R Kelly ‘ENGAGED to victim Joycelyn Savage’ after receiving 30 years in jail and being put on suicide watch
R KELLY is allegedly engaged with one of his victims as the supposed relationship comes to light weeks after the disgraced R&B singer was jailed for 30 years. Joycelyn Savage revealed the alleged engagement in a letter to Judge Ann Donnelly, which was obtained by TMZ. “My name is Joycelyn Savage, and I’m Robert Kelly’s […]
R KELLY is allegedly engaged with one of his victims as the supposed relationship comes to light weeks after the disgraced R&B singer was jailed for 30 years.
Joycelyn Savage revealed the alleged engagement in a letter to Judge Ann Donnelly, which was obtained by TMZ.
“My name is Joycelyn Savage, and I’m Robert Kelly’s fiancé,” she reportedly penned in the letter.
“I’m writing this letter in support of Robert in advance of his sentencing, so I can explain to the court that I’m not the victim that the government has portrayed me to be.”
Savage goes on to say her “relationship with Robert is amazing,” and they’re “deeply in love”.
“He’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. We have a very special connection and are deeply in love.
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“I still support Robert to this day because I love him and will always be here to support him. Robert is not the monster that the government has described him to be.
“The Robert I know is very sweet, gentle, and king. At the end of the day, he has always made sure that I’m taken care of, and any other women he was with as well,” she added, according to TMZ.
Gerald Griggs, an attorney for Savage’s parents, told the outlet that she never made the engagement known to the family, and they’ve never even spoken about the possibility beforehand.
The family attorney questions the engagement’s legitimacy because Savage didn’t testify about it under oath and instead slipped it into the letter.
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Savage’s family “strongly doubts” the engagement story, TMZ reports.
The revelation comes two weeks after the disgraced singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being found guilty of orchestrating a scheme to recruit women and underage kids for sex.
The singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted of nine criminal counts last September, including violations of the Mann Act and racketeering.
Judge Ann M Donnelly told the former R&B hitmaker, 55, that “the public has to be protected from behaviors like this” before handing him a stiff sentence.
“These crimes were calculated and carefully planned and regularly executed for almost 25 years. You taught them that love is enslavement and violence,” Donnelly told the singer.
He declined to make a statement before he was sentenced due to pending litigation, according to his attorney.
When asked by the judge if he wished to make a statement, Kelly said, “Yes, your honor, that is my wish.”
Kelly is scheduled to face another federal trial alongside his former employees in Illinois.
In that indictment, he is accused of both producing child sexual abuse material and conspiring with employees to corruptly win his 2008 acquittal.
The trial is scheduled to begin on August 15.