The prosecution’s star witness in the R. Kelly trial told the jury on Monday that R. Kelly carried a duffel bag full of explicit videotapes wherever he went.
Lisa Van Allen – now 27 and pregnant with her second child – was 17-years-old when she met and began having sexual relations with the singer. Van Allen testified that Kelly once videotaped her encounter with Kelly and the then 13-year-old girl who is at the center of the charges against Kelly.
She recalled Kelly once stopped the camcorder when she began to cry during an encounter between just the two of them. “He got upset and said he couldn’t watch that. He couldn’t do anything with that, with me crying. He stopped the camera,” Van Allen said.
Van Allen said Kelly took the tapes everywhere with him – to the basketball gym, the studio, even the barbershop. “Wherever he was at, the [duffel] bag would follow,” Van Allen said.
Van Allen claimed Kelly’s business manager, Derrel McDavid, paid her and another man $20,000 each for the return of a sex tape.
Van Allen testified she remembered her childhood friend in the videotape, saying she looked “just exactly how I remember her” – even remembering her breasts. (Source)
