![]() Kelly would “slap $100 or two in my hand just for gas, my time.” Kelly “Daddy.” Sometimes afterward, he said, Mr. Kelly, he said the singer referred to him as “nephew,” although, Alex testified, they are not related. Kelly told him “just to be open-minded.”ĭuring sexual encounters with Mr. “I recall him just talking to me, then forcefully kissing me, licking my face,” he said, adding that afterward Mr. Kelly first made an advance on him inside the singer’s Maybach, when Alex was about 20 years old, he said. He testified that for more than a decade he often saw the singer at parties and pickup basketball games - what he called “Kelly ball,” in which “you’d get the ball, rebound, let him shoot” - at a recreational center and a church gymnasium in Chicago. Kelly had addressed, she was not aware whether the two had sexual encounters immediately following that incident.Īlex, the male accuser who appeared on Monday, also testified to “countless” sexual encounters with the R&B superstar and other women at Mr. While Aaliyah was among the girls that Mr. “It was dues time,” she added, explaining to jurors that the singer often presented having sex with him as a form of paying their dues.Īngela said that she refused the singer’s advances. “Robert told all of us we would have to put out,” she said. When he learned of their disobedience, he demanded sex, she said. Kelly had told them not to leave their hotel. Angela told jurors that they had made a trip to a 7-Eleven convenience store for food, but that Mr. On a separate stop in Washington, D.C., during the tour, Angela recalled that she and a group of other girls including Aaliyah were reprimanded for breaking the singer’s instructions. Aaliyah traveled on a tour with him to “get her feet wet” in the industry around 1992 or 1993, Angela told jurors, but it was during that trip, she said, that she saw the two engaged in a sexual act.Īaliyah would have been 13 or 14 at the time. She told jurors that she first met Aaliyah shortly before the young singer began to work on her first album, “Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number,” with Mr. ![]() Kelly often pressured her and several others who worked around him as backup performers to have sex. The singer began to have sex with her while she was underage and a student in high school, she testified.Īngela recalled that Mr. Kelly around 1991, when she was between 14 and 15 years old. But the racketeering charge, which claims that the singer, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was the head of a criminal scheme that preyed on women and underage girls for sex, allows the government wider latitude.Īngela said she first met Mr. ![]() Potential sexual crimes that date to the early 1990s would typically be too old to prosecute. Kelly was 27, prompted the first significant scrutiny of his encounters with underage girls. The marriage of the two singers, using falsified documents when Aaliyah was 15 and Mr. He said that they began having sex when he was 20, and said that from 2007 to 2019 he was “brainwashed” by the singer.Īaliyah, who was one of the most celebrated music stars of the 1990s, has been a significant focus of Mr. Kelly groomed him for sex beginning when he was 16. The witness, identified only as Alex, said Mr. He has denied the accusations and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.Īlso on Monday, a second male accuser testified against Mr. Kelly, 54, faces one count of racketeering and eight counts of violating the Mann Act, which prohibits transporting people across state lines for the purpose of prostitution. Aaliyah, whose full name was Aaliyah Dana Haughton, died in a plane crash in 2001. And Angela became the first accuser to testify that she had seen the two engaged in sexual acts. Kelly married illegally in 1994, is the youngest girl that the singer has been accused of sexually abusing. But Angela’s account stood apart from others: Aaliyah, whom Mr. Kelly had sex with them while they were underage. Kelly’s trial, during which six accusers, including Angela, have said that Mr. The testimony came on the 15th day of Mr. Kelly was kneeling and appeared to be performing a sex act on the girl.Īngela “closed the door abruptly,” she said, and never spoke with Mr. Aaliyah was seated in a chair, she said, and Mr. Kelly, who was in his mid-20s at the time, and Aaliyah “in a sexual situation,” she told jurors. ![]() Kelly on tour when she went to visit the singer on his tour bus.īut as she began to open the door, Angela said, she saw Mr. Kelly’s criminal trial in Brooklyn that she was performing with Mr. The woman, who testified under only the name Angela, told jurors at Mr. Kelly engaging in a sex act with the R&B singer Aaliyah around 1993, when Aaliyah was only 13 or 14 years old. ![]()
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