Prosecution star witness Lisa Van Allen and her boyfriend Yul Brown (left) arrive for court.
(Brian Jackson/Sun-Times)

Lisa Van Allen, the prosecution’s star witness in the ongoing R. Kelly trial told a packed courtroom today that she participated in a threesome with R. Kelly and a then 13-year-old girl on Kelly’s private basketball court.

    Van Allen said she had met R. Kelly at the video shoot for “Home Alone,” in which she appeared. Kelly’s cousin, “Blacky” invited her to join Kelly in Kelly’s trailer, she said. She talked with Kelly and ended up “having intercourse” with him in the trailer, she said. She was 17 at the time, she said.

    The pair exchanged numbers and Van Allen soon visited Kelly in Chicago, eventually giving up her job in Atlanta to be with him full time. Kelly paid for her to stay in hotels and she spent most of her time with him at the studio.

    In late 1998, she testified, 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, she said. That’s the same room he’s alleged to have filmed the tape in this case. Kelly told her the alleged victim was 16, she said. (Source)

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