The lawyer who defended R. Kelly in a decade-old child
pornography case has just said that the R&B legend was guilty of those
charges and even received anti-libido drugs to help contain his urges.
“He was guilty as hell!” Ed Genson, 77, told the Chicago
Sun-Times from his Deerfield Ill., home. He however said he believes “Trapped
in the Closet” singer hasn’t done anything “inappropriate” in years.
“I’ll tell you a secret. I had him go to a doctor to get
shots, libido-killing shots. That’s why he didn’t get arrested for anything
else” he said. Genson, who has terminal bile duct cancer, told the paper he
doesn’t feel ambivalent about getting Kelly acquitted and keeping him out of
prison in 2008.
“I didn’t facilitate him. He had already done what he’d
done. I did facilitate him in the sense I kept him out of trouble for 10 years.
I was vetting his records. I listened to them, which ones would make a judge
mad” Genson said.
One song in particular; 2003’s “Ignition” tipped Genson off
that the singer might be into underage girls, he said. “I was riding in the
car, listening to a song and said, ‘Are you crazy? This is all I need,'” Genson
recalled. “It’s a song related to a guy
driving around in a car with his girlfriend. It was originally a high school
instructor in a class teaching people how to drive a car. I changed the words,”
he said.
Even though Kelly has written numerous hit songs, Genson
said the star is “not a very bright person” and might have become reckless
after beating child pornography raps in Florida.
“What he doesn’t understand is this: If you win a case with
somebody, they think they’re bulletproof. You’re almost better off, sort of,
losing. He thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants. He has done everything
he can to hurt himself” Genson said.
R Kelly is facing 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse,
including against minors; allegations that he denies.
