R. Kelly Run Down: The Case of the Missing Mole?
Lookin’ for some tantalizing dinner conversation this weekend? Popsquire is here to help! In case you haven’t been following the R. Kelly child pornography trial, here’s enough info to start and get through a decent (or indecent) conversation…
- The R&B superstar pleaded not guilty to videotaping himself having sex with and urinating on a girl estimated to be 13 or 14.
- The video shows a girl accepting money from the man before performing oral sex on him. She dances, naked, to a Backstreet Boys song. She urinates. She calls him “Daddy” while they have sex. Later, the man (allegedly Kelly) urinates and ejaculates on her.
- The defense is two-fold: (1) Kelly is not on the sex tape, evidenced by a missing mole on his back; and (2) it’s a case of mistaken identity in that the alleged victim supposedly is not on the sex tape. The prosecution, however, insists that the tape “was created, staged, produced and starred in by the defendant.”
- More than 10 witnesses have identified the alleged victim, while three relatives of the girl claim it’s a case of mistaken identity.
- An expert for the prosecution played the sex tape in slow motion on a giant screen. During the testimony, he showed the man (allegedly Kelly) with his back turned and a dark spot (i.e., a mole) clearly visible.
- Kelly’s defense team countered the potentially damaging testimony with their own expert, who described the markings as “artifacts” created by the tape’s poor quality and multiple reproductions.
- Lisa Van Allen, who claims to have had an ongoing sexual relationship with Kelly, testified that in 1988, Kelly took her to his former home on the North Side of Chicago, where she met the alleged victim in this case for the first time. Kelly taped them while they had three-way sex in his “log-cabin” room. That’s the same room he’s alleged to have filmed the tape in this case. Van Allen testified that Kelly told her the alleged victim was 16.
- Van Allen claims Kelly’s business manager, Derrel McDavid, paid her and another man $20,000 each for the return of a sex tape (not the one at issue in this case).
- Kelly’s defense team countered Van Allen’s testimony by trying to undermine her credibility in several ways, including: (a) getting her to admit that she stole a Rolex watch from Kelly after a tryst at a Swissotel in Georgia in 2001; and (b) Jack Palladino — a private investigator best known for being hired by Bill Clinton to track down women he’d been linked with — testified that Van Allen’s fiance of the wanted a $300,000 payoff to keep the witness quiet.
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Kelly is in Hot water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kelly is a sick sad pervet, i dont undrstand why people think he could not have done it, i mean, the dude made gosple songs and sex songs, basically, broadining himself for profit from both religious and non-religious people. with everyday people we have millions of pervets so are we trying to say that in the world of entertainment they are too good to be perverted??, i mean if someone can surgically remove his spine to give himself a blowjob, and others have done theur share of weard things, i dont find this boezoez acts surprising at all, all i know is i will pray for him to be convicted if he is guilty, so he can go to the Chicago Jail where he could get 15 years of Man to man action and all the urinationa and ejaculating on him that he wants.