Key prosecution witness Lisa Van Allen testified yesterday (June 2) at R. Kelly’s child pornography case that she had videotaped, three-way sex twice with R. Kelly and an underage girl.
Van Allen explained that after she met R. Kelly in late 1997, they filmed each other with the alleged victim on two separate occasions – once in 1999, and once in 2000. Prosecutors made it a point to explain that neither tape was the one shown to the jury at the trail, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Van Allen went on to say that before last week, she had never seen the video shown to jurors, which allegedly depicts R. Kelly having sex with the alleged victim – who was 13 at the time; when she did see it, however, she identified the people in it as the Grammy-award winning singer and the alleged victim.
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“They both looked exactly the same way,” said Van Allen, who estimated the year of the video’s filming as 1998. She also said she recognized the room.
Reports from the New York Post elaborated on Van Allen’s testimony; one occasion she described was following an awards ceremony at which R. Kelly had been honored. According to Van Allen’s testimony, she, R. Kelly and the alleged victim were filmed having sex on a black futon set up on his private basketball court.
“He took up his camera and we took off our clothes and we all had sex again,” said Van Allen.She then broke into tears and said, “I didn’t want to do it,” she said. “[Kelly] stopped everything and we left.“
