TeeRoy's 2 Cents:
- The singer’s lawyers have suggested that his accusers are just looking for a payday, and claimed that consent isn’t an issue for a rock star like Kells. Gross. Who really thinks a 14-year-old is capable of giving consent to a grown man?
- The singer's lawyers have also said that they think all of the victims are lying.
- It really takes guts to be caught on tape and then still deny that it's you.
- Haven't these victims been through enough?
- While $100,000 might not seem like a lot for one of the biggest R&B singers of all time, he has numerous financial problems, including unpaid rent and six figures owed in child support.
- He's innocent until proven guilty. Even if all the evidence seems to point in one direction, he still deserves his day in court to argue his case.
- It's going to be a lot harder to influence the outcome of the trial, with the money or power he had a decade ago.
- None of these tapes in question are the same tape that was at the center of the 2008 trial.
New allegations around the singer popped up this month from four women, three of whom were underage when they were allegedly abused by the singer. This time around, there are multiple pieces of evidence including VHS tapes that appear to show the singer and a young girl, both of whom make repeated references to a 14-year-old body part. There is also new DNA evidence, including a T-shirt that positively matched with the singer. Lawyer Michael Avenatti says he has acquired a second tape that he's submitting to prosecutors and is working on acquiring a third.
Kelly is in Cook County Jail in Chicago unable to post 10 percent of his million-dollar bail. (Chicago Tribune)