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Poor R. Kelly.

The guy just wants to move on with life.

If only that pesky child porno case would go away.

The filthy human being, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is being sued by a private investigator who claims the star stiffed him on a $300,000 bill.

According to a lawsuit filed last week in Missouri federal court, Charles Freeman claims he was hired in the midst of Kelly's recent trial to "obtain and/or recover certain tapes that were said to incriminate" R. Kelly.

One of presumably many R. Kelly mug shots.

Kelly was pretty miraculously found not guilty on all counts, despite being charged with 21 counts of having sexual intercourse with a minor (Lisa Van Allen).

Freeman said he did the job (which was somehow legal, apparently, if he's admitting to it) but never got paid. He's suing for damages, interest and costs.

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Welcome, celebrity gossip fans, to The Hollywood Gossip Caption Contest, a Friday tradition, now in its 63rd week. Who won this week's Caption Contest?

A picture of R&B crooner / part-time bizarre sex act star R. Kelly is destined to make it challenging to choose a winner. But we picked kris. Congratulations!

5... 5 dollar... 5 dollar FOOT LONG!!

With Miley Cyrus and Jamie Lynn Spears baby news dominating the celebrity gossip world, our staff has learned much from its favorite stars.

Below, Miley, Jamie Lynn, Charlie Sheen, R. Kelly and other celebrities aim to inspire celebrity news readers in the form of motivational posters! You know, the ones promoting "teamwork" or telling you to "hang in there" in offices or dorm rooms?

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According to recently unsealed documents, Lisa Van Allen - the woman who said she had sex with R. Kelly and the alleged victim in the case that just exonerated the singer - said one R. Kelly's henchmen threatened to kill her.

As reported by TMZ, Van Allen claimed in pretrial papers that an "employee" of R. Kelly said she should have been knocked off for snitching on the musician.

Lisa Van Allen says she's lucky to be alive.

Van Allen also revealed that she was paid $100,000 for a sex tape with her and another allegedly underage girl by an associate of R. Kelly. We'll have more on this disturbing story as it develops.

A jury has acquitted R. Kelly on all 14 counts of child pornography.

The lame singer was first charged six years ago after a kinky sex tape surfaced that allegedly featuring him having sex with - and urinating on - some girl who was only 13 years old at the time.

R. Kelly had long denied being on the video tape; even the alleged victim said it wasn't her during the trial.

R. Kelly may have gross sex tape preferences. But they don't make him a pedophile, a jury of his peers has just concluded.

The prosecution has rested in the R. Kelly sex tape trial, but not before it called Lisa Van Allen to the stand.

The former threesome partner of R. Kelly and the alleged victim in this case - who prosecutors say was underage at the time of intercourse with the singer - grew emotional yesterday as she recounted several sexual encounters with the R&B superstar and the anonymous other woman, many of which she said were videotaped.

Van Allen also told jurors (as part of more than three hours of graphic and dramatic testimony) that R. Kelly offered her $250,000 to recover a tape of one of the trysts.

R. Kelly: We believe he can fly, right into jail.

Lisa Van Allen added that she first had sex with the R&B superstar and the alleged victim in 1998. That would have made R. Kelly around 30 years old at the time, while Van Allen was about 18 and the alleged victim would have been 14. Gross stuff, indeed.

In a final, disturbing bit of testimony, Van Allen said that R. Kelly carried a duffel bag containing his homemade sex tapes everywhere he went.

"Wherever he was at, the bag would follow him," she said.

A Toastee Toof sex tape landed this Q-list celebrity a new reality show.

Ditto for the Kim Kardashian sex tape.

But we can only hope confirmation of a R. Kelly sex tape will land this pedophilic singer in jail for a long time. Following the testimony of a recent employee yesterday, this appears closer than ever.

Lindsey Perryman, who worked as a personal assistant to R. Kelly and his family on and off for seven years, was among the latest witnesses to identify the musician and the alleged victim as the ones on the graphic 27-minute videotape.

"I didn't want to think it was them," Perryman said, adding that she never saw anything that might make her think the Grammy-winning singer might be involved in anything untoward, even after he was indicted in 2002.

If the R. Kelly sex tape is proven to be legitimate, the singer will have a reaction similar to this.

"He treated the people that worked with him extremely well," Perryman added. "There was never any reason to walk away and say I would call the police."

Tell that to the minor R. Kelly is accused of having sex with and urinating on.

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The Associated Press reports that a Chicago judge is allowing the public and media to view the videotape that prosecutors say shows R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl.

Judge Vincent Gaughan said Thursday that he saw no overarching interest in banning the tape, which law enforcement officials allege proves their case against the singer, from public view.

"This is the whole crux and linchpin of the case. If there was no tape, we wouldn't have a case," Gaughan said.

Kelly has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography. Prosecutors claim the tape was made shot between January 1998 and October 2000, when the girl may have been as young as 13.

Both the defense and prosecution had asked Gaughan to limit video viewing to only jurors, the lawyers and the judge himself. The video, they say, is lewd enough to seriously embarrass the girl, now 21. Prosecutors say they do not plan to call the girl as a witness. A trial date has not been set.

Allegations of Kelly's sexual activity with underage girls go as far back as 1991, when several claimed to have had sex with him. However, none of the those reports reached the publicity of the 2002 release of this tape, in which Kelly urinates on the girl and allegedly commits numerous other sexual acts. That's real classy, R. Enjoy prison.