Jessica Hopper interviewed music journalist Jim DeRogatis in The Village Voice about his 15 years’ worth of reporting on the accusations against the singer. Here are the most revealing quotes.
In an illuminating interview with freelance writer and Rookie music editor Jessica Hopper for The Village Voice, music journalist Jim DeRogatis discusses the many, many underreported stories of R. Kelly's history of sexual assault.
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DeRogatis, now a professor at Columbia College Chicago, was the first to report on the charges against R. Kelly, when he was the pop-music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times 15 years ago. As Hopper writes, DeRogatis "was anonymously delivered the first of two videos he would receive depicting the pop star engaging in sexual acts with underage girls." He's since been one of the only journalists, along with his Sun colleague Abdon Pallaschhom, to consistently report on the accusations of assault against Kelly over the last decade-plus.
DeRogatis on the initial reports of R. Kelly's sex with minors:
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