July 2017, two sets of parents went to the police to try and win back their daughters, who they claimed approached the hitmaker with the aim of furthering their music careers, and ended up estranged from their families.
The police have investigated, but the girls insist they are in love with Kelly. And, as they are over the age of consent, there is nothing that law enforcement can do.
At the time, Kelly's lawyer, Linda Mensch, defended the singer:
"Mr Robert Kelly is both alarmed and disturbed at the recent revelations attributed to him," she said, in a statement emailed to The Telegraph.
