CHICAGO _R. Kelly was ordered held on $1 million bond Saturday by a Cook County judge who called the allegations of sexual abuse against the singer "disturbing."
Prosecutors alleged that Kelly sexually abused one woman and three underage girls in separate attacks over a dozen years.
Prosecutors said Kelly's 24-year-old hairdresser came to braid his hair on Chicago's Near North Side in 2003, but instead he greeted her with his pants down and tried to force oral sex on her.
When she resisted, Kelly ejaculated on her and spit in her face several times, prosecutors alleged.
DNA recovered from the alleged victim's shirt matches Kelly, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors alleged that Kelly also sexually abused an underage girl who had sought his autograph while attending his 2008 trial on child pornography charges.
The girl had sex with Kelly multiple times between May 2009 and January 2010, according to prosecutors. He sometimes spit on her, slapped her in the face and choked her, they alleged.
She saved a shirt from one encounter and gave it to police in suburban Olympia Fields, where Kelly had a residence. Preliminary testing results show a DNA match to Kelly, prosecutors said.
Kelly met another victim as she celebrated her 16th birthday at a restaurant, Assistant State's Attorney Jennifer Gonzalez said in court. The singer's associate gave her Kelly's business card, but her mother intervened. However, the girl took the card from her mother's purse, contacted the singer and began having regular sexual contact with him, prosecutors alleged.
Prosecutors also have a videotape purportedly showing Kelly having sex with yet another girl, who was 14 at the time. Attorney Michael Avenatti has said he found the tape and turned it over to prosecutors last month.
In ordering that bond be set at $250,000 for each of the four separate indictments, Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. called the allegations against Kelly "disturbing" and barred him from contact with the alleged victims or any witnesses in the case.
He also banned the singer from contact with anyone younger than 18.
Kelly's attorney, Steven Greenberg, sought a lower bond, telling the judge that Kelly's finances were in disarray, his record label had dumped him and that he posed no threat to flee.
"He's lived here his whole life," Greenberg said before making a reference to Kelly's hit "I Believe I Can Fly."
"Contrary to the song, he doesn't like to fly," he said. "He doesn't travel unless he absolutely has to."
Kelly, 52, who has been dogged by accusations of sexually predatory behavior for years, was indicted Friday on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for alleged misconduct between 1998 and 2010.
He turned himself in at the Central District station Friday night.
During Saturday's 17-minute hearing, Kelly stood facing the judge in a black hoodie with his arms cuffed behind his back, frowning at times as he kept his eyes downcast.
He shook his head several times in disagreement as prosecutors detailed their evidence. At one point he leaned over to whisper something to his lawyer, who patted Kelly on the shoulder.
Several relatives of the alleged victims stood in the courtroom throughout the hearing.
Kelly's appearance at the Leighton Criminal Court Building came more than a decade after his acquittal on child pornography charges in a 2008 trial at the same courthouse.
