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TW: This post contains graphic details of sexual assault and domestic violence.
After luring a 17-year-old into his orbit under false pretenses of nurturing her music career,R.
I was 17, the woman said, bursting into tears shortly before she detailed her diagnosis.
A member of his entourage had given her a wristband that got her closer to the stage.
She wound up remaining in a relationship with Kelly for five years, she said.
It said Rob and had a number.
The then-teen wound up giving her mother the piece of paper.
In the days following the show, she realized she had the wrong phone number.
She went into her moms phone, and Kellys number was there.
The two had exchanged texts.
The alleged victim, who now had the right phone number, started communicating with Kelly directly.
He invited her to a hotel near Orlando to audition a few days after the concert.
He had asked me to sit on his lap.
I asked him if he was sure.
He said yes, she recalled.
Kelly asked for a kiss, she testified.
Kelly allegedly said that before the audition, he needed to come.
She rebuffed his entreaties but wound up having to walk back and forth in her panties and a bra.
Eventually, he engaged in some oral contact with her buttocks, she alleged.
There was a knock on the door.
He was very anxious and scared.
After he looked through the peephole, he said, Are you 18?
There does not appear to be any indication that Kelly knew her true age at the time.
He told her to go to the bathroom and get dressed and not to leave the restroom.
Kelly allegedly spoke to the officers, and she exited the restroom.
They told her that her parents had been looking for her but couldnt get in touch.
I had to call my parents in front of them and let them know I was okay.
She showed the officers her ID, which would have said she was 17 years old.
He made me crawl back and forth during their encounters, the woman said.
Kelly, who would ejaculate on her face, used that as a tool of shame, she alleged.
There would be times when he would make me leave it on my face, she said.
Once, after doing that, he told me not to wash it off and to let it harden.
He then called an associate into the room and had an entire conversation with her.
I recall them laughing, and I felt very much humiliated, she claimed.
Later, in the summer of 2015 when she was in Chicago, she started to feel physically unwell.
Every single time we would have vaginal penetration, I would have discomfort, she said.
Initially, he would joke and say its just because hes too big size-wise.
It got worse … it got to the point where I physically couldnt even walk.
Kelly had a female associate, identified in court as Juice, take her to a doctor.
She said that I had contracted an STD herpes, she said of the doctor.
She was prescribed medications, and Juice took her to a pharmacy in downtown Chicago to pick them up.
I was devastated, she said.
I had told him, and he was agitated and said, You could have gotten that from anyone.
The prosecutor asked whether Kelly had ever disclosed a herpes diagnosis.
He never did, she recalled.
Whenever she would have an outbreak, he would usually make, like, a joke.
Everybody has it, no big deal, she recalled him allegedly saying.
She continued to endure outbreaks.
I think your p- - -y is broken, she alleged Kelly had said.
He slapped me in my face with an open palm, and he walked away, she said.
She tried to avoid the van they had come to the park in.
Eventually, Kelly came up to her in a conciliatory manner.
He gave me a kiss and said we would figure this out.
Kelly said she would need to be homeschooled, and they convinced her parents to let her do so.
When they agreed, she packed her suitcases and returned to Illinois.
In 2015, the defendant had introduced me to what he called chastising spanking, she said.
The woman learned what Kelly meant by chastising, in Atlanta in 2015.
He said that it was just a spanking to help me remember [the rules], she said.
He would leave bruises, and sometimes it would make my skin tear.
Kelly, she alleged, was hitting her with an open palm and a closed fist.
He went into his closet and grabbed an Air Force 1.
He continued to hit me until I finally broke.
He hit me all over with the shoe.
She tried to fight back but couldnt.
Prosecutors asked about her size and Kellys.
Im four-11; I was about 98 pounds, she said.
In 2017, she got pregnant.
Kelly did not want her to have the baby.
He had expressed that he still wanted me to keep my body tight, she remembered him allegedly commenting.
Kelly told her he wanted to start a family after he got rid of his other girlfriends.
The prosecution asked whether she had gotten an abortion.
One of Kellys assistants made the appointment and drove her there, she said.
The prosecution then asked whether she had wanted to get an abortion.
He said that I would be meeting with somebody by the name of Nephew, she continued.
He had mentioned Nephew a few times, she recalled.
He said that he had been grooming Nephew since he was young.
In the room, Kelly directed how the woman and Nephew should engage in sexual contact.
Kelly was naked and recording their interaction, she testified.
Asked if she wanted to have an encounter with Nephew, she said never.
It was a punishment, she said.
If she hadnt, I would probably be left somewhere for a long time.
There were a few occasions when defendant made us be intimate, she said of Nephew.
The woman also described how Kelly had allegedly used psychological manipulation to keep the girlfriends close to him.
The woman said that her parents questions eventually led to her being prohibited from communicating with them.
Prosecutors asked whether she knew aboutSurviving R. Kelly, the documentary series chronicling the many allegations against him.
Kelly told his girlfriends that everything was false and that he had contacted his attorneys.
He also had them practice responding to questions the media might pose to them.
The woman then described her appearance on TV as part ofGayle Kings March 2019 interview with Kelly.
Were you truthful when you spoke to Gayle King?
I was not, she said.
In the summer of 2019, the woman said she stopped living with Kelly for a period.
Kelly wasarrested in Julyof that year on federal racketeering and sex-crimes charges.
The woman said she left Kelly in October 2019.
None, she replied.
His questions suggested that the womans parents had motives behind letting her spend time with the singer.
You eventually got onstage, is that correct?
You didnt go onstage and twerk on the speaker?
I danced on the speaker, yes, she said.
What kind of dancing?
I was moving my body just like everybody else, she said.
But when you were moving your body just like everybody else, you were twerking, werent you?
he said, his voice growing louder.
Yes, I was, she said.
One included a Bluetooth dildo?
That is correct, she said.
The feature of this dildo was that when it was in use, it would sync to his music?
She replied in the affirmative but said Kelly did not want to endorse that idea.
He told her parents to give him a proposal, she said.
Cannick also brought up the letters to maintain that she had written about her affection for Kelly.
In one letter to her parents, she wrote: I will forever be deeply in love with Robert … She also told them that they pushed her into interactions with Kelly.
You really made me feel like a ho and a prostitute, she also wrote.
You wanted me to be alone with him.
The woman testified that other girlfriends made me write those letters at Kellys direction.
Kelly told me exactly what to write.
The letters, she was told, would go to his attorney and never see the light of day.
This story is developing and will be updated accordingly.
