Prosecutors want a New York City jury in R. Kelly’s sex trafficking trial to hear profane video and audio recordings that say they demonstrate how he threatened his victims with violence.
In one of the 2008 tapes, an enraged Kelly can be heard accusing an unidentified woman of lying to him before he began assaulting her, according to a court document filed Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court.
“If you lie to me, I’ll miss you,” Kelly says.
The R&B star singer is caught on another recording denouncing a second Florida woman, identified as a “Jane Doe” who accused him of stealing a Rolex watch from her, according to the file.
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In this June 26, 2019 archive photo, R&B singer R. Kelly from downtown arrives at the Leighton Criminal Court building to report sex-related crimes in Chicago.
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“You better not take me out again … or I’ll be in Florida and something will happen to you,” he says. “Do you understand what I’m telling you?”
Prosecutors planned to call the second woman as a witness. But they decided against it after she “started having panic attacks and appeared to have an emotional breakup” while listening to her witness’s preparation tape, according to the file.
Defendant presumed to have “cameras everywhere” in his Chicago studio and elsewhere where he used to monitor his victims, he adds.
Kelly, now 54, has pleaded guilty to mock-ups and other charges accusing her of sexually abusing several women, girls and boys during her 30-year singing career. He has vehemently denied the charges, claiming that the women were groups who wanted to take advantage of their fame and fortune achieved with hits like “I Believe Can Fly”.
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The judge indicated Tuesday that he would grant the government’s request to use the tapes as evidence at the trial, which began Aug. 18. There was no immediate response to a message asking for comments from Kelly’s defense team.
The request came a day after another witness testified that he saw Kelly in a “sexual situation” with the R&B Aaliyah phenomenon around 1993, when he was only 13 or 14 years old. The woman also told the jury that Kelly had sex with her when she was 15 – the latest in a series of accusers claiming she sexually exploited them when they were minors.
The woman – a former Kelly backup interpreter who said she did not use her real name – described opening a door on Kelly’s tour bus to find him kneeling in front of Aaliyah and appearing. to practice oral sex on the girl. He said he closed the door immediately and left without ever talking to Kelly about the meeting.
The jury had previously heard a former Kelly employee testify how two false identifications were used to pave the way for Kelly to marry Aaliyah after he began having sex with her and believed she had become pregnant. A marriage license that came to light falsely listed her age as 18 years old; Kelly was 27 at the time.
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Prosecutors say Kelly wanted to use the marriage, which was later annulled, to protect herself from criminal charges related to having sex with a minor and preventing her from testifying against him.
Aaliyah, who was called Aaliyah Dana Haughton, worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” He died in a plane crash in 2001 at the age of 22.