The Latest Breaking News from R Kelly

R. Kelly’s former business manager asked a federal judge to award him $850,000 in attorneys fees after a jury acquitted him during the same trial in Chicago at which the R&B singer was convicted of child pornography charges

Derrel McDavid’s defense team aggressively challenged the feds’ case during the trial, and McDavid spent more than two days on the witness stand. In a motion Monday, his defense attorney also seemed to take some credit for helping Kelly avoid conviction on additional charges.

R. Kelly’s fans have put nearly $28,000 into the disgraced R&B singer’s prison commissary account, his lawyers revealed at a hearing in federal court Wednesday.

The R&B star is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 23.

For the second time in less than a year, Chicago-born R&B singer R. Kelly finds himself convicted of serious federal child-sex crimes and staring at a lengthy prison term.

SNEED: The decision is likely between the Windy City and the Big Apple, with crime and fundraising a factor for both

And maybe his conviction and sentencing might also prompt other sexual abusers to get the psychiatric help they need before it’s too late.

Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer’s trial in Chicago, but they lost on the headline charge — that Kelly obstructed justice by rigging his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted him

The disgraced R&B superstar was found guilty of abusing three girls in federal court in Chicago Wednesday.