R. Kelly controlled his young friends so much, that he had a list of “Rob’s rules” that dictated that they should ask permission to do most things and were forbidden to leave certain rooms of his Chicago mansion. , as his former personal assistant told Brooklyn. federal court Friday.
Anthony Navarro, who worked for the crooner “Bump n ‘Grind” between 2007 and 2009, was asked to enforce the rules, which also prevented him from talking to any of the women while transporting them to the residence in a Lamborghini and other -finishing cars.
“The things you had to do were a little awkward … it was almost like the ‘Twilight Zone,’ you walked in the door and it was like a different world, just a weird place,” Navarro said on the third day of the Trial Process. sex crimes and 54-year-old singer, singer.
While working with Kelly, he allegedly escorted his teenage friends to designated rooms at the Olympia Fields mansion and then made sure they didn’t leave, said Navarro, who said he also worked for Taylor Swift, Jay-Z and Kanye. West.
“If they’re not where they should be, you should tell Rob or a manager,” Navarro said. “They weren’t supposed to be wandering around, or getting out of the room.”
But as he was reviewing footage from the surveillance camera, he once saw two teenagers jump a fence at home and run in an apparent attempt to escape.
“They looked very young,” Navarro said. “I thought they were like middle-aged teenagers.”
Navarro also saw Kelly’s associates hand out the singer’s phone number to the girls in the audience at shows or malls and restaurants, he said.
“They told us not to talk to any of the females,” she said. “Sometimes they got envelopes of money when they left.”
Navarro was Kelly’s assistant for the same period of time he was accused of sexually assaulting Jerhonda Pace when he was 16 and he 42.