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The R. Kelly child pornography trial just gets weirder and weirder. And a good deal of it is downright disgusting. In testimony yesterday, the prosecution’s star witness (and three-way sex tape participator) Lisa Van Allen said Kelly carried around a duffel bag filled with his homemade sex tapes. She said wherever Kelly went, the bag went. Not necessarily for safekeeping, but for easy access. Van Allen had a relationship with Kelly from early 1998 to 2001.
R&B superstar R. Kelly carried a duffel bag filled with homemade sex videotapes wherever he went, a woman testified Monday. While making one such tape, Kelly cut off the filming when the woman — Lisa Van Allen — started crying during three-way sex with an underage girl, Van Allen testified.
“He got upset and said he couldn’t watch that. He couldn’t do anything with that, with me crying. He stopped the camera,” Van Allen said. The tapes Kelly liked went with him to his recording studio, to his favorite basketball gym — Hoops on the near West Side — and to video shoots, she said.
“Wherever he was at, the [duffel] bag would follow,” Van Allen said.
[From the Chicago Sun-Times]
Van Allen also described her relationship with Kelly and how many times they made sex tapes.
Van Allen’s testimony — covering her relationship with Kelly and how she ultimately became a witness against him — came under fierce attack by the defense, which contended she wanted money from Kelly. After Van Allen spent most of the day on the stand, the prosecution rested.
Van Allen said Kelly told her the girl was 16, though prosecutors contend she was as young as 13. Van Allen testified that Kelly videotaped the threesome — a tape separate from the one at the heart of the current case.
A year later, the trio had sex again — this time on Kelly’s indoor basketball court, she testified. Van Allen wept as she described how Kelly put a futon mattress on the court. It was during that three-way encounter that she cried, Van Allen said, prompting Kelly to stop the videotaping.
The three had sex again in 2000 inside Kelly’s trailer at a video shoot in Chicago, Van Allen said.
[From the Chicago Sun-Times]
Van Allen was 18 at the time she made the first sex tape with R. Kelly, which the prosecution points out makes the other girl in the video 14 at the time. Which is utterly disgusting. The defense managed to paint Van Allen as a thief and a liar – getting her to admit that she stole a Rolex from Kelly. They’ve also managed to really cloud the prosecution’s case in terms of the identity of the man on the tape, who they claim is not R. Kelly and was digitally manipulated to look like him. Unfortunately for the defense, an F.B.I. expert testified that the tape had not been digitally altered.
The prosecution rested today, and did a good job, given their resources. The defense’s whole strategy is to muddy the waters, blame the victim, and give ridiculous explanations – basically do anything and everything, no matter how extreme, to get Kelly off. It seems pretty clear to most people following the case that he’s guilty as sin – but if I were the betting type, I’d still put all my money on R. Kelly getting off.
Here are older file photos of R. Kelly. Images thanks to WENN.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Legal Troubles, Photos, R. Kelly, Sex, Trials
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I don’t getn why people still buy his music.
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The people who buy his music think it is good and he does tracks with some the best in his industry. As long as R Kelly can make someone else rich he will be allowed to continue his career. A jail sentence won’t ruin him. Lil kim is a good example, it did not take long for her to get back on t.v soon after being released from jail.
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“basically do anything and everything, no matter how extreme, to get Kelly off.”
I guess that’s why he’s in court, huh.
sorry- feeling naughty…
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saluting to the porn devil. what a whack job.
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HE’S A PIG
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“alleged” utter utter scumbag. Allegedly.
The spattergun defence is no real defence. I have a horrible feeling that he will be acquitted (sorry anon
) but here’s hoping that the courts will see sense
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I don’t know-I think he’s going down-(whoops!) I mean, I think they’ll find him guilty.
In all seriousness-the man is a degenerate and needs to be punished.
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Personally I think he’s a monster, but does that mean I don’t like his music? No. I lvoe some of his songs.
You can like something someone has done while hating them. We all do it everyday.
I think he should go away though, and not in solitary confinement. Let him get the crap kicked out of him for not only being famous but for being a child molestor and rapist, then let him out to make some good music. (I don’t mean let out let out, I mean more over give him a day pass with a guard, only because he does have a talent).
Now I know it’s never going to happen I’ll probably be ripped to shreds over my comment but whatever.
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um, I think that my comment @ 8:35 may have been misunderstood- it was a quote from the article. It made me smirk because of the reason the pig is in so much trouble. It isn’t anything that I wish to do, rest assured.
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Sure. You can like what someone does while hating the person. However, when what that person is a sexual predator, taking advantage of little girls too naive to realize just what they’re doing, I don’t care what he has to offer: I’m Not Buying.
The world has many singers/songwriters out there. I’d rather listen to the worst one who doesn’t have a predilection for pre-pubescent girls than to one of the best who does. Call it personal preference. Call it principle. I’d rather not SUPPORT the pedophile just because he’s liked by the music community.
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he always looks like he’s having the worst day of his life.
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CUT IT OFF AND FEED IT TO THE BIRDS
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All his shit sucks anyway. He’s nasty! Walking around with a bunch of sex tapes with underage girls on him, that’s just sick!!!
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Didn’t he marry Aaliyah when she was only 15? Why hasn’t anyone brought that up in court?
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Dora: because the marriage to Aaliyah was annulled.
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Mylie Smylie’s father may not actually have sex with his under-age daughter, but he is pimping her out as a sex object nonetheless and that is socially acceptable. Lohan’s mother did the same to her and now her sister.
Pop culture sexualizes teenagers and then we act all horrified when someone has sex with them. R.Kelly sounds like a sex addict – and a jerk. But he is no different that millions of men – who buy the barely legal brand of porn. And I can assure you that anyone of them would act on it/have acted on it.
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When is this pervert going to have his day in court? He has a trail. That Aaliyah thing was part of it.
I don’t give him the benefit of the doubt.
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I’m with you 100 %, Daisfly
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