R. Kelly

Now 37, the woman, referred to in court as Jane, told jurors Thursday that she had been sexually abused “hundreds” of times by Kelly but lied to protect the ...

R. Kelly's attorney will get the chance to cross-examine the key witness in his Chicago federal trial, a woman who says she was the teenager seen on the sex ...

A woman has identified herself as the underage girl in the footage that formed the basis of R. Kelly's child pornography trial in the 2000s.

R. Kelly's legal team is getting its chance Friday to question the government's star witness at the R&B singer's federal trial in Chicago.

'Bump N' Grind' musician is facing trial for child pornography charges.

Good morning, Chicago. The woman had been testifying for more than four hours Thursday about her clandestine sexual relationship with R&B superstar R. Kelly ...

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Kelly has denied any wrongdoing. He faces charges of child pornography and enticement of minors as well as conspiring to rig that 2008 trial by intimidating and ...

Prosecutors say Kelly intimidated and paid off the girl — Jane — to ensure she didn't testify at the 2008 trial to identify herself and Kelly in the critical video, which the government says Kelly made in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home around 2000. After the acquittal in the 2008 trial, some jurors said afterward that they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the girl — by then an adult — didn't testify. Kelly” was coming out, Jane said she was concerned for Kelly and reached out to him. She told jurors: “I felt comfortable enough to reach out to him because I was afraid.” Under questioning, Jane said her relationship with Kelly lasted 12 years and continued for two years after his 2008 trial, until she was 26. She said she lied because she didn’t want to get others in trouble.

Now 37, she has been identified in court only as "Jane," and had previously denied Kelly abused her, but prosecutors say that's because Kelly's team ...

Jane confirmed she lived with Kelly and his wife in her early 20s, and was involved in a sexual relationship with the couple. Jane has said Kelly abused her hundreds of times from when she was 14 until she turned 18. Following the release of the docuseries "Surviving R. Going only by the pseudonym "Jane" during the trial, telling jurors that it's her with Kelly on the videos. The woman who has accused R. After the woman, identified only as Jane, who has accused R. The trial is expected to last four weeks. Kelly" was released in January 2019. The man was also heard giving her sexually explicit instructions. Until the trial, Jane and her family have publicly denied she was abused, and Jane has testified she lied to a Cook County grand jury before the 2008 child pornography trial where Kelly was acquitted. She testified Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times from the time she was 14 until she turned 18. CHICAGO (CBS) -- The jury in R.

CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly's legal team will get its chance to question the government's star witness on Friday after she testified at his federal trial in Chicago ...

Prosecutors say Kelly intimidated and paid off the girl — Jane — to ensure she didn’t testify at the 2008 trial to identify herself and Kelly in the critical video, which the government says Kelly made in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home around 2000. After the acquittal in the 2008 trial, some jurors said afterward that they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the girl — by then an adult — didn’t testify. Kelly” was coming out, Jane said she was concerned for Kelly and reached out to him. She told jurors: “I felt comfortable enough to reach out to him because I was afraid.” Under questioning, Jane said her relationship with Kelly lasted 12 years and continued for two years after his 2008 trial, until she was 26. She said she lied because she didn’t want to get others in trouble.

The witness, who goes by the pseudonym Jane at the trial, testified Thursday that Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times before she turned 18.

Jane first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. Earlier, Jane also became emotional when she was asked to explain why Kelly can be seen handing money to her in the video. Earlier, she testified that Kelly sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 years old, starting when she was 15. She described her parents confronting Kelly in the early 2000s about whether he was having sex with their daughter. She said within weeks, Kelly would call her and say sexual things. The scrutiny intensified after the #MeToo era and the 2019 six-part documentary “Surviving R. “I became exhausted living with his lies,” she answered. Some jurors for the 2008 trial, which was on state charges, said that they had no choice but to acquit the R&B star because the girl — by then an adult — didn’t testify. “I was ashamed.” “I was protecting him.” “I also did not want that person to be me,” she told jurors. Jane, the pseudonym used for her during the trial, has been central to Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades.

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 ...

Prosecutors say Kelly intimidated and paid off the girl — Jane — to ensure she didn’t testify at the 2008 trial to identify herself and Kelly in the critical video, which the government says Kelly made in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home around 2000. After the acquittal in the 2008 trial, some jurors said afterward that they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the girl — by then an adult — didn’t testify. Kelly” was coming out, Jane said she was concerned for Kelly and reached out to him. Under questioning, Jane said her relationship with Kelly lasted 12 years and continued for two years after his 2008 trial, until she was 26. She also said Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times from the late 1990s before she turned 18. She said she lied because she didn’t want to get others in trouble.

The woman testified at the singer's federal trial in Chicago that she had been persuaded not to testify against him at his 2008 state trial, which ended in ...

She testified that she had falsely told the grand jury that it was not her on the videotape and that she was not sexually involved with Mr. The woman told the jury that she was 13 years old when she was first introduced to Mr. According to the federal indictment, Mr. The 2008 trial focused on one video, but the current trial centers on four videos that prosecutors say show Mr. The woman affirmed that in exchange for her testimony, prosecutors had granted her immunity from prosecution for perjury related to the false grand jury testimony in 2002. Kelly, Jennifer Bonjean, sought to undermine her testimony in cross-examination on Friday, asking the woman about an immunity deal she made with prosecutors and the possibility that she would ask for restitution. She testified that Mr. The tape surfaced after a journalist for The Chicago Sun-Times who had reported on the accusations against Mr. Kelly and testified that it was in fact her at age 14 appearing in the videotape, which at one point shows Mr. He then urged her to deny to a grand jury that it was her on the tape and paid for a lawyer to accompany her, she said. The woman at the center of that trial, now 37, took the stand at the Everett M. Kelly as the people in the infamous video, saying that they had sex “hundreds” of times when she was underage, and explaining how two decades ago he had persuaded her to deny their relationship to law enforcement officials.

The woman is the prosecution's start witness in the singer's federal trial on charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice. R Kelly.

On the stand Thursday, Jane conceded that she lied to a grand jury in 2002 when she said it wasn’t her in the video. She said she met Kelly through an aunt who worked with him, and that she asked him to be her godfather when she was 13 because she viewed him as an inspiration and a mentor. She said she was about 14 years old at the time it was shot. Kelly” was coming out, Jane said she was concerned for Kelly and reached out to him. She told jurors: “I felt comfortable enough to reach out to him because I was afraid.” Under questioning, Jane said her relationship with Kelly lasted 12 years and continued for two years after his 2008 trial, until she was 26.

R. Kelly's federal Chicago trial began as the convicted sex offender faces another round of charges. Here's the major things that happened so far.

In one case, they said one older man appeared to have a hard time staying awake. Earlier, prosecutors suggested that any viewing of the videos by the public could run afoul of child pornography laws, and they asked Judge Harry Leinenweber to send reporters and spectators out of the courtroom while jurors watched them. Kelly a jury of his peers.” She told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse. Before the videos were played on monitors in front of each juror’s chair, court officials set up high opaque screens around the jury that blocked journalists and spectators from seeing the videos and jurors’ reactions to them. On the stand Thursday, Jane conceded that she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her in the video. Kelly's second federal trial ](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/08/18/r-kelly-trial-chicago-accuser-minor-sex-hundreds-times/7834363001/)began this week in his [ several sex-crimes charges](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/08/15/r-kelly-trial-chicago-explained/10228266002/). [hometown of Chicago as the R&B singer once again faces](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/08/15/r-kelly-trial-chicago-explained/10228266002/)hometown of Chicago as the R&B singer once again faces She told jurors: “I felt comfortable enough to reach out to him because I was afraid.” Under questioning, Jane said her relationship with Kelly lasted 12 years and continued for two years after his 2008 trial, until she was 26. Jane returned to the stand Aug. Some jurors from the 2008 trial said they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the girl didn’t testify.

Now 37, she has been identified in court only as "Jane," and had previously denied Kelly abused her, but prosecutors say that's because Kelly's team ...

Jane confirmed she lived with Kelly and his wife in her early 20s, and was involved in a sexual relationship with the couple. Jane has said Kelly abused her hundreds of times from when she was 14 until she turned 18. Following the release of the docuseries "Surviving R. Going only by the pseudonym "Jane" during the trial, telling jurors that it's her with Kelly on the videos. The woman who has accused R. After the woman, identified only as Jane, who has accused R. The trial is expected to last four weeks. Kelly" was released in January 2019. The man was also heard giving her sexually explicit instructions. Until the trial, Jane and her family have publicly denied she was abused, and Jane has testified she lied to a Cook County grand jury before the 2008 child pornography trial where Kelly was acquitted. She testified Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times from the time she was 14 until she turned 18. CHICAGO (CBS) -- The jury in R.

A woman who says she was sexually abused hundreds of times by R. Kelly before she turned 18 testified Friday that she agonized about whether to cooperate ...

On the stand Thursday, Jane conceded that she lied to a grand jury in 2002 when she said it wasn’t her in the video. She said she met Kelly through an aunt who worked with him, and that she asked him to be her godfather when she was 13 because she viewed him as an inspiration and a mentor. She said she was about 14 years old at the time it was shot. Kelly was coming out, Jane said she was concerned for Kelly and reached out to him. She told jurors: “I felt comfortable enough to reach out to him because I was afraid.” Under questioning, Jane said her relationship with Kelly lasted 12 years and continued for two years after his 2008 trial, until she was 26.

FILE – Musician R. Kelly leaves the Leighton Criminal Court building in Chicago on June 6, 2019. A woman who says she was sexually abused hundreds of times by ...

After the acquittal in the 2008 trial, some jurors said afterward that they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the girl — by then an adult — didn’t testify. Prosecutors say Kelly intimidated and paid off the girl — Jane — to ensure she didn’t testify at the 2008 trial to identify herself and Kelly in the critical video, which the government says Kelly made in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home around 2000. Kelly” was coming out, Jane said she was concerned for Kelly and reached out to him. She told jurors: “I felt comfortable enough to reach out to him because I was afraid.” Under questioning, Jane said her relationship with Kelly lasted 12 years and continued for two years after his 2008 trial, until she was 26. She said she lied because she didn’t want to get others in trouble.

Alleged victim known as "Jane" was heard repeatedly apologizing to R. Kelly in audio from the footage in court on Friday in federal trial in Chicago.

On redirect, prosecutors worked to establish that the text exchanges were about scheduling leading up to the trial. She said the sexual acts took place at Kelly’s then-home, his recording studios, on tour buses, and at hotels. In one clip, Jane is instructed by what appears to be Kelly to turn around and “get on her knees.” “Daddy, do you still love me?” she is heard to be asking. Leinenweber did not agree and instead obscured the video screens depicting the videotapes from the public and media’s view in the gallery as jurors and the legal teams were allowed to watch. Kelly aired, Jane allegedly texted to Kelly, “You need to call me right away or I’m making decisions on my own.” Bonjean asked if this was a means for Jane to receive payment to keep quiet, which Jane denied. Bonjean also brought up restitution, which Jane is apparently entitled to should Kelly be convicted, but Jane said she had not decided whether she would pursue that. Kelly](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/r-kelly/)’s alleged underage sexual assault victim, known under the pseudonym Jane and central to his child pornography federal trial in Chicago, was heard apologizing to her alleged abuser multiple times in more than one videotape clip submitted as evidence by the prosecution on Friday. District Judge Harry Leinenweber clear the courtroom of the public and media on the basis that the tapes were allegedly child pornography. Additionally, Kelly and McDavid are facing obstruction of justice charges tied to allegations that they paid off people who knew about Kelly’s alleged abuse, and tried to impede the 2008 child pornography investigation into Kelly. Kelly could be heard affirming her age in some of the clips. He and co-defendants Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown are also charged with receiving child pornography as part of an alleged effort to recover missing tapes that allegedly show Kelly engaged in sex acts with minors. [facing multiple charges](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/r-kelly-arrested-federal-sex-trafficking-charges-858154/) of coercing five minors into sex acts, and several charges related to producing child pornography.