The multiplatinum R&B singer R. Kelly, who is facing a renewed protest effort by activists who say he has sexually abused young girls and women for more than two decades, once again denied the growing list of accusations in a statement released by his management team on Friday.

The response came after a new report in BuzzFeed that detailed the accounts of two women, one of whom said she began sleeping with the singer when she was 17 — a year under the age of consent in Florida, where she lived — in 1995, and that he became mentally and physically abusive throughout a four-year relationship. A second woman told the publication that her 27-year-old daughter began dating the singer 10 years ago and is currently a member of what she called the singer’s abusive cult of women in Chicago and Atlanta.

“R. Kelly has close friendships with a number of women who are strong, independent, happy, well cared for and free to come and go as they please,” the singer’s management team said in its response. “We deny the many dark descriptions put forth by instigators and liars who have their own agenda for seeking profit and fame.”

The statement continued: “All of the women targeted by the current media onslaught are legal adults of sound mind and body, with their own free will. Law enforcement officials in Atlanta and Chicago previously have made ‘wellness’ visits to check on the women in question and have found nothing to cause alarm.”