The Kelly file . . .
Hit the brakes!
Cancel the shifting van!
Sneed hears singer R. Kelly’s two live-in girlfriends — who had been searching for new Chicago digs outdoors Trump Tower after Kelly was despatched to jail on sexual abuse fees — at the moment are staying put.
“I’m told they [Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage] have apparently decided to keep their living arrangement at Trump Tower,” stated Kelly’s Chicago legal professional, Steve Greenberg, who instructed Sneed final month the apartment lease was paid up solely by the tip of September and his two live-in girlfriends had been on the brink of transfer.
Ka-ching?
Does Kelly — who was bailed out of jail this yr with a $100,000 mortgage from a feminine good friend he met on a cruise — manage to pay for to take care of his up-market condo?
“The guy is a legend,” stated Greenberg.
“I assure you every radio station in the country is not refusing to play his hit ‘I Believe I Can Fly,’” he added. “This guy is one of the most successful musicians of all time.” (Translation: Kelly continues to be incomes royalties.)
Is Kelly now fielding requests to sing since being positioned, at his request, within the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s basic jail inhabitants part?
“Don’t know and wouldn’t comment, but I’m sure his voice could serve the same use in prison to get things just as other people would trade cigarettes and other commissary items,” Greenberg stated.
Greenberg made an unsuccessful bid final week to spring his shopper from jail citing Kelly’s “stifling” confinement, “hand numbness,” “untreated hernia” — and the truth that solely “one of his two lady friends” is allowed on the jail’s “non-family” visiting checklist as soon as a month, which is switchable solely each 90 days.
“You have to understand Kelly and his two girlfriends consider themselves a family. … This is his family,” Greenberg stated.
“The jail’s rules are archaic when it fails to recognize the reality of today’s new living situations,” he stated.
“And I think it’s unconstitutional to deny a domestic partner the same visitation rights as a family member.”
Dem da dem dem?
Not so Foxxy?
Hmmmm.
Sneed hears rumbles Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Michael Cabonargi might have gotten the brief finish of the stick when he acquired the endorsement of the Cook County Democratic Party in his race for clerk of the Circuit Court.
Why?
• Translation: Sneed is instructed Dem get together bosses positioned Cabonargi on the SAME nominating petitions of embattled Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.
• Although Cabonargi shouldn’t be complaining, a Sneed supply additionally distributing Dem nominating petitions is instructed these specific dispersals are being greeted by an anti-Foxx impact due to the backlash over her dealing with of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s case.
“Some are flat-out refusing to sign, so it’s not making things easy for us,” he instructed Sneed.