Prosecutors want a New York City jury at the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial to hear profane video & audio recordings they say demonstrate how he threatened his victims with violence.
In this courtroom artist's sketch made from a video screen monitor of a Brooklyn courtroom, defendant R. Kelly, left, listens during the opening day of his trial on Aug. 18, 2021 in New York.sex-trafficking trial to hear profane video and audio recordings they say demonstrate how he threatened his victims with violence.
“You better not ever … take from me again or I will be in Florida and something will happen to you,” he says. “You understand what I’m telling you?”Prosecutors had planned to call the second woman as a witness. But they decided against it after she “started to have panic attacks and appeared to have an emotional breakdown” while listening to the tape in preparation for her testimony, the filing says.
Kelly, now 54, has pleaded not guilty to racketeering and other charges accusing him of sexually abusing several women, girls and boys during the course of his 30-year singing career. He has vehemently denied the charges, claiming that the women were groupies who wanted to take advantage of his fame and fortune achieved through hits like “I Believe Can Fly.”
The request came a day after another witness testified she saw Kelly in a “sexual situation” with R&B phenom Aaliyah around 1993, when she was only 13 or 14. The woman also told the jury that Kelly had sex with her when she was 15 — the latest in a series of accusers who say he sexually exploited them when they were underage.
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