Oop! R. Kelly’s attorney recently spoke with TMZ and shut down the claims that the singer’s alleged fiancée Joycelyn Savage is pregnant with his child.
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As we previously reported, Savage released a new 11-page book yesterday on Amazon, and in the book, Savage claimed she was pregnant with the R&B singers child. “Months later, I began expecting severe morning sickness and was unsure what was wrong with my body,” Savage reportedly writes. “I thought I had contracted COVID-19, but the most amazing news of all was that I was expecting. It was a happy day but an incomplete time in my life. Today I am grateful to God for giving me the most precious gift. Robert is extremely excited about the news that I am having a baby and feels sad that Robert will not be able to be here with us.”
Yet, in a statement to TMZ, Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, denied the claims, writing that Savage “is certainly not pregnant with R. Kelly’s child.” Bonjean also expressed that Savage’s book is not a tell-all memoir while adding that “people are just insane.”
In her book she would not confirm or deny her engagement to Kelly. It’s also unclear if the book has a publisher or not. “All I can say is that it is about Robert, the beginning of my life in Robert’s shadow, where things began to take off, and where they are currently going,” she said.
In her July letter to the court, Savage called Kelly — whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly — an “all-around incredible person” and “not the monster that the government has described him to be.”
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As we previously reported, throughout Kelly’s trial, prosecutors argued that Kelly sexually abused numerous young women and men, some of whom were underage, over a nearly two-decade period. Furthermore, they said he’d led an enterprise of managers, bodyguards and other employees who recruited the victims for him while giving them false hope that he’d help them with their entertainment careers. For years, Kelly was repeatedly accused of holding multiple women against their will — and treating many like he owned them — at his home for his own sexual gratification.