When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Jane, moving her around to different hotels. Prosecutors now say Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago's South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it, and so he conspired to fix that trial.Īccording to prosecutors, Kelly told Jane and her parents to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. Retired Chicago Detective Daniel Everett also testified on Thursday that he got the tape from a former Chicago Sun-Times journalist, and immediately recognized Jane in the footage - though she had denied being involved. In it, the girl is heard calling the man 'daddy.' Prosecutors have said Kelly shot an explicit video of Jane in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 19.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS WAR IN THE NORTH PORN TRIAL
Unlike at the 2008 trial, Jane cooperated with prosecutors leading up to the current trial and is a pivotal witness. 'It would help me loosen up, kind of take me away from the moment,' she said.īy the time she was 15, she said, they started having sex, and when asked by a prosecutor how she knew her exact age, Jane replied: 'Because that's when I lost my virginity.'įrom there, Jane said, they would have intercourse in Kelly's home on West George Street, at his Near West Side recording studio, on tour buses and in hotels.Īsked by a prosecutor how she would know what to do sexually, Jane answered: 'He would tell me what to do.'Īnd when asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: 'Uncountable times.hundreds.' Kelly then gave her alcohol for the first time when she was 14, Jane said, and she began drinking heavily. In at least one case, WGN-TV reports, she said Kelly asked her what color her underwear was, and told her he was pleasuring himself as they spoke.
Jane said she obliged, and Kelly 'chuckled a bit, and said "yes."īut soon the relationship became sexual, Jane claimed, and he started having explicit phone conversations. She said her aunt then advised her to ask Kelly to be her godfather, explaining her aunt told her 'I should sit on his lap and rub his head and ask him to play that role in my life.' 'It made me feel happy that such a successful person was saying I was gifted, so I was excited,' Jane testified, according to the Chicago Tribune. She was in a music group at the time, and Kelly - a friend of her aunt's - attended one of their performances, and gave her good feedback. In court on Thursday, Jane revealed she first met Kelly when she was 13. R Kelly is standing trial in his hometown of Chicago on charges of producing child pornography and enticing minors for sex. Two other minor victims are also expected to testify in the Chicago trial, which is expected to last about a month. Now, though, Kelly, 55, is serving a 30-year prison sentence for his conviction in a New York earlier this year on other federal charges alleging he used his fame to sexually abuse fans over several decades. She didn't, and he was ultimately acquitted. Prosecutors say Kelly paid off and threatened Jane and her family to ensure that she didn't testify at a similar 2008 trial. He stands charged in Chicago federal court with enticing of minors for sex, producing child pornography and rigging his 2008 pornography trial. With her testimony on Thursday, Jane served as the first former victim to speak out about what she allegedly endured in the R&B star's ongoing trial. Sometimes, she testified, they would have sex with other teenage girls she would recruit at Kelly's request. Kelly, 55, would have been around 30 years old at the time. Jane said she was 15 when they first had intercourse. He first touched her breasts and other parts of her body when she was around 14 at a Chicago recording studio, she testified, and that around that time, he 'started penetration' at his home at his North Side Chicago home.
Within weeks, she said, Kelly would call her and say sexual things. Jane - the pseudonym for the now 37-year-old woman at Kelly's trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges - told jurors that in the late 1990s when she was 13, she asked the Grammy award-winning singer to be her godfather because she saw him as an inspiration and mentor. Kelly's legal troubles for more than two decades testified Thursday that the R&B singer had sex with her 'hundreds' of times before she turned 18 years old, starting when she was just 15.
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