Singer R. Kelly's former business manager told jurors Wednesday he believed the singer's denials of sexual misconduct that emerged against his boss, adding that he came to understand that fending off false claims was a cost of doing business for a superstar.
Derrell McDavid, a co-defendant at Kelly's child pornography and trial-fixing trial in federal court in Chicago, said he saw no early signs Kelly sought minors for sex, blaming Kelly enemies and those hoping to profit off his fame for concocting the allegations.
McDavid told jurors he had seen the prosecution's star witness - referred to by the pseudonym “Jane” at the current trial - when she was a minor hanging around Kelly's studio in the late 1990s. He said Kelly angrily denied rumors that he was sexually abusing Jane, who Kelly described as his god daughter.McDavid spoke in a dry, matter-of-fact manner from the witness stand for more than four hours Wednesday.
This federal trial in Kelly's hometown of Chicago follows a separate federal trial in New York, where the 55-year-old Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in June. McDavid said the lesson he learned from one litigator who represented Kelly in an early lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct was that it's better for stars to settle suits - even if settling them makes them appear guilty.
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