In 2008 R. Kelly walked out of a Chicago courtroom a free man, acquitted of child pornography charges that had plagued him for six years (despite rumors of his sexual abuse of minors preceding those charges by decades).
Nearly 11 years later and facing a slew of new sexual abuse charges (click here to read more those), the very man who defended the singer in that case – high powered criminal defense attorney Ed Genson – has revealed at 77-years-old he is suffering from a late stage of bile duct cancer. Before succumbing to the terminal illness, the lawyer has opted to reveal a long-kept secret about his Grammy-winning client: he was guilty.
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