Assistant U.S. Aattorney Jason Julien, speaking for the prosecution, told jurors the world knows Kelly by his music, but he “had another side, a hidden side, a dark side” that he “did not allow the world to see for years.”
of coercing five underage women between the ages of 12 and 17 into sexual acts, as well as producing and receiving child pornography—the latest legal battle over allegations of sexual abuse of underage women dating back to the 1990s.
During opening statements of the trial Wednesday, attorney Jennifer Bonjean, who represents Kelly, admitted the singer “stumbled along the way” from “poverty to stardom,” but attacked the federal government for ‘waiting over two decades” to bring the case forward, and is only doing so in a “mob justice climate.”
Kelly, whose real name is Robert Kelly, has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct, including trafficking, producing sexual imagery of minors and creating a “sex cult” of underage women. Five women are expected to take the stand against Kelly in the proceedings in Chicago, including one witness who was allegedly involved in the creation of a sex tape when she was underaged and then allegedly paid off by Kelly to keep quiet when he faced trial over child pornography charges in 2008.
Along with McDavid, another of Kelly’s former employees, Milton Brown, is also listed as a co-defendant, charged with receiving child pornography.Allegations of sexual abuse started nearly 30 years ago, when the Grammy-Award-winning singer was rising to international fame. The first lawsuit came in 1996, when his ex-wife Tiffany Hawkins alleged Kelly had sex with her five years earlier when she was 15 and he was 24.
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