R. Kelly is Allegedly Holding Girls Against Their Will in a Cult

R. Kelly is being accused by former colleagues and several families of operating a sex-cult comprised of young women whose lives, they say, are totally controlled by the 50-year-old R&B singer.

BuzzFeed News  revealed in their latest story of 'The Pied Piper' that young women of consenting age are becoming involved with Kelz with the assumption that it will help their professional careers but only to end up leaving their homes, cutting off all contact with their families and living with R. Kelly and a group of other women in a cult-like environment where they carry on sexual relationships under a strict set of rules. And because the woman are all over the age of consent left on their on accord to be with R. Kelly, there isn't much police can do to return them to their families.

BuzzFeed conducted interviews with Cheryl Mack, Kitti Jones, and Asante McGee, all former members of Kelly’s entourage and also spoke with the families of two women desperate to get their daughters home.

'Mack, Jones, and McGee say six women live in properties rented by Kelly in Chicago and the Atlanta suburbs, and he controls every aspect of their lives: dictating what they eat, how they dress, when they bathe, when they sleep, and how they engage in sexual encounters that he records. According to Mack and Jones, if the women break any of Kelly’s “rules,” he punishes them physically and verbally.  Jones says Kelly once held her against a tree and slapped her for being too friendly with a male cashier at a Subway shop.'

According to the BuzzFeed report, authorities in Illinois and Georgia have administered welfare checks on Kelly's homes, upon learning of the allegations. No charges were brought up, however, due to the fact that the women are all of legal consenting age. Buzzfeed also spoke with Chicago attorney Susan E. Loggans, who declined to say how many settlements she has negotiated with Kelly before lawsuits were ever filed, but she said they were “numerous,” and recently included one for a 17-year-old aspiring singer from Chicago.