Four More People Identify R. Kelly
Four more witnesses took the stand in a Chicago courtroom today to identify R. Kelly as the man in a video engaging in unlawful acts with a minor.
Four witnesses identified the girl, now 23, as the one on the tape; she herself has denied she’s the person in the video. The girl’s uncle and aunt, however, identify her as the one in the tape.The singer’s defense continued to push their strategy. They maintain the man on the tape is not Kelly and the image has been digitally altered.
“Something could have been done to put a different head on that body,” Defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. said, according to the Associated Press. (Source)
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Sparkle is laughing her ass off right about now…
r kelly i love your music…but wrong is wrong
its time for you to pay the price
That fool is goin down!!!!!!!!
Its a wrap!!!
Digitally altered by who, Ray Ray and Abinbulu the CD man on the corner? Yeah right. Those cats only tryin to get their $2 DVD’s off before the police run up on’em and close up shop! They don’t have time to alter no damn R. Kelly into no scene humpin a lil girl. If anything they should have made him a white man ie Michael Jackson.
Down goes Frazier!!! Down goes Frazier!!!
The sad thing is, he wont even go to prison for this
Is all of this even necessary? Didn’t Chris Rock say he knew it was R.Kelly by the Soul Train award that sitting on the nightstand in the sex video?
Just let Chris Rock testify and call it a day!
Bsoul..corner…NOW..lol
didnt the FBI already say the tape is AUTHENTIC?!?!?! so why are they still crying foul play, I hope the jurors laugh in their face when they come back with the guilty verdict!
Why is this case so important to the public? Clearly, he is guilty…every celebrity case always play out in the eyes of the media and the people.
Screaming @ BSoul … His defense attny must be Dave Chapplle …LOL …LOL
@ 2bme
Okay, I’ll go to the corner this time.
But you go too for that comment you made to African Dude.
LOL
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@ Kymestry
It makes me sort of wish Dave’s show was still on. I’d love to see this trial parodied by Dave!
I HOPE HE GOES TO JAIL, I LOVED HIS MUSIC, BUT HIS ACTIONS HAVE STRAIGHT TURNED ME OFF, I WILL NOT PURCHASE ANY MORE OF HIS MUSIC. I WILL NOT SUPPORT A PEDI. HE JUST MAKES ME SICK. I HOPE HE DOES GO TO JAIL, HE NEEDS TO BE THE EXAMPLE FOR THE REST OF THESE (TRUE) FREAKS.
He needs to go to jail and the young lady needs some counseling. In all seriousness I knew girls like her. I had a friend when I was in 7th grade that had been molested and she would sleep with grown men willingly. This was when we were 13. I am 28 now and I could tell you of many girls that wanted to be out there like that. I was still playing with Barbies and knew my mother would beat me down but believe me these girls need some help. There are plenty of sick individuals like R Kelly that would be willing to look at them as grown.
Poor poor R. Dude can’t help it if he likes the kiddies and they like him back.
@Bsoul..I have absolutely NO idea what you are referring too (innocent look)
LMAO @ Bsoul that was too funny . . .was it just a joke from Chris or is it really true?!. . .if so somebody needs to point that out to the prosecution ASAP!
Where is the infamous 12 year old now 23 year old child/woman? I am sure she’s received a subpeona by now.
Damn Kells!!
I guarantee this will be a lifetime movie in 6 months… That damn def attorney is gonna make the movie into a damn comedy!!! “Digitally altered” LMFAO!! Joke of the day, man!!!
LOCK HIM UP ALREADY…JEEZ!!!!
HE DID IT! (spoken like Cedric the entertainer in Barbershop when they were discussing OJ) LOL
Chile . . Kels is probably wishing right now he had a team of Johnnie Cohcrane’s (check spelling, ya’ll know who I mean). LOL.
I think he should suffer the same punishment Michael Jackson has suffered…
Disgraced…then disappears….
It would be nice…
Well I HAVEN’T seen the tape (Doesn’t interest me)
When I do I watch Real Porn, U know with actors who are paid-to-perform Sex acts
@2bme Says:
@Bsoul..I have absolutely NO idea what you are referring too (innocent look)
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Girl, don’t make me go over to that thread and do a cut & paste! LOL
You got what my granny call selective amnesia, with your crazy self.
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@estyle4039 Says:
LMAO @ Bsoul that was too funny . . .was it just a joke from Chris or is it really true?!. . .if so somebody needs to point that out to the prosecution ASAP!
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I think Chris was joking, but it was still funny. Who knows, RK is so arrogant, he probably has kinky footage of himself doing some “thangs” with his his awards locked up in some run-down storage.
You know he’s keeping up the payments so his stuff doesn’t get sold off like Paris Hilton’s and Michael Jacksons’s stuff was. That’s how Paris’s herpes secret was let out of the bag.
R. Kelly has become DUMB ASS WEAK, right around the time Jay-Z’s boy pepper sprayed him on the tour.
His songs are about NOTHIN, and that song about “Braiding hair” or whatever - had me HOT..
Wasn’t he talking about greasing his scalp and shampooing it in the song?!
He BEEN LOST ALL HIS MARBLES..
He’ll probably just get a slap on the wrist… no hard time for Kelly…
SMH
Genson to Sparkle: “I’m not your sweetie!”
R&B singer Stephanie “Sparkle” Edwards clashed with defense lawyer Ed Genson this afternoon when Genson said Edwards was driven by revenge and money in identifying a relative of hers as the girl on the R. Kelly sex tape
At one point, Edwards and Genson were shouting at each other simultaneously and the singer called the 66-year-old lawyer “Sweetie.”
“I am not your sweetie!” Genson shouted.
The exchange drew a stern rebuke from Judge Vincent Gaughan. “I don’t want you talking at the same time. This is a court of law.”
Edwards, who had a 1998 hit called “Be Careful” with Kelly, dabbed tears from her eyes with a tissue during direct examination by assistant state’s attorney Shauna Boliker. But under a blistering cross-examination by Genson, she kept her composure.
Edwards took the stand at around 2:30, wearing large silver hoop earrings, with a small patch of glitter near her left eye. She told Boliker of receiving a phone call in December 2001 from a lawyer named “Buddy,” who wanted her to view a videotape.
“There was this thing out there possibly depicting my [relative],” Edwards said.
The lawyer, who according to later testimony was named Buddy Meyers, sent an assistant to Sparkle’s Chicago residence to show her the tape. The lawyer insisted that no one else be present, Edwards said.
After watching the tape, she determined the girl shown engaging in sex acts was her relative, and the man was Kelly, she said. Edwards said in February 2002 she saw the tape again with Sun-Times pop music critic Jim DeRogatis, who had been sent the tape anonymously.
She said her relative appeared to be 13 or 14 in the tape, which includes scenes of intercourse, oral sex, and a man alleged to be Kelly urinating on the girl.
“You know your blood. I mean, she’s my [relative]. Her face, her hairdo. You just know your family,” Edwards said.
Edwards recounted how Kelly had launched her singing career, writing and producing her million-selling first album. After that project, she broke from Kelly, and she never again achieved that level of success, she admitted.
When her working relationship with Kelly was still intact, she introduced him to her young relative. “He liked her spirit. She was a very jolly person at the time. Very personable. Very light. She was my heart,” Edwards said.
Boliker showed Edwards photos of Kelly’s former residence at 1010 W. George, where the sex tape was allegedly made. The photos included shots of a mural depicting a basketball game between R. Kelly and the Tasmanian Devil, with Michael Jordan as the referee. One shot was of a scoreboard that read, “R. Kelly versus Taz D.”
Genson, on cross examination, pointed out that the cartoon images were from the movie “Space Jam,” for which Kelly had provided music. He then began asking Edwards about “midnight missionaries” who sometimes came by Kelly’s recording studio.
“Do you remember going to that church and praying for things like seduction and adultery?” Genson asked her.
Genson then got Edwards to talk about her break wth Kelly. She had wanted to work with other artists, “but that didn’t go over well,” she said.
“I asked to be released,” she added, and then went to make a record for Motown. Edwards made that one record, and has not made any since, she said.
In spite of the end of their professional relationship, “He was my homeboy. We were still cool,” Edwards said.
“You weren’t angry you’d been terminated?” Genson asked, suggesting Sparkle was after more money.
“More money? I hadn’t gotten any money. I haven’t gotten any royalties yet,” she said.
After breaking with Kelly, Edwards talked about doing a deal with Barry Hankerson, a record producer who also had a record label, Blackground.
“Was part of the deal you were talking about doing something bad to Robert?” Genson asked.
“No,” Edwards said.
But Sparkle admitted she was the one who got her young relative to start calling Kelly “Godfather.”
“Robert and I would play around, because he loved the Godfather movie. And he would do the whole thing with the ball in his jaw,” Edwards said. “She just kind of took to him as a father figure.”
Genson pointed to Edwards’ 2002 grand jury testimony, in which she said she never saw signs of a physical relationship between Kelly and her young relative. But on Thursday afternoon, Edwards said, “I saw little things, but nothing crazy.”
“Did you say you saw little things at the grand jury?” Genson said.
Prosecutors objected, saying the question had been asked and answered. Gaughan overruled them, saying, “It changes each time. If it was asked and answered, I’d put an end to it.”
The tension mounted as Genson asked if Edwards knew the tape was being sold all around Oak Park, the suburb where the family was based.
“You don’t know if someone put together a tape, put together a tape of old footage,” Genson said.
“Sir, it’s Robert [Kelly] and [the alleged victim] on that tape,” Edwards said.
“You don’t like Robert!” Genson said.
“I know my family,” Sparkle retorted.
Genson then asked if Edwards truly believed it was her relative on the tape, taking money for sex.
“Just like he made her do … She’s a robot on this tape,” Edwards said.
Im so sick of hearing about this crap I mean seriously it’s been what 6 years if they were that adament about locking him up they would have done it!! & the sad part is the young girl who was in the tape isn’t even gonna testify so maybe that meant that she enjoyed it or he paid her enough not to say anything who knows!!(lol) I know its planty of older mature woman who would have easily given it up for free but yet your patroling the school yards for sex that to me screams ISSUES!!!!
All of this is still sad. What bothers me the most is that he has been surrounded by “enablers” for so long, they are just as responsible because they did NOTHING..they said NOTHING. It may be true that Sparkle was mad but why wait until then, to turn the tape over? Im not exactly sure what happened but I wonder if they will subpoena her butt to court?
I’ve been keeping up with this trial everyday through the chicago news and today the news showed a video of the group 4thecause and I’m guessing the girl is one of the two in this group, but does anybody know which one? This girl is said to be the niece of Sparkle.
The thing that gets me the most is that he needed help long before it got to this. Im sure many of the people around him knew he has/had dealings with underage girls. Did anyone try to help him with this? Why did they look the other way? And even worse…R Kelly was married and had young children himself…most people outside of the industry never even seen or knew he had a wife until she was featured in Essence magazine last year.
@bloggergirlz
thank you..have no clue how I didn’t see your post the first time around.
Sparkle’s lying her ass off. She did not ask to be released, she was dropped. She refused to cooperate unless they allowed her boyfriend, Steve “Stone” Huff to work on her 2nd album, so they dropped her. They tried to extort money from R, they tried threatening him if he did not resign her, but that tour was cancelled. She was dropped from the label twice before her 1st album came out and the final time later before her 2nd album could be started. She has been pissed and plotting every since then and she has had some help. If the real truth comes to light, a lot of people may be in trouble and even more will be hurt. As for people not knowing he had a wife, he does not have to disclose that. What makes fans think they REALLY know everything about their favorite celebrities? Feel what you want, think how you want and say what you want, but none have gotten anywhere near what is really going on here and you won’t.
^^^THANKYOU! RKelly is wrong but as far as i’m concerned Sparkle knew what was going on and turned on him when she didn’t get her way..i’ll be happy when they bust her ass out and find out how she really was the catalyst to this
@AugustTee
My statement in reference to most people not knowing that he had a wife, was merely about the fact that he was a married man with young children(at the time that he was on tape sexing a young girl). What type of person has young children of their own and this is what you’re out doing to another person’s child??? I agree, these artist do not have to disclose their marriage or any of their business to the fans. However, he should have know better especially since he has kids and wouldn’t want anyone to do them like he has been doing these underage girls for years. I wonder how ex-wifey really feels to know that she was married to someone that basically was living not double but multiple lives?
Talk about embarrassing, being married to a grown woman and you out with a flash light looking for the little kiddies….this man gets no sympathy from me whatso-eva