According to the parents of several of the women and to three former members of R. Kelly’s inner circle, allege he is holding them against their will.  This from a Buzzfeed interview.

“Six women live in properties rented by Kelly in Chicago and the Atlanta suburbs,” the report says, citing details from Cheryl Mack, Kitti Jones, and Asante McGee, the three former inner-circle members. “He controls every aspect of their lives: dictating what they eat, how they dress, when they bathe, when they sleep, and how they engage with him.

This is just a bit of the report from Buzzfeed…see the whole story HERE