Presumably, R. Kelly looked like Jerry Lee Lewis, a musician who married for 13 years

NEW YORK – A third Jane Doe, identified as Stephanie, said Thursday R. Kelly he began having sex with her during the “hardest time of his life” when he was 17, at federal judges against the singer.

Stephanie, now 39, said she met Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, when she was 16 in what was known as the “Rock ‘n’ Roll” McDonalds in Chicago during the summer 1998. She was there for a double date with her boyfriend and two friends. Under direct examination, she told U.S. Attorney Nadia Shihata’s lawyer that she was alone at the cash register when one of Kelly’s assistants approached her.

In his testimony in the Federal Court building in Brooklyn, he said he asked her age and if she knew who R. Kelly was. When she said yes, he pointed at her and saw that the singer, who was 32 at the time, was staring at her.

“He gave me a phone number and said it was Robert Kelly’s phone number,” he said in the room. Stephanie went back to her friends and boyfriends at the time, and they all laughed when she told them what happened, she said. Then he tossed the piece of paper with his number. “I didn’t intend to call him,” he said.

Stephanie stated that the following summer she worked as a barista at a downtown Chicago hotel and learned of an event Kelly would attend at the Nike store near her workplace. He decided to go see if he remembered her and ask her if she would hear her friend sing.

In her testimony, she said that when she arrived at the store, Kelly was leaving. She asked him if he remembered her and he said yes. She told him she wanted to ask him a question and he told her to go with him to his car. He sat in the passenger seat and asked about his friend singing for him.

“He said, yeah, he thought he could fix it, but he’d also like to meet me and he’d also like to hug me and he’d be fine with that?” Stephanie remembered. He said he agreed and they started making plans to meet.

When prosecutors asked her what was going on in her life at the time, Stephanie said she had suffered hardships, including her sexual trauma from her family, her first boss and the men on the street.

“It was the hardest moment of my life,” he said. “I was very vulnerable.”

A week or so after meeting at the Nike store, he said, he took a bus to his studio, as they had previously commented. After ringing the intercom and escorting her to the studio, she waited hours for Kelly to join her.

When he finally arrived, Stephanie said, sat down next to him, put his head on his shoulder, and said, “Sorry it took so long.” He said they talked a bit and had sex that day.

Stephanie stated that during her first or second time in the studio, she told him she was 17 years old. While he believed this meant the end of their relationship, he said he told her he was “okay.”

Kelly wanted him to be called “father.” He said their relationship lasted about six months and saw him six to eight times a month, mostly in the studio. He said he “orchestrated” his encounters, telling him to make certain sounds or to stay in certain positions. There were times when he told her to undress and stay in a certain position “for hours” while she “waited for him to come and make his way.”

He said it was “humiliating.”

In the Brooklyn trial, Kelly faces federal charges of cheating and violating the Mann Act, which prohibits taking a minor through state lines for prostitution. He has denied the charges.

Stephanie told the room that from the early years of their relationship, when she was 17, Kelly was regularly filmed having sex with her, saying the first time she started filming she didn’t ask, but she said he. he picked her up for filming.

“I was very scared,” he said. “I felt like I had no choice.”

During their relationship, she said she had two parts: one pleasant and charming and the other controlling and intimidating. He told Shihata that it was difficult to determine what exactly triggered him.

“He would raise his voice towards me and could put the fear of God on me very quickly,” he declared.

At one point in their relationship, he said, he gave her $ 300 to get a dress similar to actress Sharon Stone. He left her to go shopping and said he would pick her up when he was done. Stephanie finished early and decided to stay outside and take a cigarette while she waited for him. When he got up and saw her smoking, he said he put it in her face and yelled at her “don’t do this shit again, especially in front of me.” She said she was “terrified.”

Stephanie said she once went to the Houston restaurant to eat with Kelly and two local rappers. She was not allowed to talk to rappers while eating because Kelly was not allowed to talk to other men. During the meal, he said, he started talking randomly about why he should be able to go out with minors.

“He mentioned that” he likes young girls and that people do a great thing about it. Look even at Jerry Lee Lewis, he’s a genius and I’m a genius. We should be allowed to do what we want. Look at what we give to the world. ”Lewis is a musician who married his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, in 1957. Brown later divorced Lewis, alleging that she had been“ subjected to everything types of physical and mental problems. abuse imaginable “.

Stephanie also testified about a case when the two left one of their basketball games with two others in the car. He asked her to give him oral sex in the car, which he said was “disgusting” because he was sweaty from playing. He said he tried to do so quietly as there were others in the vehicle. He told her to make noise, which caught the person’s attention in the passenger seat. She said she was “embarrassed.”

Their relationship ended shortly after he and a friend were paid to take him on a trip to Orlando, Florida, for Stephanie’s 18th birthday in October 1999. He said they were staying on a rental property, of which no they were allowed to go out. They didn’t have a car either. Stephanie didn’t see him until his last day in Orlando. Kelly just picked up Stephanie in a sports car, took her to her studio, and had her have oral sex with him. She said she was “simply humiliated” and didn’t want to be recorded.

He said he cried in the car when he returned to the rental, but he didn’t know how to deal with it.

“I felt worn out, humiliated and degraded,” he told the court. “I didn’t want to be abused anymore.”

She said she continued her relationship with him in hopes of recovering and destroying the videos Kelly recorded of the two having sex. In both November and December, she called him and asked if they could destroy them together, and he said he could come to the studio so they could discuss it. Stephanie stated that she was then clear that she had no intention of destroying the tapes.

“It was the last time I talked to him,” he said.

Defense attorney Nicole Blank Becker questioned Stephanie during cross-examination. Becker painted the relationship as a normal adult relationship, even though Stephanie was 17 and Kelly was 32 at the time.

“Most of the time you went to him, didn’t you?” Becker asked, adding that Stephanie was likely to drive to see Kelly. Stephanie replied that she could not drive to see Kelly at that time because she was not old enough to have a license.

Becker’s questions suggested that Stephanie’s guilt came down to the position she was in with Kelly: “You had a chance to pick him up every time he called, right?” and “You’re intimate because you wanted to be, right?”

Stephanie’s testimony on the 7th day of the trial ended with a grim note when Shihata, the prosecutor, re-examined the witness.

When Shihata asked her why Stephanie would never forget the sexual abuse she says she endured at the hands of Kelly, she broke down in tears. “Because it was the lowest moment of my life. I have never been treated like this before or after. He humiliated me. It degraded me. It scared me. I will never forget the way he treated me. ”

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