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R. Kelly is facing prostitution charges by prosecutors in Minnesota, who allege he solicited a teenager who asked him for an autograph in 2001.
According to county attorney Mike Freeman, Kelly invited the 17-year-old to his hotel room and offered her $200 (£164) to undress and dance with him.
After money was exchanged they had sexual contact but not intercourse, Freeman claimed.
Kelly's lawyer Steve Greenberg said the charges were "beyond absurd".
His colleague Doug Anton said it was not clear that R. Kelly had ever met his alleged victim and that the charges might be a case of "revisionist history".
The R&B singer is now facing criminal proceedings in three US states.
The 52-year-old is currently being held without bail awaiting trial on charges of sexual assault, child pornography and obstruction of justice in Chicago and New York.
He has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
The singer, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, has been dogged by allegations of sexual abuse for years.
He previously faced trial on child pornography charges in 2008, but was acquitted when his alleged victim and her parents refused to testify.
Call for witnesses
Since the broadcast of the six-part documentary Surviving R. Kelly in January, several accusers have come forward to press charges.
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx made a public call for witnesses after watching the series, setting up a tip line in Kelly's home state of Illinois.
One of the people who called the number was the woman who claims she was assaulted by Kelly in Minnesota 18 years ago.
R. Kelly's lawyers have characterised his accusers as "disgruntled groupies" and criticised Ms Foxx's methods.
"When a top law-enforcement figure makes a public cry for the world to come and be famous by telling their sordid story, true or not, it inherently invites people to create revisionist history and put a different label on simple fan-rock star encounters," said Doug Anton.
At Monday's news conference in Minneapolis, prosecutor Mike Freeman dismissed these claims.
"Frankly, Minnesota victims deserve their day in court, and that's one of the reasons we're here," he said.
From left, Jason Priestley, Brian Austin Green, Gabrielle Carteris, Ian Ziering, Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling in “BH90210.”
As midlife crises go, you could do a lot worse than Fox’s “BH90210,” a clever and intentionally cheesy reunion of the original cast of the 1990s high school drama “Beverly Hills, 90210.” They’ve engineered it in a way that lessens the burden of full commitment — theirs or ours.
Managing to be both light and cynical, “BH90210” (a six-episode miniseries, premiering Wednesday) brings back Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling, Shannen Doherty, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green, Jason Priestley and Ian Ziering (everyone but Luke Perry, who died five months ago) to play exaggerated versions of themselves — which is to say, actors who happened to hit it big on an enjoyably mediocre TV series three decades ago and have had to cope with that fact ever since.
The show opens on the slightly pathetic scene of a “90210” fan convention in Las Vegas, where six of the actors have been lured to appear on a panel Q&A, each quietly dealing with a fresh personal setback: Jennie is working on her third divorce; Tori, once a reality-show queen, has run out of reality that’s worth showing; Jason just lost a gig directing a superhero TV show because he punched its mouthy young star; Brian is a slightly bored stay-at-home dad married to a superstar pop singer; Gabrielle, head of the actors union, just became a grandmother but is rather belatedly realizing she might be a lesbian; Ian and his trophy wife are in a constant state of entrepreneurial self-promotion, hawking a workout guide with little success.
Shannen, still the cast member no one else likes, beams into the convention hall Q&A via an Instagram stream from India, where she is selflessly rescuing baby Bengal tigers and generally saving the planet. She gets a standing ovation from the audience; her former co-stars can only roll their eyes.
None of the above tongue-in-cheekiness is exactly true, but it does give the actors — who now range in age from 46 to 58 — a playful chance to riff on their celebrity personas and post-“90210” epilogues.
The first episode, in fact, verges on one of the smartest portrayals of midlife ennui we’re likely to see this year, save for FX’s “Better Things” and the belatedly satisfying final season of HBO’s “Divorce.” Even if none of the “90210” actors spend their nights on a park bench (fictionally or otherwise), a viewer can at least take a moment to appreciate that their career trajectories aren’t quite what they once imagined.
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Jennie Garth, left, and Tori Spelling play exaggerated versions of their real-life selves.
“How the hell did we end up here?” Jennie asks Jason, just before they sneak off together for some throwback nookie. “Did you ever wonder what our lives would be like if we hadn’t done that show?”
“Every single day,” he sighs.
Perry’s death, at 52, is somewhat nominally acknowledged — a group toast here, a heavy sigh there — but it’s a chill wind that nevertheless blows across the occasion. “We’re not all going to be here forever,” a drunk Tori declares. “But we made something that will be.”
“BH90210” easily locates a tone of self-mockery; if it could somehow remain in the slightly dour, don’t-remind-me mood of this first episode, it might get to a deeper, more profound place than it ever intended: a meta-commentary on fame, age and nostalgia. Instead, shenanigans break out, the dialogue heads for the ham (to go with the cheese), and the gang winds up spending a night in jail.
The ensuing media attention gives Tori the bright idea to approach Fox with a can’t-miss pitch for a reboot of “Beverly Hills, 90210”; the network enthusiastically agrees, if and only if the rest of the cast — including the elusive Shannen — will come aboard. The road back to the Peach Pit, it turns out, is a long one.
Enlisting a dubious Jennie to her cause, Tori discovers that her co-stars have their own demands — more creative than financial. They each want a chance to color outside the lines, reshaping the tropes that once defined their characters and pigeonholed the actors’ careers. (Except in the case of “Sharknado” star Ziering, who merely wants opportunities for product placement.) The conceit of “BH90210,” then, is to keep viewers guessing whether this project will come together or not.
“What is it that one guy said, ‘You can’t go home again?’ ” Jennie asks Tori.
“What guy?” Tori asks.
“I don’t know,” Jennie says. “I only went to a fake high school.”
BH90210 (one hour) premieres Wednesday at 9 p.m. on Fox.
R. Kelly, the 52-year-old singer, has been charged with prostitution and solicitation in Minnesota after allegedly inviting a 17-year-old girl to his hotel room and paying her $200 to dance naked with him in 2001. Each felony charge is punishable by up to five years in prison.
A Minnesota prosecutor has charged R. Kelly with prostitution and solicitation charges for a 2001 allegation that he invited a 17-year-old girl to his hotel and paid her $200 to dance naked with him.
On Monday, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is accused of soliciting the girl after meeting her before a concert in Minneapolis.
Freeman said the girl was trying to get an autograph from Kelly, and that the R&B performer gave her his signature and a phone number. When the girl called the number, she was invited to Kelly's hotel. There she was offered $200 to take off her clothes and dance, Freeman said. He said Kelly took his clothes off and they danced together.
A criminal complaint said the girl said Kelly lay on his bed and the girl climbed on top of him "body to body."
"According to Victim, the defendant was rubbing her body" and fondling himself, according to the complaint. "Victim stated that the defendant touched all over her body."
The complaint said the girl attended Kelly's concert "as a guest who did not have to pay," and told her brother what had happened in Kelly's hotel room.
According to Variety, Freeman said that the victim was under 18 but at least 16 years old at the time and the incident involved “dancing and sexual contact.” He added that there was no sexual intercourse between Kelly and the victim.
The charges are felonies, each punishable by up to five years in prison. Freeman said his office investigated after getting a tip from a Chicago tip line.
"We felt we had more than enough to charge based on her testimony and corroboration from her brother," Freeman -- who did not provide a name for the alleged victim in Minneapolis -- said.
In a statement to Fox News on Monday, Kelly's attorney Steve Greenberg, said: "That case is a pure publicity grab by the prosecutor." Greenberg also tweeted: "Give me a break. This is beyond absurd."
Gloria Allred, the attorney for several of Kelly's accusers, said she also represents the newest woman to come forward. She commended the woman "for the courage she displayed in speaking to law enforcement.
"As this new case demonstrates, it is not too late for there to be justice for even more victims of R. Kelly," Allred -- who added she will not name the woman -- said in a statement.
Allred said her client is not a prostitute. She told a news conference in Los Angeles on Monday that she was told the prostitution statute was the only one available to Minnesota authorities to charge Kelly in this case.
The charges are the latest legal problem for the 52-year-old singer, who remains jailed in New York after pleading not guilty last week in federal court to charges that he sexually abused women and girls who attended his concerts there. He is accused of using his fame to recruit young women and girls into illegal sexual activity.
Kelly is also charged separately in Chicago with engaging in child pornography.
Fox News' Julius Young and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The two wore special dresses to a Peach Pit pop-up with colorful graffiti of their characters names to mark the return of the popular '90s series.
A six-episode reboot called "BH90210" will premiere on Fox on August 7.
"MyBFF @jenniegarth and I were inspired to pay homage to our OG characters with a modern pop in iconic #bh90210 colors." Spelling posted to Instagram. "Thx to @mandiline and @adeel_k for helping us execute our vision!"
The dresses were made by costume designer Mandi Line, who revealed they were a last-minute creation.
"These dresses and styling were down to the wire," she wrote on Instagram.
Along with Spelling and Garth, cast members Shannen Doherty, Brian Austin Green, Jason Priestley, Ian Ziering and Gabrielle Carteris are also set to return.
Denise Richards recently announced she'll also be on the show
In November Spelling and Garth will hit 13 cities with an interactive, live talk called "Jennie Garth & Tori Spelling Live."
After a long week of waiting, it’s finally here — the finale of HBO’s hit drama series, Euphoria. Will Nate be brought to justice? Will Fez go to jail? Here’s our recap of Euphoria’s eighth episode, entitled “And Salt the Earth Behind You.”
Barbie Ferreira, Zendaya, and Sydney Sweeney of ‘Euphoria’ | Getty Images/Frazer Harrison
Rue, Jules, and the rest of East Highland go to Winter formal
They imagined formal would be magical. Cassie’s mom always tells her about how wonderful her high school years are. This high school, however, has a pretty big secret worming its way into Jules, Fez, and Rue’s lives.
At the dance, the girls try to have a good time, talking about dreaming and high school. A text from Anna interrupts Jules and she runs to the bathroom to take a picture of herself. Then, Nate walks by with another girl. Jealousy and anger boiling up in Maddy. Naturally, she grabs another guy and starts dancing away from Nate. Viewers then see a flashback of Maddy and Nate together, and Nate is having a hard time having sex with her. Maddy says she knows Nate is gay and that’s alright, but again, he grabs her and tells her otherwise. While Nate is in the shower, Maddy finds the DVD of Cal in one of Nate’s books. She takes it and leaves.
Kat and Maddy are still half-talking, as a result of Maddy calling Kat a few choice words during the last episode. So, whenKat finally sees Ethan at the formal, she walks up to him and apologizes for how she’s acted. She says she was hurt on the night of the carnival. Ethan reassures Kat that he’s liked her since the day he sat down next to her and in their unstable high school romance, he’d try his best to make sure she wouldn’t get hurt. They (finally) kiss.
Cal, Rue, and Maddy confront Nate during ‘Euphoria’
Rue finds Jules in the bathroom, and after an awkward conversation about kissing, Jules grabs Rue and the two of them to go dance. When Nate steps off the dance floor for a minute, Rue follows him, ready to start a brawl. The scene cuts to Cassie in the doctor‘s office. Her mom and sister are both there to support her, but still, Cassie looks almost numb as she’s answering questions. After the procedure is over, Cassie tells her mother that she feels “better” about it now.
The story shifts to Nate playing, what could be, the last football game in his high school career. He is performing well, but his teammates are struggling to catch what he’s throwing. As a result, Nate runs into the end-zone and wins the game. During a conversation with his dad later, Cal explains that winning the game means nothing if Nate loses control of his team. In the long run, his father says, if he doesn’t lead, he’ll lose. Nate gets angry and starts physically fighting his father. Cal wins, and viewers see that toxic masculinity exploding out of Nate. He screams, probably because he’s mad at himself, but probably because he’s mad about the wrong things.
Back at the dance, Rue saunters up to Nate and says that she knows he called the cops on Fez. She warns him that if he keeps messing with Fez and Jules she will go to the police, because what does she have to lose? Nate brushes it off and tries to make Rue lose her focus, saying that Jules is going places and in ten years, won’t even remember her. Rue, obviously a little shaken by this news, asks Jules to run away with her. Jules says yes.
HBO’s “Euphoria” | Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO
The finale of ‘Euphoria’ is a little confusing
Meanwhile, with Fez, who doesn’t have money to pay his drug dealer back, (thanks for calling the police, Nate,) he goes to a doctor’s house in a desperate search to repay his debt to Mouse. He tries to rob the man without hurting him, but the doctor reaches for a gun and tries to shoot Fez. We don’t see what happens amidst the struggle, but Fez eventually gets the bloodstained money, which doesn’t make Mouse happy. Does Mouse kill Fez? Does he stop dealing him drugs? Viewers have to wait until next season to find out.
Back with the “happy” couple, Rue and Jules buy their train tickets, and Rue is clearly having second thoughts. She asks Jules, again, if this is a bad idea and Jules assures her it’s a great idea. Still, Rue hesitates to step on the train. She tells Jules that her family will be worried about her, that her mom and Gia will think she went missing. Jules says she loves Rue and kisses her hand, begging her to come into the city. Viewers hear the voice of Rue’s mother as we watch the train pull away from Rue: “there will be moments of relief in her and in you. Moments that feel so normal and calm and rewarding that you’ll find yourself praying they last forever.”
After leaving Jules at the train station, Rue walks back to her house, sobbing. We see a little bit about her past and learn that the hoodie she always wears was actually her father’s. Then, Rue relapses. What comes next is still to be determined on the next season of Euphoria.
Agent Luke Hobbs has a new mission to save the world from a virus that has a 100 percent success rate. His only problem? His partner, villain-turned-slightly-good-guy Deckard Shaw. The first spinoff of the Fast & Furious franchise had some big shoes to fill—and some big men with which to fill them. So how did it work out? Below, The Ringer’s resident Fast heads (and a newbie) share their thoughts on Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
1. What is your tweet-length review of Hobbs & Shaw?
Miles Surrey: Earth, 2040. Florida has been completely swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean. California is in a decades-long drought. The Fast & Furious franchise has released Hobbs & Shaw 5, its 25th movie, to a gross of over $800 million at the box office. I have proposed to—and been summarily rejected by—Vanessa Kirby for the eighth time. We can still smell what the Rock is cooking.
John Gonzalez: Finally, the Fast & Furious–Deadpool extended universe we’ve always wanted.
Mose Bergmann: This movie begins with a Logic song playing under the title card. It gets marginally better.
2. What was the best moment of the movie?
Gonzalez: The Rock curled an attack helicopter with one arm. In retrospect, flexing his cast off was light work. It should also be noted that Hobbs’s record is now 2-0 when fighting supervillains in heavily armed choppers.
Actually, never mind: Mike Oxmaul.
Bergmann: The three seconds when Vanessa Kirby is in disguise as an insurance broker with a pixie cut and gives a customs agent a pleasant “Hello!”
Halliwell: Is it weird that I’m considering the scenes with Ryan Reynolds and Rob Delaney at the beginning? This is maybe the only time the Ryan Reynolds shtick has ever worked for me. I get it now.
Surrey: The London chase gave us everything: fast cars, a furious Idris Elba, a motorbike he’s apparently mind-melded with, some epic slo-mo shots, and Hobbs’s picking an assailant off a moving bike and ramming him into a wall with one arm. That is what we call cinema.
Gruttadaro: I liked when the Rock grabbed that guy off of a motorcycle while in a moving vehicle and then just held him until driving him into a stone column. I also enjoyed all of the slo-mo shots of Hobbs and Shaw getting devastating CTE.
3. What was your least favorite part of the film?
Gonzalez: N/A. I move that this question is stricken from the record on account of it being dumb.
Surrey: It is genuinely blasphemous how quickly the franchise has moved past Han’s death. One throwaway line from Deckard Shaw about making “mistakes” is not a fair penance for killing a beloved character!
Halliwell: I couldn’t get over the silliness of letting Hattie Shaw walk around in the middle of a firefight as they sucked the HUMANITY-KILLING VIRUS out of her body. Stick her in the back of the house with Mama Hobbs for the half-hour it will take to save the world! Come on!
Bergmann: Idris Elba done SO dirty! Brixton was one of the most boring villains I’ve seen in a long time, a problem made much worse when the actor playing him is IDRIS FREAKING ELBA. When someone asks who he is, his response is literally to point at himself and say, “Bad guy.” Things really don’t get any deeper than that. He holsters his gun on his chest, which is cool I guess, and has a remote motorcycle pal that is basically a Transformer, but he falls pretty flat.
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Gruttadaro: This may sound dramatic, but as a passionate devotee to this series, Ryan Reynolds’s and Kevin Hart’s scenes were deeply offensive to me. First of all, replace those two actors with any faceless extra and the movie wouldn’t lose a thing—hell, you could just cut Hart’s scenes and keep the plot in tact. But second of all, the Fast & Furious franchise isn’t a franchise with comedy bits—the funny parts of the movies come from character moments (like Roman’s fear before they skydived with cars in 7), the straight-faced display of ridiculous masculinity (like Dom and Hobbs’s coming so close to each other in a standoff that it seemed like they might kiss in 6), and unbelievable stunts and the gang’s ability to walk away from them without a scratch on their bodies (like Brian and Dom’s jumping off a cliff in 5, or like Brian and Dom’s driving a car through three skyscrapers in 5). The Fast franchise doesn’t need to go out of its way to be funny—and no two actors go out of their way to be funny more than Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Hart.
4. Pick one: Hobbs or Shaw?
Gruttadaro: Shaw, merely because his insults were just a tad less focused on dick size.
Surrey: Shaw. As in: Hattie Shaw.
Halliwell: Hobbs. People like him!
Gonzalez: Shaw. As daily routines go: pub > gym.
Bergmann: Shaw. I’m a Statham Stan-tham, and considering that Shaw’s family now officially includes Vanessa Kirby—who I would like to kindly ask to please step on me—and Dame Helen Mirren, it’s not much of an argument. (Although I did really appreciate Cliff Curtis in this movie; shout-out Cliff Curtis.)
5. What are your thoughts on Brixton’s philosophy regarding human evolution?
Halliwell: Idris Elba is already the peak of human evolution, so I buy everything that he is selling.
Surrey: It’s like a bad Black Mirror spec script. However, if every “enhanced” human gets their hands on one of those special motorcycles … link me to the Eteon careers homepage.
Gruttadaro: “Genocide, shmenocide” is a wild thing to say, bro.
Gonzalez: After hearing Andrew Yang tell everyone to move to higher ground, I wonder if they share a speechwriter.
Bergmann: Well, to be frank, I disagree with them, but his argument of “genocide, shmenocide?” really makes you think.
6. Write a headline that would run after Hobbs and Shaw’s destructive, bus-dismantling chase through London?
Bergmann: A Mess of Cheeky Wankers Cause Rambunctious Ruckus Outside of Nando’s
Gruttadaro: As Man Crashes Through Bus, Police Somehow Literally Nowhere to Be Found
Surrey: Philosophical Crash Course: What the Writings of Thomas Hobbes and George Bernard Shaw Can Tell Us About Hobbs and Shaw’s Agenda of Terror—The New Republic.
7. Hattie Shaw and Luke Hobbs: Will it last?
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Halliwell: Absolutely not! Luke will return to his daughter and his dumbbells, and Hattie will come to her senses and go show Eiza González which Shaw she really belongs with.
Gruttadaro: That kiss was a “I might be dead in a couple of hours so I better kiss someone one more time” kiss, not an “I legitimately like you” kiss. Hattie Shaw’s not making any long-distance calls to Samoa.
Surrey: For Hattie’s sake, I hope not. For all the very deserving talk about the franchise’s Han erasure, we still have no idea who the mother of Hobbs’s daughter is. Did Mrs. Hobbs die? Are they divorced? Just putting it out there: Could Hobbs have killed his wife, making him the Cliff Booth of the Fast & Furious universe? Hattie is better off [clears throat] not riding that mountain, just to be safe.
Gonzalez: If they can’t make it work after Hobbs had a long conversation—with her brother, while she was asleep—about having carnal knowledge of her in the crudest possible fashion, who among us could possibly find love?
8. Who wielded a flamethrower better: Rick Dalton from Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood or the Russian scientist in Hobbs & Shaw?
Halliwell: Flamethrowers! So in right now! I look forward to the think pieces about “flamethrower fatigue” later this year. (Rick did it better, but it’s close.)
Gonzalez: Rick Dalton. Both times. The one with the eyepatch was especially impressive. Operating a fire machine with limited vision comes with a high degree of difficulty.
Gruttadaro: Slight edge to Rick for a certain confidence he had in the act. (While we’re here, though, the Russian scientist’s getting his neck snapped with ease by Brixton is one of the funniest parts of the movie.)
Bergmann: On paper, “Eddie Marsan with a flamethrower” beats “Leonardo DiCaprio with a flamethrower” every single time, BUT—I have to give it to Leo’s flamethrower moment, which is one of the best, most satisfying setups and punch lines I’ve seen in a long time.
Surrey: Russian scientist guy has my respect, but Rick Dalton’s giving us Chekhov’s flamethrower is among my most cherished, non–Keanu Reeves moviegoing experiences of the year.
9. Who is the mysterious character in charge of the evil tech corporation Eteon?
Gruttadaro: It’s probably Cipher (Charlize Theron), who we last saw in F8 jumping out of an airplane. But for the sake of peak ridiculousness, I would love for it to be something absurd, like Hobbs’s dad, or an evil bionic Han.
Bergmann: The easy answer is Ryan Reynolds’s new Deadpool-y character, because it sounded just like him in the hallway scene when he was addressing Brixton. But my guess is a resurrected Han, trying to exact his revenge on Shaw, who—let’s not forget—murdered him in cold blood.
Halliwell: I have never seen a Fast & Furious movie before this, but I know Charlize Theron has been in at least one, so obviously I want it to be her.
Gonzalez: Evil Han. Next up, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Presents: Han’s Revenge.
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