R. Kelly’s brothers have named the elderly neighbor they say abused the singer from the age of eight in part two of a harrowing docu-series about his alleged sexual abuse.
The two men say a man called ‘Mr Henry’ in his 60s would expose himself to them, buy them food and once took R.Kelly, real name Robert Kelly, upstairs and ‘tried some inappropriate stuff with him’.
In Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning Kelly’s oldest brother, Bruce, who is in prison, says their mom called cops, before Mr Henry was beaten up by local neighborhood men.
They say he then bailed himself out of jail before bribing their mom with $5,000 to keep her quiet and drop the charges.
Carey Kelly, the singer’s younger brother, says Mr Henry was ‘the neighborhood uncle’, adding: ‘Everybody loved him and looked up to him.’
‘We thought he was a cool old man, a nice man’, Carey added.
The brothers say there was ‘someone else too’ who abused all three of them.
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Kelly’s oldest brother, Bruce, pictured, says their mom called cops, before Mr Henry was beaten up by local neighborhood men. They say he then bailed himself out of jail before bribing their mom with $5,000 to keep her quiet and drop the charges
Carey Kelly, R. Kelly’s younger brother, pictured, said the singer tried to convince him to take the fall for his child porn tape in 2002 and offered him $50,000 to do it. Carey is among those interviewed in the new series, Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning
Though allegations of sexual abuse against minors followed R&B superstar R. Kelly for years, it was a six-part series aired by Lifetime last January featuring testimonials by alleged survivors that sparked new attention from authorities.
A year later, Lifetime is readying a follow-up series, ” Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning, ” with one major difference: this time, R. Kelly will be behind bars when it airs.
Carey also revealed the singer offered him $50,000 to take the blame for a 2002 bootleg child porn tape which he went to court over.
Carey said he offered him a car, a record deal and $50,000 to say it was him having sex with an underage girl in the 27-minute tape.
R. Kelly in 2008 when he was put on trial on child porn charges. He was acquitted because the jury could not agree on the girl in the video being underage
It was filmed in 2002 and was sold on the street then but Kelly did not go to trial over it in 2008. Carey revealed in the docu-series how his brother begged him to take the blame.
‘He was asking me, “You need to say that was you.” Commit a crime pretty much to say that was me on the tape with a minor.
‘Perjure myself in a court of law and risk jail time for some stuff that didn’t have anything to do with me.
‘He was saying, “Man I’ll buy you a car, I’ll buy you a record deal, I’ll give you $50,000.”
‘I said, “Let me tell you something man. You ain’t got enough money for me to say that’s me. Because it ain’t worth me selling my soul.”‘
Jimmy Maynes was working for Jive Records when the tape emerged in 2002.
He reveals in the docu-series how later, when Kelly and him were alone in Chicago while working on a record, Kelly convinced him that he had a twin brother who was the one in the video.
In an interview with DailyMail.com on Thursday, ahead of the first part of the release, Maynes said he believed him because he wanted to.
He also revealed how he and other executives at Jive Records were hauled into a conference room to watch the video but says they did not know the girl in it was underage.
At the time Kelly was a world-famous star and perceived family man with a new wife and children.
Maynes said his priority was protecting his career. He did not know until later that the girl in the video was underage, he said.
‘At that time, we were thinking, “He’s an artist. This is horrible. He has a wife and kids.”
‘He wouldn’t have been the first artist to have relations outside of his marriage. It was a sex tape scandal, not a child porn scandal,’ he said.
Maynes was instructed to go out and buy as many copies of the tape he could find to try to get them off the street. Err
He said the girl was not obviously underage and that she looked ‘experienced’ and ‘like she knew what she was doing.’
The video shows Kelly having sex with her and then urinating on her. He was acquitted in 2008 because jurors could not decide on the age and identity of the girl in the footage.
Only later did Maynes say he started to become suspicious of Kelly’s behavior.
Music manager Jimmy Maynes said Kelly convinced him he had a twin who was the man in the video and not him. Maynes believed him because he was so convincing, he said. He went on to the street and bought up bootleg copies of the tape in 2002 to try to protect Kelly’s career
He had gone to Chicago to work with him and said there were often ‘young girls’ at the studio until 2am, which he thought was inappropriate.
While he said he never saw Kelly have sex with any of them, he could not think of any other reason for them to be there.
Kelly told him that the girls were not there for him and that other artists working out of the studio must have sent for them.
The issue of the twin came up when the pair were stuck in a network of corridors in the studio.
‘He was saying, “I can’t believe everybody’s coming at me. Then his story was so believable that I was so convinced. ‘I said, “This explains it all.” Why would he lie? It’s never come up. And twins, it’s possible. I went to sleep that night feeling relieved, thinking we’ll get out of this. ‘I woke up the next day saying to myself, “Jimmy you know damn well he does not have a twin.” I did feel manipulated.
Music manager Jimmy Maynes
Kelly, he claimed, brought it up.
‘He assumed I knew [about the allegation that the girl was underage.] He said, “It’s not even me. It’s my twin,”‘ Maynes recalled.
‘He was saying, “I can’t believe everybody’s coming at me. Then his story was so believable that I was so convinced.
‘I said, “This explains it all.” Why would he lie? It’s never come up. And twins, it’s possible. I went to sleep that night feeling relieved, thinking we’ll get out of this.
‘I woke up the next day saying to myself, “Jimmy you know damn well he does not have a twin.” I did feel manipulated,’ Maynes said.
They finished out their working relationship but Maynes said Kelly stalled the process repeatedly by trying to pressure an unnamed female artist he was working with into sex.
Maynes was also working with the singer and she was 18 at the time but refused repeatedly to have sex with him and would not be left alone in the studio with him. Kelly would set times for recording sessions then show up hours later, he said.
The woman wishes to remain anonymous. It is unclear if their song was ever recorded.
Maynes returned from Chicago to L.A. once the project was finished and stopped working with Kelly.
He next heard from him last year, in the spring time, through a mutual friend.
Maynes said the friend relayed to him that Kelly wanted to hire him as his manager. He had become known for reviving the careers of 90s stars and Kelly wanted him to do the same for him.
Kelly is shown in court in September. He is awaiting trial on a range of sex abuse charges. Maynes thinks he is going to mentally unravel and turn into a ‘basket case’
He says he declined to work with him because he would not seek psychological help.
‘I think he was trying to associate himself with someone in a positive fashion. He was maybe thinking, “here’s a straight-shooting guy with some credibility.”
‘I didn’t feel he was ready to deal with the allegations head on. I asked, “Are we talking about getting help?” He was talking about playing the victim,” Maynes said.
Kelly went on to take part in a now infamous interview with Gayle King where he screamed and cried as he protested his innocence.
Maynes now believes he will become a ‘basket case’ because he has nowhere to express his creativity which, he said, occupies a large part of his character.
He compared Kelly’s downfall to that of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston and said there ought to be more psychological help for artists who are struggling.
‘We took from him too. The industry needs to catch up from a moral perspective. We take a lot from these artists. We make a lot of money from them.
‘The yes man mentality needs to change. Look at Tekashi 69, look at Whitney Houston,’ he said.
‘People look the other way. Someone could have said, “I’m stopping this right now,”‘ he said.
He added that many other secrets about celebrity behavior remain secret because of the culture of discretion which dictates working with stars in the music industry.
‘Everyone feels like this is a hands-off subject. Even now, they’re like “I’m not touching that,”‘ he said, in reference to the docu-series.
‘We work on a certain level of anonymity. It’s like working for the president. There are things that I know that the public will never know.
‘I’m just tired of the cornerstone of not saying anything,’ he said.
Kelly, 52, is currently in jail, scheduled to stand trial in Cook County in September, then in federal court in Chicago in April and again in federal court in New York the next month.
Kelly has denied all the allegations related to sexual assault with minors, but the #MuteRKelly movement has damaged his financial stability. He did himself few favors when he portrayed himself as a victim in a combative interview with Gayle King in which he pounded his chest and yelled into the camera.
Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning will air on January 2, 3 and 4.