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.
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While post-trial commentary has sweated R. Kelly's fame, the Little Man defense, and other colorful parts of the recently concluded circus, jurors in the six-years-in-the-running child pornography trial claim that the reasonable doubt (or "grayness," as one juror described it) that resulted in their "not guilty" verdict revolved around the identity of the girl in the video, not as to whether Chuck and Keith had grafted Kelly's head onto another fellow's watersports so Stephanie "Sparkle" Edwards and her minions could tarnish Kells' good name. Had the alleged victim or her parents corroborated her identity in the video, or had three family members not testified for the defense, the case may have had a very different outcome, mole or no mole.
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