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KellysBrooklyn federal-court trialare nearly done with their racketeering and sex-crimes case against the R&B singer.
They have called 45 witnesses, 11 of whom are abuse accusers.
Prosecutors finished their direct questioning of Hughes; the defense will start cross-examination Monday morning.
There were a few exceptions.
The colleague, Cheryl Mack, said that she met Kelly in 2005.
Mack, then a talent manager, was in Miami to attend events surrounding MTVs Video Music Awards.
Mack responded that she was a talent agent.
He eventually led them to the back of the restaurant.
That was when he introduced my artist to Mr. Kelly, Mack said.
She sang a song for Mr. Kelly.
Kelly asked the artist to sing another song, and then another.
Let me help you, Kelly told them.
He gave Mack his phone number and told her just keep trying until I answer.
He said she was amazing, Mack recalled.
Mack called Kelly and she and her client traveled to Chicago.
They went to Kellys home studio at his Olympia Fields, Illinois, property.
One of those clients was Precious, an R&B singer from Atlanta.
Mack introduced Precious to Kelly in 2009, when she was 17 years old.
I had a discussion with him about her talent.
She [is] talented, would you be interested in meeting her?
One of Kellys associates paid for their trip.
Precious ended up returning to Chicago and stayed at a hotel near Kellys house, Mack said.
Prosecutors asked Mack whether Precious stopped working for Kelly and whether it was an abrupt split.
Yes, Mack said.
Did you speak to the defendant about why Precious had left?
It was all sudden.
He told me that I need[ed] to come to Chicago, she said.
Everything happened so fast.
He told me that she was trying to file a lawsuit and I needed to pick a team.
Mack traveled to Kellys Olympia Fields home.
Generally, in these situations, people come up missing, Kelly allegedly remarked.
I took it as a threat, Mack testified.
Mack learned that the suit was something along the lines of sexual harassment.
They ultimately moved their discussion into a room at Kellys home with a pool table.
After some time, Kellys former studio manager, Tom Arnold, directed Mack to a car.
She got in but didnt know where they were going.
Arnold drove her to the office of Kellys then-attorney, Ed Gensen.
There was an affidavit on the table, which they asked her to sign.
After she signed the paperwork, Arnold took her to the airport.
Mack and Kelly started working together again in 2013.
Macks then-boss, talent managerDevyne Stephens, wanted to do something different.
Stephens thought they could get Kelly off the bench, performing more frequently than he was.
Mack began working with Kelly through her agency, but Kelly quickly hired Mack to be his executive assistant.
Mack said she coordinated Kellys travel and that of his entourage, including the singers girlfriends.
Mack metJane who testified that Kelly first sexually abused her at age 17 in April 2015.
Jane left Kelly in fall of 2019.
She saw Jane sidle up to Kelly, who was reclining on an ottoman.
I just saw her move in closer.
That was kind of my cue to leave, she said.
Mack said she saw Jane move her head down.
When asked by the judge whether this was near Kellys lap, Mack said, In that area.
That was my exit.
I was very uncomfortable, that wasnt my business.
The next day, Mack was at a McDonalds with Kelly and members of his entourage.
He started berating her for spoiling his stylists surprise birthday party, even pounding the table.
And in that moment, I quit.
Kelly illegally wed Aaliyah when she was just 15, and he was 27, according to trial testimony.
Tiffany, Angelas then-friend, brought her to a party at Kellys apartment in Chicago.
At some point, Kelly went into another room.
One after one, the young ladies would eventually join Kelly.
When Angela entered the room, there were three other young ladies in there.
One was taking off her clothes, and another was removing her shirt.
He asked me to climb on top of him, Angela stated.
I paused for a moment.
I was a little startled.
But Angela ultimately decided to do as he asked me to do.
The defendant asked me to straddle him and to ride him.
Kelly claimed he didnt have a condom; Angela told him that she had one.
After that, I proceeded to put the condom on the gentleman and straddled him.
Before Angela left Kellys apartment, he invited her and Tiffany back.
Angela claimed she hung out with Kelly every day for quite a few years.
They had multiple sexual encounters when she was a minor, she alleged.
She was a backup dancer on one of Kellys tours sometime around 1992 or 1993.
He introduced Angela to Aaliyah on the artists 13th birthday.
Aaliyah was born on January 16, 1979.
He told her that we were going to be her background [singers] as well, Angela said.
Angela alleged that she saw Kelly sexually abuse Aaliyah on his tour bus.
Angela said that she and another young female were goofing around.
Kelly, she said, enjoyed practical jokes.
So Angela and the other female decided to toss some water on him.
They went to the back of his tour bus, to the bedroom.
Angela cracked initiate the door.
I saw Robert and Aaliyah in a sexual situation, she alleged.
It appeared that he had his head in between her legs and was giving her oral sex.
Aaliyah was sitting upright on a seat.
Kelly, she said, was on his knees.
I closed the door abruptly and pushed the girl behind me away from the door.
Angela stated that she did not discuss this with Kelly.
She claimed to have stopped working for him in the mid-1990s.
Alex said that a then-friend,Louis, introduced him to Kelly.
Alex said his first sexual encounter with Kelly took place when Alex was 20 years old.
Alex said that he also had sexual encounters with Kelly.
Kelly did not put on his headphones while these recordings were played.
These headphones would have enabled him to hear the recordings.
This post has been updated throughout.
