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R. Kelly’s life mirrors that of prosecutor who charged him
In R. Kelly’s fight for his freedom, he faces a straight-talking prosecutor whose life in some ways parallels his own.
Though the singer was dogged for decades by allegations he victimized women and girls, his fate only came into question after a documentary brought renewed public derision and charges were meted out by Kim Foxx, the state’s attorney whose own story shares some similarities with the defendant.
They are both products of 1970s Chicago childhoods with absentee fathers and protective mothers who would later die prematurely of cancer. Two black Americans who said they suffered poverty and sexual assaults in their early years, who escaped public housing complexes to climb to positions of power in their respective fields. Two people whose stories diverged and brought them to opposite sides of a legal fight that could forever define them.