For the second consecutive summer, a federal jury has convicted R&B superstar R. Kelly. More info:
For the second consecutive summer, a federal jury has convicted Chicago-born R&B superstar R. Kelly.
On trial alongside Kelly was his former business manager, Derrel McDavid, and former assistant, Milton "June" Brown. Kelly and Brown declined to testify, but McDavid spent more than two days on the witness stand answering questions in his own defense. Now in her late 30s, Jane said the singer began to sexually abuse her when she was around 14 and Kelly was in his early 30s. She said it began after she asked him to be her godfather. She told jurors that three videos at issue in Kelly’s latest trial depicted her abuse. Among them was the same video at the center of Kelly’s 2008 trial.
One of them was Lisa Van Allen, a former girlfriend and longtime accuser of Kelly’s who appeared in the Lifetime docuseries "Surviving R. Kelly." She testified along with two others — Charles Freeman and Keith Murrell — about attempts to track down videos of Kelly and Jane amid Kelly’s child-pornography prosecution in the 2000s.Van Allen long claimed that she was 17 when she met Kelly and first had a sexual encounter with him.
Though Freeman never got his $1 million, he said he collected more than a half-million dollars in mostly cash payments over the years from Kelly’s associates. He said he only handed his remaining copies of the tape over in 2019 to his attorney, who gave them to law enforcement, when he learned he could be facing charges.
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