Ok. This is getting ridiculous. I won’t say that I believe that even in the face of R Kelly’s June acquittal from his indictment for soliciting a minor for child pornography, that he was truly innocent. Depending on who you talk to this guy caught a lucky break. If you are like me you wished he would skulk off to the surreal world and never come back. Instead now, we are hearing news of Kelly’s involvement in a case which involves; a South African tour led by the Singer ( which never happened), People being defrauded of thousands of dollars to go on the tour ( which never happened) and a deposit in excess of 1 million dollars from some or all of these funds into one of R Kelly’s very traceable bank accounts ( which by some accounts did happen) His representatives responded today saying that

“There is absolutely no truth to the reports that R. Kelly received money from a South African woman accused of swindling investors by convincing them to invest in a non-existent R. Kelly tour in 2005. Mr. Kelly has no knowledge of this woman, has never received any money from her, and has not been contacted by any law enforcement authorities regarding the matter. He will, of course, cooperate fully with any legitimate investigation of this matter, since he has nothing to hide.”

Let’s hope that R is telling the truth. But given his track record, we’ll have to wait and see.

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Update: E Online is reporting on this story also but their details are a little different. According to E’s report the amount of money deposited into R’s account was One Hundred and Thirty Thousand and that is was for a 2005 concert which in the end did not take place. There story is also consistent in the allegation that a receipt has been produced which clearly demonstrates that a deposit was made to R Kelly’s bank account.

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