Soulless The Case Against R Ke

DeRogatis, Jim

ISBN 10: 141974304X / ISBN 13: 9781419743047

Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Soulless The Case Against R Ke
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 141974304X
• ISBN 13: 9781419743047
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

“An astonishing document of journalistic doggedness, and one man’s decades-long pursuit of justice and truth” (Boston Globe opinion columnist Renee Graham), Soulless is the essential account of R. Kelly’s actions and their consequences, a reckoning two decades in the making.

In November 2000, Chicago journalist and music critic Jim DeRogatis received an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with “young girls.” Weeks later, DeRogatis broke the shocking story, publishing allegations that the R&B superstar and local hero had groomed girls, sexually abused them, and paid them off. DeRogatis thought his work would have an impact. Instead, Kelly’s career flourished.

No one seemed to care: not the music industry, not the culture at large, not the parents of numerous other young girls. But for more than 18 years, DeRogatis stayed on the story. He was the one who was given the disturbing videotape that led to Kelly’s 2008 child pornography trial, the one whose window was shot out, and the one whom women trusted to tell their stories—of a meeting with the superstar at a classroom, a mall, a concert, or a McDonald’s that forever warped the course of their lives.

Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly is DeRogatis’s masterpiece, a work of tenacious journalism and powerful cultural criticism. It tells the story of Kelly’s career, DeRogatis’s investigations, and the world in which the two crossed paths, and brings the story up to Kelly’s criminal reckoning. Decades in the making, this is an outrageous, darkly riveting account of the life and actions of R. Kelly, and their horrible impact on dozens of girls, by the only person to tell it.

About the Author

Jim DeRogatis is an associate professor of instruction at Columbia College Chicago and the host, with Greg Kot, of the nationally syndicated public radio show Sound Opinions. The author of Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs and other books, he spent 15 years as the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times. He lives in Chicago.