Azriel Clary is the latest R. Kelly survivor who is speaking out about her troubling experience with the singer. Clary, 21, had been dating R. Kelly at the time that the disturbing stories about him started flooding out and she stood by him up until last month. She defended him in his famous interview with Gayle King and when interrogated by federal agents, but now she’s having a moment of disillusionment. Last week, she spoke to The Sun, detailing the mental and physical abuse to which R. Kelly has subjected her. According to TMZ, she plans to share this information with the feds to aid in prosecuting the disgraced singer in his New York sex crimes case.  

Sources say that Clary is no longer afraid of exposing Kelly because she has severed all times from him. While she and her family have apparently been receiving death threats from angered Kelly apologists, she has both legal and emotional support systems to encourage her to speak out. 

Kelly’s lawyer, Steven Greenberg, was not surprised to learn that Clary would be turning on his client. “It’s not news to me,” he told TMZ. “I’ve suspected it all along, but you can’t get in the way of love… Rob’s love for her.” The latest development is Kelly’s federal case is that his request to have two accusers’ identities revealed was denied, as the judge feared he would intimidate witnesses. 

For some reason, R. Kelly has been expecting prosecutors to take it easy on him. Earlier today, it was reported that his request was denied to have the identities of two Jane Doe accusers revealed in his federal case. Kelly’ lawyer, Steve Greenberg, claimed that it would be difficult to build a defence without this information, but the judge was more concerned about Kelly intimidating his alleged victims, as he has in the past. 

Turns out Greenberg had also asked the judge to cut Kells some slack in regards to his attendance at an upcoming hearing. There is a hearing scheduled for February 6 in New York for his federal case, but Kelly wished to be exempt from appearing at it. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Greenberg wrote in a letter to the judge that he would not be able to make it on that date and neither would another one of Kelly’s lawyers. 

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Frankly, the prosecutors did not give two hoots about whatever excuse Kelly and his team were providing. They responded to the request: “In light of the upcoming trial date and the serious nature of the charges that the defendant faces, the government respectfully requests that, absent a compelling reason, the defendant appear by video conference at the conference scheduled for February 6, 2020.”