ST LOUIS (LALATE) – R Kelly made history today with the most Soul Train Awards nominations ever. R Kelly inked an outstanding twenty-one nominations this year. He is followed by Usher who picked up five as well. The show which airs November 25 on BET will feature also nominations for Whitney Houston for best gospel inspire performance and for Amy Winehouse for best international performance.

Kelly is nominated for the Ashford & Simpson songwriter’s award and album of the year while New Edition will get a lifetime achievement award. The show won’t be broadcasted live. It will be taped on November 8 inside Planet Hollywood and then aired later that month. Cedric the Entertainer will host.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – The R Kelly mansion (photos below) is heading to foreclosure. R Kelly’s house might have mortgage problems but the songwriter doesn’t have money troubles, says his rep to news today. When news of the foreclosure hit yesterday in Crain’s Chicago Business report, the singer’s spokesman, Allan Mayer refused comment. But Mayer said that his client doesn’t have money troubles.

The R Kelly mansion is located on Maros Lane in Olympia Fields, reports a J. P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A. foreclosure lawsuit. R Kelly hasn’t made payments on the mansion’s mortgage since June of last year claims the complaint. This is the second lawsuit against the singer revealed this month. In June he was sued by his former manager.

The mansion boosts nearly twelve thousand square feet, is only about a ten years old, sits on nearly four acres, and was appraised a $5.2 million in 2009. Now its value has fallen to $3.8 million; the mansion is worth less than the debt against it. R Kelly took a loan for the house in 1999 for $3.5 million and has $2.9 million in principal still owed.

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The mansion features six bathrooms, seven baths, and a four car garage. The J. P. Morgan Chase Bank suit seeks $2.9 million.
His former management firm Prospect Park LLC is also suing him for $1 million in Los Angeles.

Below is local news video of the foreclosure.

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VIDEO! Watch the video / listen to the audio of I Look to You from Whitney Houston and R Kelly. I Look to You by Whitney Houston and R Kelly IS confirmed for her next album LALATE can tell you today.

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“I Look To You” is done by Whitney Houston and R Kelly and WILL appear on her 2009 comeback album confirms Clive Davis this weekend to MTV NEWS. This is exciting, exciting news for all us die hard Whitney Houston fans!!! Says Clive to MTV:

“You wait for the great songs to be written. The great hits Whitney has given to the public for so many years — you keep encouraging and setting the bar. R. Kelly and Whitney just went into the studio with a great song called ‘I Look to You.’

“The same way her debut album took a while to put together, you just don’t do it by going into a computer. You wait for the material to justify a new album.Pretty much, it’s come in.”

The above video features Kelly singing a section of the song, not Whitney. The lyrics reportedly include the following:

Lyrics:

As I lay me down
Heaven hear me now
I’m lost without a cause
After giving it my all

winter’s storm has come and darkened my sun
After all that we’ve been through
Who on earth can I turn to

I look to you
I look to you

After all my strength is gone
In you I can move on

I look to you
I look to you

And when melodies are gone
In you I hear a song

I look to you

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PHOTOS! Here are pictures of Andrea Lee Kelly. Andrea Lee Kelly is now the ex-wife of R Kelly.

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Andrea Lee Kelly and R Kelly were married for 11 years. Now the two have finalized their divorce according to their reps.

R is 42, Andrea Lee is 35.

Together Andrea and R will share joint custody of their three children.

The couple was married in 1996. Andrea was a former back up singer. Together the couple had two daughters Jaya and Joann and one son Robert Jr.

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NEW MUSIC! “Out of this Club”, the new single from the Pussycat Dolls and R Kelly, hit the net today.

Ironically, “Out of this Club”, is reportedly off Doll Domination, the Pussycat Dolls’ second album dropping September 16. But it does not appear in the track listing currently circulating. 

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