R. Kelly Courtroom Hears Claims Of Basketball Court Three-Ways, Duffel Bags Full Of Porn, And Federal Fraud

anthonyjmiccio | June 2, 2008 4:00 am

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Prosecution witness Lisa Van Allen made the boldest claims yet in the R. Kelly trial, claiming that the defendant had three-way sex with him and the trial’s alleged victim multiple times over several years, including romps on R. Kelly’s basketball court, his trailer during the film of his video for “A Woman’s Threat” (oh, the irony!), and the “log-cabin” room where the sex tape at the center of all this was allegedly filmed. She also confessed to stealing a $20,000 Rolex from R. Kelly in 2001 and said that the singer kept a duffel bag full of porn with him at all times. The defense attempted to inspire doubt by noting Allen had relationships with two men who had been found guilty of fraud in federal courts, including Damon Pryor, the “mystery witness” who is probably, sadly, not a midget, but who claims Van Allen told him that a duo named “Chuck and Keith” created the tape.

While she and Pryor were together, Pryor told her “how you interject yourself into a case – that you go at the last minute” with important testimony, she said. Van Allen agreed with [defense lawyer Sam] Adam that Pryor was a “conman,” describing their relationship as “a mistake.”

Adam pointed out that Van Allen had not come forward for nearly five-and-a-half years as a witness against Kelly, suggesting a link between Pryor’s advice and her late emergence as a witness.

But Van Allen denied telling Pryor that the tape at the center of the case was a fake, or that she had told him she planned to extort cash from Kelly. She denied telling a Minnesota woman the same thing, also denying that she knew two men called “Chuck and Keith” had staged the tape at the center of the case to get money from Kelly.

Chuck and Keith? Are they sure they don’t mean Chuck and…Rufus?

Did the prosecution really put up a late-arriving witness with lurid stories and a history of dallying with men convicted of fraud? Do they know how easy it is for a circus like this to inspire reasonable doubt? And…Keith…CHUCK?!

Van Allen: we had three-way sex on R. Kelly’s basketball court [Chicago Sun-Times] R. Kelly’s attorneys paint Lisa Van Allen as thief, extortionist [Chicago Sun-Times] R.Kelly-Trapped In The Closet Chapter 11 [YouTube]

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