{"podcast":{"title":"DISGRACELAND","slug":"disgraceland-1373771","podcast_index_feed_id":1373771,"rss_url":"https://rss.pdrl.fm/b36e29/www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/6832e3a9-08f5-4abe-9187-b41a010fdf8a/27cefb58-d75d-4314-b368-b41a010fdf9b/podcast.rss","website_url":"https://www.disgracelandpod.com/","image_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/6832e3a9-08f5-4abe-9187-b41a010fdf8a/27cefb58-d75d-4314-b368-b41a010fdf9b/image.jpg?t=1775716296&size=Large","author":"Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts","episode_count":477,"summary":"DISGRACELAND is an award-winning music and true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. Jerry Lee Lewis's 5th wife? Dead. Sid and Nancy? Both dead. Why? Because musicians are insane, and insane things happen to them. Why did we lose Amy Winehouse at 27? Was Debbie Harry really abducted by Ted Bundy as she claims? Is Patti Smith not just the \"Godmother of Punk\", but also the \"Original True Crime Girl\"? What really happened the night of the Jay Z nightclub stabbing? What do the Diddy indictments truly reveal? All these stories and more, on artists from every genre and their true crimes, in our massive 260-plus story archive. The Dead, the Stones, Johnny, Willie, Frank, Kurt, Courtney, Gaga, Lana, Taylor, and too many to name. DISGRACELAND is music history come to life through audio storytelling as you've never heard it before, with revealing facts: yes, assassins are the real reason the Beatles quit touring—reclaimed myths: no, Mama Cass didn't die from choking on a ham sandwich––and constant reckoning between art and artist––all told through the lens of true crime. This is the podcast for the self-proclaimed \"Disgos\", the musically obsessed a…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-08T14:20:54.111681+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disgraceland-1373771"},"episode":{"title":"R. Kelly: Superstars, Super Predators, and a 20-Year Reign of Sexual Terror (Rewind)","slug":"r-kelly-superstars-super-predators-and-a-20-year-reign-of-sexual-terror-rewind","published_at":"2026-08-23T07:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disgraceland-1373771/r-kelly-superstars-super-predators-and-a-20-year-reign-of-sexual-terror-rewind","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disgraceland-1373771","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/disgraceland/r-kelly-superstars-super-predators-and-a-20-year-reign-of-sexual-terror-rewind","audio_url":"https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/6832e3a9-08f5-4abe-9187-b41a010fdf8a/746b07cb-9262-4d34-901a-b4af00192a5f/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=27cefb58-d75d-4314-b368-b41a010fdf9b","summary":"R. Kelly openly groomed teenage victims while on trial for child pornography – a trial based on sex tapes that were once sold at Tower Records. He wrote a song designed to help Michael Jackson turn attention away from his own troubling allegations, and he wrote that song while he was illegally married to a 15-year old. That marriage eventually brought about his downfall. But not before R. Kelly went on a 20-year reign of terror – all conducted in plain sight while he was one of the biggest R&B artists in the world. This episode contains themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including sexual assault, child sexual assault, and domestic violence. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at  www.disgracelandpod.com . To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at  disgracelandpod.com/membership . Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter)  Facebook Fan Group TikTok   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.","meta_description":"R. Kelly openly groomed teenage victims while on trial for child pornography – a trial based on sex tapes that were once sold at Tower Records. He w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2109,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/disgraceland-1373771/episodes/r-kelly-superstars-super-predators-and-a-20-year-reign-of-sexual-terror-rewind/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/disgraceland-1373771/r-kelly-superstars-super-predators-and-a-20-year-reign-of-sexual-terror-rewind.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}