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Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly and its explosive reception, explained “

#MuteRKelly   # SurvivingRKelly #SexCult #RKelly has spent 25 years apparently made of Teflon. He’s been accused of some of the worst things imaginable and he has still managed to survive and thrive as one of the biggest stars in music. Now a Lifetime documentary series may have changed all that. Kelly withstood the revelation that he married 15-year-old Aaliyah in 1994, when he was 27. He withstood multiple lawsuits by young women alleging that he initiated sexual relationships with them when they were underage. He withstood his 2008 trial on charges of child pornography. He withstood reports that surfaced in 2017 that he was holding multiple young women against their will in what witnesses called an abusive and “cult-like” atmosphere. Mere months after those 2017 reports surfaced, the #MeToo movement burst into its most public phase and saw dozens of men pushed out of public life after they were accused of sexual harassment and assault. But R. Kelly continued on. Some of