The Post Chronicle reports that Janet recently made a phone call to singer and dancer Kevin Aviance recently after he was attacked by a mob of up to seven men on Saturday June 10th in Manhattan’s East Village. Four people were arrested on charges of first-degree assault as a hate crime, according to NYPD detectives assigned to the case. Aviance’s song “Alive” hit the top of the Billboard dance chart in 2002 and he is the most celebrated black, gay male dance musician and fashion designer in New York City and Los Angeles.

Click the thumbnail above to enlarge a photo of Janet with Kevin taken at Splash Bar in New York a few years ago.