R Kelly supporter faces charges for using his YouTube channel to threaten three female prosecutors who helped secure singer’s sex crime convictions
- Christopher Gunn, 39, post videos as ‘DeBoski Gunn’ on YouTube, several of which are titled ‘R Kelly Propaganda’ in an attempt to clear the singer’s name
- Gunn has been charged in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn with making threats involving serious bodily injury or death
- The charge stems from a live-streamed video to Gunn’s YouTube account in October where he allegedly held up a picture of the US Attorney’s Office
- He told viewers ‘get real familiar with this building,’ according to the feds. He added: ‘if [Kelly] goes down, everybody’s going down’
- Gunn then gives the names of the women who tried Kelly for the prosecution
- The complaint also says that Gunn has been paid via CashApp from people making comments like ’30 rounds.. free R kelly’ and ’30 rounds on the haters’
A YouTuber who has made videos defending R Kelly now faces charges of his own after allegedly threatening three women who prosecuted the singer, who is set to be sentenced for sex trafficking today.
Christopher Gunn, 39, post videos as ‘DeBoski Gunn’ on YouTube, several of which are titled ‘R Kelly Propaganda’ in an attempt to clear the singer’s name. His last video on the case was titled ‘R Kelly Propaganda PT 75.’
Gunn has been charged in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn with making threats involving serious bodily injury or death.
The charge stems from a live-streamed video to Gunn’s YouTube account in October where he allegedly held up a picture of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
He told viewers ‘get real familiar with this building,’ according to the feds. He added: ‘if [Kelly] goes down, everybody’s going down.’
Gunn then gives the names of the women who tried Kelly for the prosecution before showing a scene from the movie Boyz N’ the Hood that showed a character loading a gun and included a sound of a gunshot. The women are all referred to as ‘Jane Doe’ in the complaint.
He has previously been arrested by the NYPD in September 2021 on a day that he attended Kelly’s trial in New York, according to Buzzfeed. His name appears on an attendance log for the trial on September 3.
The complaint also says that Gunn has been paid via CashApp from people making comments like ’30 rounds.. free R kelly’ and ’30 rounds on the haters.’
If convicted, Gunn faces up to five years in prison.
A YouTuber who has made videos defending R Kelly now faces charges of his own after allegedly threatening three women who prosecuted the singer, who is set to be sentenced for sex trafficking today
Christopher Gunn, 39, post videos as ‘DeBoski Gunn’ on YouTube, several of which are titled ‘R Kelly Propaganda’ in an attempt to clear the singer’s name. His last video on the case was titled ‘R Kelly Propaganda PT 75’
The charge stems from a live-streamed video to Gunn’s YouTube account in October where he allegedly held up a picture of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York
Kelly faces up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced for sex trafficking today at a federal court in New York.
The R&B star, 55, was found guilty of racketeering and other counts last year at a trial that was seen as a signature moment in the #MeToo movement.
Prosecutors are seeking a minimum 25-year term, while the defense says a sentence of 10 years or less is all he deserves.
Kelly’s lawyers argued in court papers he should get a break in part because he ‘experienced a traumatic childhood involving severe, prolonged childhood sexual abuse, poverty, and violence.’
Outrage over Kelly’s sexual misconduct with young women and children was fueled in part by the widely watched docuseries Surviving R Kelly, which gave voice to accusers who wondered if their stories were previously ignored because they were Black women.
R Kelly faces up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced for sex trafficking today at a federal court in New York (pictured in 2019)
The R&B star, 55, was found guilty of racketeering and other counts last year at a trial that was seen as a signature moment in the #MeToo movement (pictured in 2015)
Kelly said over 14 hours of interviews with psychiatric experts that his closest relationship growing up was with his mother Joanne.
He recalled watching her perform with her band Six Pack and going to McDonald’s in fond memories of his childhood.
The singer never met his father and said his mother’s death was the most tragic event of his life, and he would frequently visit McDonald’s later to smell the coffee and remember her, Renee Sorrentino, a clinical assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, said in a letter.
The future R&B star also saw his childhood sweetheart drown when he was a child, and multiple people claimed he was repeatedly abused when he was aged six or seven.
His attorney claims his older sister and a landlord abused him on a ‘weekly basis’, and this may have contributed to his ‘hypersexuality’, Sorrentino claims.
U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly is set to impose the sentence today at a federal court in Brooklyn after hearing statements from victims and possibly Kelly himself.
They added: ‘His victimization continued into adulthood where, because of his literacy deficiencies, the defendant has been repeatedly defrauded and financially abused, often by the people he paid to protect him.’
The jury convicted the I Believe I Can Fly hitmaker after hearing about how he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise.
Several accusers testified that Kelly subjected them to perverse and sadistic whims when they were underage.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, used his ‘fame, money and popularity’ to systematically ‘prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification,’ prosecutors wrote in their own filing earlier this month.
Timeline of R. Kelly’s downfall from R&B superstar to ‘sexual predator’
August 1994: At age 27, R. Kelly marries 15-year-old R&B singer Aaliyah D. Haughton. The couple weds in a secret ceremony arranged by Kelly at a hotel in Chicago. The marriage is annulled months later because of Aaliyah’s age. Aaliyah dies in a plane crash seven years later at age 22.
February 1997: Tiffany Hawkins files a complaint against Kelly alleging intentional sexual battery and sexual harassment while she was a minor. The lawsuit is reportedly settled for $250,000 the following January.
August 2001: Tracy Sampson files a lawsuit against Kelly, alleging their sex was illegal under Illinois law because he was in ‘a position of authority’ over her. The case was reportedly settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
February 2002: The Chicago Sun-Times reported that it received a videotape allegedly showing Kelly having sex with a minor. The paper reported Chicago police began investigating allegations about Kelly and the same girl three years earlier. At the time, the girl and her parents denies she was having sex with Kelly.
June 2002: Kelly is indicted in Chicago on child pornography charges stemming from the sex tape. He pleads not guilty and is released on $750,000 bail.
January 2003: Kelly is arrested at a Florida hotel on additional child pornography charges after investigators said they found photos of him having sex with a girl. Charges are later dropped after the judge ruled police didn´t have a warrant to search Kelly’s house.
September 2005: Kelly’s wife Andrea Kelly asks for an order of protection from her husband, accusing the singer of hitting her when she said she wanted a divorce. The couple confirm they have divorced in 2009.
February 2006: Kelly’s brother, Carey Kelly, says his brother offered him $50,000 and a record deal to say he was the person on the sex video.
May 2008: Kelly’s child pornography trial begins. He is acquitted on all counts the next month after less than a full day of deliberations.
July 2017: BuzzFeed reports on parents’ claims that Kelly brainwashed their daughters and was keeping them in an abusive ‘cult.’ One woman says she was with Kelly willingly. Following the BuzzFeed report, activists launched the #MuteRKelly movement, calling for boycotts of his music.
April 2018: The Time’s Up campaign, devoted to helping women in the aftermath of sexual abuse, joins the #MuteRKelly social media campaign and pushes for further investigation into Kelly’s behavior, which had come under closer scrutiny over the previous year as women came forward accusing him of sexual coercion and physical abuse. Kelly´s camp responds: ‘We will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man who has made extraordinary contributions to our culture.’
May 2018: Spotify cuts R. Kelly’s music from its playlists, citing its policy on hate content and hateful conduct. Shortly after, Apple and Pandora also stop promoting his music. Kelly’s team pushes back, noting other artists on Spotify had been accused or convicted of crimes.
The same month Faith Rodgers, 20, files a lawsuit accusing R. Kelly of sexual battery, mental and verbal abuse, and knowingly inflicting her with herpes during a yearlong relationship.
January 2019: Lifetime airs the documentary ‘Surviving R. Kelly,’ which revisited old allegations against him and brought new ones into the spotlight. The series followed the BBC’s ‘R Kelly: Sex, Girls & Videotapes,’ released the previous year, that alleged the singer was holding women against their will.
Lady Gaga apologizes for her 2013 duet with Kelly, saying she intended to remove the song, ‘Do What U Want (With My Body),’ from streaming services.
Faith Rogers says Kelly had written a letter the previous October to one of her lawyers, threatening to reveal embarrassing details of her sexual history if she didn’t drop her May 2018 lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse.
Multiple media outlets reports Kelly and his label, Sony subsidiary RCA Records, part ways. Lady Gaga and Celine Dion remove their duets with Kelly from streaming services, and French rock band Phoenix apologizes for collaborating with Kelly in 2013. Kelly continues to deny all allegations of sexual misconduct.
February 2019: Attorney Michael Avenatti says he gave Chicago prosecutors new video evidence of Kelly having sex with an underage girl, and that it is not the same evidence used in Kelly’s 2008 trial.
Kelly is arrested and charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse. Kelly’s attorney enters not guilty pleas on the singer’s behalf. Hours later, Kelly posts bail and is released from jail in Chicago.
March 2019: CBS airs interview in which Kelly vehemently denied the sexual abuse charges against him. Later, authorities in Cook County take Kelly into custody after he tells a judge he couldn´t pay $161,000 in back child support he owed his children’s mother.
May 2019: Kelly is charged with 11 new sex-related counts in Chicago. They involve one of the women who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was underage.
July 2019: Kelly is indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago on charges including child pornography, enticement of a minor and obstruction of justice. A separate indictment filed in the Eastern District of New York included charges of racketeering, kidnapping, forced labor and the sexual exploitation of a child. He is again arrested in Chicago.
A federal judge orders Kelly held in jail without bond after a prosecutor warned he would pose an extreme danger to young girls if set free.
August 2019: Kelly pleads not guilty to federal charges accusing him of sexually abusing women and girls who attended his concerts, as his lawyers continue to label the alleged victims disgruntled ‘groupies.’
Kelly is charged in Minnesota with prostitution and solicitation related to an allegation that he invited a 17-year-old girl to his hotel room in 2001 and paid her $200 to dance naked with him.
October 2019: Kelly is denied bail in his New York City sex abuse case after a judge agreed with prosecutors that freeing him from jail would create a risk of him fleeing or tampering with witnesses.
December 2019: Kelly is charged by federal prosecutors with paying a bribe in exchange for a ‘fraudulent identification document’ for an unidentified female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah. He later pleads not guilty.
March 2020: Kelly pleads not guilty in Chicago to an updated federal indictment that included child pornography charges and allegations involving a new accuser, while prosecutors say more charges alleging yet another victim were upcoming.
August 2020: Federal prosecutors announce charges against three men accused of threatening and intimidating women who have accused R&B singer Kelly of abuse, including one man suspected of setting fire to a vehicle in Florida.
Kelly’s manager is arrested in California on charges that he threatened a shooting at a Manhattan theater two years ago, forcing an evacuation and the cancellation of the screening of a documentary addressing allegations that the singer had sexually abused women and girls.
July 2021: Federal prosecutors in Kelly´s sex trafficking case say he had sexual contact with an underage boy in addition to girls, and the government wants jurors in his upcoming trial to hear those claims.
August 2021: Kelly’s long-anticipated federal trial begins in New York with opening statements on August 18.
September 2021: After a six-week long trial, the jury find Kelly guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking.
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