R. Kelly’s former granddaughter testified in court on Thursday about the R&B legend — claiming he had sex with her “hundreds of times” when she was a minor and posing as a prostitute to keep her quiet. Forced to.
The now-37-year-old woman, known only as “Jane”, described how Kelly found herself at the age of 14 while having oral sex with her at her home in Chicago, the fourth of the singer’s federal child pornography trial. Videotaped during the day. ,
According to the Chicago Tribune, she said the disgraced singer gave her champagne, instructed her to refer to her genitalia as “a 14-year-old,” then urinated on it.
In another video from the time, Kelly was shown handing her money before having sex with her in her wood-paneled Jacuzzi room, she testified.
When asked by a prosecutor why the superstar gave her the cash, Jane burst into tears at the stand.
“Because if anyone saw the tape or for some reason it was released they would say I was a prostitute,” she said.
Jen testified that the Grammy-winning star then had sex with her “innumerable times”, sometimes with other teenage girls whom Kelly requested to recruit.
Two of the other minor victims are expected to testify against Kelly later in the trial. Jury members are also expected to be shown video footage of the star having sex with minors.
Prosecutors have alleged that the singer paid Jane and her family so she would not testify in her 2008 child pornography trial. He was eventually acquitted in that case.
Kelly, 55, now faces a 13-count federal indictment, which includes charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice.
He was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison in June after pleading guilty in Brooklyn federal court to nine counts, including racketeering and violating the Mann Act.
A host of victims testified in the 2021 trial, where prosecutors portrayed Kelly as a “predator” who preyed on her young fans and sexually abused them for decades.
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