R. Kelly Legal Woes Worsen After Court No-Shows In Sex Abuse Lawsuit
It seems like R. Kelly is digging a deeper hole for himself after continuously missing court pertaining to his sex abuse lawsuit; and now the judge has granted a default judgement.
Additionally, the suit was filed by Heather Williams, a woman who claims she meet the singer on a Chicago street at age 16 in 1998. She adds that he sexually persuaded her into bed.
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Subsequent to him missing court dates, in turn losing his opportunities to defend himself, Judge Moira S. Johnson granted the default judgement against the singer. The ruling arrives days after the singer’s former Chicago landlord sued him for $3.4 million in back rent.
Furthermore, the singer’s sex abuse lawsuit case will be heard for a final time on March 10, per Williams’ lawyer.
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In addition to this trial, the singer is also still scheduled to appear in Chicago federal court in April on charges relating to him creating and possessing child pornography and sexual exploitation of a minor.
However, Kelly’s lawyer, Steve Greenberg, says his criminal cases in Chicago and Illinois will most likely be postponed; this due to the fact that his client garnered new federal charges .
Those charges claiming he sexually abused another minor over a four-year-period.