New R. Kelly Accuser Alleges Starvation, Beatings at Hands of R&B Star
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Kitti Jones says she was essentially enslaved.
Rolling Stone has published an interview with yet another woman who has accused singer R. Kelly of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, the latest in a decades-long stream of allegations against Kelly by women with whom he has had personal relationships.
Kitti Jones was a successful radio DJ in Dallas when she met Kelly at an afterparty following a concert in 2011. He flew her out to a subsequent show in Denver, where they first had sex. Later that year Jones quit her job and moved into Kelly’s Chicago apartment, and so began what she now describes as two years of abuse and control, from physical altercations to directives about what she was permitted to wear, who she could talk to, and when—or if—she could eat.
According to Rolling Stone, Jones overlooked signs that Kelly’s concept of a monogamous relationship was unconventional to say the least, and voluntarily moved from his apartment into living quarters at his recording studio, where several other women in his orbit also lived. Jones alleges the women there were regularly abused, denied food, deprived of their phones and other means of communication, and forced to have group sex that sometimes included Kelly urinating on one or more of them.