R&B superstar R Kelly walked out of the Cook County Jail in Chicago on Monday after posting bail of a hundred thousand dollars.
Kelly, who is facing several charges of sexually assaulting underage girls, spent three days behind bars, whilst his legal team tried to help him come up with the money he needed for bail.
The Singer pleaded not guilty to charges he sexually abused four women, three of whom were underage at the time of the alleged assaults, over a span of a dozen years.
Also Monday, celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti, who earlier this month gave prosecutors a VHS tape purportedly depicting Kelly having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl, told reporters that he had turned over yet another videotape.
The singer, whose legal name is Robert Kelly, was separated from the general inmate population in the jail's medical wing.
This is not the first time that Kelly has been accused in a court of law. In a sensational trial in 2008, six years after he was indicted, the singer was acquitted of child pornography charges alleging he filmed
himself having sex with his goddaughter, a girl estimated to have been as young as 13.
At Kelly's bond hearing Saturday, prosecutors alleged that Kelly tried to force oral sex on his 24-year-old hairdresser in 2003 while he was free on bond on the then-pending child pornography charges.
Among the other allegations laid out by prosecutors that Kelly solicited an underage girl outside his 2008 criminal trial and later sexually abused her; that he carried on a yearlong sexual relationship with a girl he had met in 1998 when she was celebrating her 16th birthday; and that he videotaped himself having sex with a young girl at his home in Olympia Fields in the late 1990s.
Kelly, 52, who has been dogged for years by accusations of sexual misconduct of underage girls and women, was charged Friday in four separate indictments.
Each of the 10 Class 2 felony counts carries a maximum of seven years in prison upon conviction but also could result in probation.
The indictments come at a time of intensifying professional trouble for Kelly, who has been targeted by the social media movement #MuteRKelly, which called on streaming services and radio stations to
drop his music and promoters not to book any more concerts.
-Chigaco (tca/dpa)
-picture: (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
