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He further insisted that Kelly is not a flight risk, nor does he pose a threat to the women accusing him of sexual assault. However, prosecutors now allege that the R&B singer is threatening and blackmailing the families of his alleged victims. In new court documents obtained by The Blast, prosecutors alleged that Kelly sent one of his alleged victim’s lawyer a typewritten letter where he threatened to “release compromising and potentially embarrassing photographs” if she brought a case against him.

As proof, prosecutors included photographs and screenshots of exchanged texts between Kelly and the unnamed individual as a rebuttal to the singer’s legal defense claims that his learning disabilities hindered his ability to write the letter.

“The defendant cannot credibly deny his role in intimidating witnesses by claiming, self-servingly, that he could not have written the letter due to his allegedly limited reading and writing skills where he provided the material used to make the threats and signed his name to the accompanying documents,” prosecutors statement read.

They also noted that Kelly “has a history of coercing women to write letters containing false and embarrassing allegations, so that the defendant could use those letters as blackmail.”

The Blast’s report further said that prosecutors spoke to multiple witnesses who “reported that the defendant directed them to write these embarrassing and false letters and the similarities among the accounts by multiple witnesses lends credence to their accounts.”

Read the report in full here.