R. Kelly Associate Michael Williams Admits To Setting Accuser Azriel Clary’s SUV On Fire
Socialites, get into this! Back in June of last year, R. Kelly’s ex-girlfriend/ accuser Azriel Clary revealed she was the victim of an arson attack and said she was lucky to be alive. In a picture shared on Instagram of her damaged SUV, she said someone not only burned her car but also attempted to burn her house down too!
“So, this is me at my lowest… Someone not only set my car on fire at 3 am but they also made a gas line around my entire house, with intentions to burn my entire home down. It was something that was premeditated, but the fact that someone would go to that extreme to harm me is sickening,” Clary said at the time.
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An R. Kelly associate is now being held responsible for the crime. This Monday Michael Williams, 38, took a plea deal for trying to silence the witness in the R&B singer’s racketeering case by setting her SUV on fire. Williams copped to one count of arson for destroying the vehicle that was rented by the woman’s father, which was parked in front of the Kissimmee, Florida, home where she and her family were staying, the news site notes. Prosecutors have agreed to drop the witness tampering charge against him since he accepted the deal. However, he’s still looking at a minimum of 60 months in prison and a maximum of 71 months under federal sentencing guidelines.
Defense lawyer Todd Spodek said: “The plea agreement is fair in that the witness tampering charge as it relates to R. Kelly will be dismissed at sentencing.”
Mr. William was charged last year alongside Donnell Russell and Richard Arline Jr., who were each accused of trying to silence Kelly’s alleged victims. Meanwhile, the disgraced singer is still in the slammer awaiting trial in Brooklyn federal court on more than a dozen criminal counts of sex trafficking, racketeering, coercion, and other raps related to the abuse of six women and girls, Page Six reports.