Joycelyn Savage, R. Kelly’s longtime live-in girlfriend and now alleged fiancé, will be releasing an all-encompassing book about her relationship with the troubled R&B star.
In an email to The Post, Savage, 26, confirmed that the book will be titled “Love and Joy of Robert” and “should be published Saturday.”
“All I can say is it’s about Robert, the beginning of my life in Robert’s shadow, where things started to pick up and where they are currently going,” she wrote of the book’s contents.
Savage would neither confirm nor deny The Post that she and Kelly – whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly – are engaged.
“Everything will be answered in my book,” she said.
Savage did not disclose whether the book would be self-published or through an established publisher, or where the volume would be available.
In documents obtained by The Post in July, Savage wrote a letter to a federal judge, calling herself Kelly’s fiancée and asking him to get a lenient sentence for his decades-long sexual abuse of women and underage girls and boys. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in the sex trafficking case.
“I am writing this letter in support of Robert prior to his sentencing so that I can explain to the court that I am not the victim the government has portrayed me as.”
She continued to call him an “all-round incredible person” and “not the monster the government has described him.
“Robert and I are deeply in love and it breaks my heart that the government has created a story that I am a victim,” Savage continued. “I am a grown woman and can speak for myself, which is why I wanted to deliver this letter to the court.
“He is a wonderful man, with a big heart and deserves to be home with his loved ones who are ready to support him,” she concluded.
Savage would be Kelly’s third marriage. In 1994, he secretly married a then 15-year-old Aaliyah, who later died in a plane crash in 2001. Their illegal marriage was annulled. He was later married to choreographer Andrea Kelly from 1996 to 2009 and the couple had three children.
Savage’s parents, Jonjelyn and Timothy, have publicly advocated for their daughter to leave Kelly. They were interviewed extensively in 2020 in the six-part tell-all series “Surviving R. Kelly: Part II: The Reckoning”.
In 2019, Savage posted on Instagram that she would be telling “my story”, adding in a follow-up message: “I’ve partnered with @Patreon where I will be posting daily chapters of my story. Things I’m going to reveal that was sworn the day of the light can’t be seen – by NDA I risk my life for many others.”
In her Patreon posts, according to Essence, Savage acknowledged that she had been manipulated by Kelly.
She reportedly discussed meeting Kelly when she was 15 at a concert and later dropped out of college to move in with him. She claimed Kelly would tell her, “Girl, you’re going to be the next Aaliyah.” However, her account has been removed from Patreon.
In July, Kelly was convicted of nine charges, including racketeering and violating the Mann Act, which prohibits the interstate transportation of women and girls for “immoral purposes.”