The most horrific allegations are that, beginning at age 8, Kelly was coerced into a sexual relationship with his older half-sister Theresa. Another story is of a male neighbor who exposed himself to Kelly. There was a time, at 8 years old, when he came home early from school to find a couple having sex in his apartment and was told to take Polaroids while they continued. An early section is devoted to his childhood in Chicago, where he encountered sexuality in many traumatic forms. Much of Soulless is spent trying to explain why Kelly is allegedly the way he is. (Note: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse.)
To give you a sense of what you’ll find in Soulless, Vulture compiled these eye-opening revelations and disturbing moments from the book. The book is packed start to finish with harrowing tales of Kelly’s exploits and history, including the sexual abuse he suffered as a child, the infamous tape of him urinating on an underage girl, and his alleged abuse of Jerhonda Pace, for which he’s currently facing multiple charges in Chicago.
The veteran music critic has reported on Kelly since 2000, when he received an anonymous fax at his office at the Chicago Sun-Times telling him that it was an open secret that the singer preyed on “young girls.” In horrifying detail, DeRogatis lays out the claims of 48 women against Kelly, often corroborated by court documents and members of the singer’s inner circle, painting the picture of a sadistic manipulator whose problems go far beyond just preferring younger women. Jim DeRogatis’s new book, Soulless, is a comprehensive document of the many allegations of statutory rape, sexual assault, and physical and psychological abuse levied against R. The reporter lays out 19 years of in-depth reporting and harrowing allegations.
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