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"What kind of father, what kind of mother, would sell their daughter to a man?," Kelly said. "How come it was OK for me to see them until they were getting no money from me?"
It's not personal, it's just business.
The two women ‐ 21-year-old Azriel Clary and 23-year-old Joycelyn Savage ‐ are allegedly members of a "sex cult" where Kelly reportedly holds women against their will. Journalist Jim DeRogatis first wrote about the alleged cult in an article published by BuzzFeed News in 2017. He didn't identify Clary and Savage by name, but their parents later confirmed their identities.
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Kelly, who is 52, said he's simply dating both women, who live with him in his Chicago apartment. He told CBS News he was like the "other guys" who date "five or six women" at a time. He denied having sex with Clary when she was 17, but said "her parents wanted me to."