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R. Kelly'south legal and financial woes are far from over.

A judge ruled the embattled vocalist, R. Kelly, defaulted a lawsuit filed by a female name, Heather Williams, who claimed that the vocaliser lured her into sex when she was merely 16 years old, PageSix reported. The R&B icon is currently in jail awaiting trial for multiple sexual misconduct related charges, including anus charges of possessing child pornography and sexual exploitation of a pocket-sized. He missed some key court dates where he subsequently failed to defend himself against allegations fabricated by plaintiff Heather Williams.

Williams alleges she met the now-disgraced singer on a Chicago street in 1998 and was lured into a sexual relationship at his music studio with the hope of appearing in one of his videos.

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Concluding year, the judge made a default judgment in Williams' case after R. Kelly and his legal team failed to answer to her example. Kelly's attorneys then went back to court and successfully convinced the gauge to reopen the example. Their excuse was that he is illiterate and thus did non know that he was summons to court.

Kelly'southward lawyers then attempted to get the case dismissed on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired. The move was denied—the judge stating information technology was reasonable for Williams to fence that as a minor at the time, she had not realized that the relationship was abusive until years later.

Since then, R. Kelly'southward legal team has stepped down from the case entirely. Back in Jan, Zaid Abdallah, Shady Yassin, and Raed Shalabi – ceased representing Kelly. Now, Gauge Moira S. Johnson again granted the default judgment subsequently he was absent from however another hearing in the case on Tuesday, February 25, after refusing transportation from jail post-obit hernia surgery.

The last hearing for the case will be on March 10, 2020.