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R. Kelly's High-Priced Trip to Cali
R. Kelly may appear to need a better travel agent since it's going to cost the embattled crooner $25,000 to travel to California at the end of April.
But that's not the price of a first class ticket--it's the amount Kelly, 36, had to post for an upcoming trip to Cali. The singer had to fork over 10 percent of a $250,000 bond to fly to California.
On Monday, Cook County Criminal Court Judge Vincent Gaughan granted a motion filed by the R&B singer's legal team letting him head West for a video shoot April 27 through May 6. (Young ladies of the Golden State, consider yourselves warned).
The judge then tacked on the high-priced travel fee because Kelly, awaiting trial on multiple counts of kiddie porn, violated his probation in February when he failed to check in with authorities during a trip to Florida.
So far, freedom's been an expensive proposition for the singer. The $25,000 is on top of the $75,000 he initially posted to gain his freedom last year after being rung up on the child-porn charges.
Now, Kelly will have to make daily long-distance calls to his probation officer during the business trip. Kelly's due in Cali to shoot footage for "Snake," a track off his album Chocolate Factory.
The oft-arrested Grammy winner hoped to make other travel plans recently when he announced his ambition to visit U.S. troops and serenade the service people with his rereleased song "A Soldier's Heart." The tune, labeled a spin job in the press, is being touted by his reps as "a tribute to the courageous soldiers and military men and women who are risking their lives to preserve freedom."
Originally recorded and released in 2002 as a tribute to U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, Kelly's patriotic anthem has been repurposed for the current conflict in Iraq. He'll be releasing a retail single of the tune April 23 with all proceeds going to military families through his I Believe I Can Fly charitable foundation.
The timing of the charitable effort is fortuitous for Kelly, who faces 21 counts of child pornography in Illinois and 12 counts of possessing kiddie-porn in Florida. The camera-ready crooner, who allegedy can't resist documenting his sexual conquests, has been on a mission to repair his overexposed image since he was arrested in June 2002 after a graphic videotape surfaced purportedly showing the singer having sex with a teen girl.
Kelly's efforts appear to be paying off. Despite his numerous legal woes, he continues to garner amazing musical support. His latest (non-tribute, non-charity) album, Chocolate Factory, debuted at number one on Billboard's pop album chart when it was released in February. So far, it has sold 1.2 million copies in the U.S. and remains a Top 10 fixture.
Kelly may not be as well received when he heads back to court May 29--the singer will appear for a status hearing at which time prosecutors may be filing a motion to introduce evidence of other alleged crimes at Kelly's upcoming trial.
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