Additional allegations were aired in a court filing on Friday, including that he s.exu.ally abused a 17-year-old he met at McDonald’s
Federal prosecutors in R Kelly’s se.x tra.ffic.king case say he had se.xual contact with a teenage boy as well as girls, and jurors should hear the claims in his upcoming trial.
A wide-ranging raft of additional allegations – but not new charges – were levelled against the US R&B star in a court filing on Friday, including that he propositioned and had s.ex.ual contact with a 17-year-old boy he met at McDonald’s after claiming he would help him break into the music industry.
Kelly denies ever abusing anyone, and his lawyers did not immediately comment on the new allegations.
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The Grammy Award-winning singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, is set to face trial in New York in August on charges including child sexual exploitation, making indecent images images of minors, racketeering and obstruction of justice.
The charges involve six women and girls who are not named in court filings.
Now, prosecutors would also like jurors to hear about more than a dozen other people whom they allege that Kelly sexually or physically abused, threatened or otherwise mistreated.
R Kelly’s New York trial is scheduled to start on 9 August They include the 17-year-old aspiring musician whom Kelly met at the fast-food restaurant in December 2006 and later invited to his Chicago studio.