Former girlfriend of R. Kelly testifies that the singer’s manager threatened to kill her
A former girlfriend of R. Kelly wept on the witness stand Thursday as she testified that a Kelly business manager told her in 2007 she should have been killed for causing the R&B star so much trouble by stealing a video from a gym bag full of recordings of Kelly having sex with women and girls.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a superstar singer, faces charges in his hometown of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex. The 55-year-old and co-defendant Derrel McDavid, the former business manager, are also charged with rigging the 2008 trial by threatening witnesses and concealing video evidence.
“He said that I failed [the lie-detector], and that they should have murked me from the beginning,” she testified, using a slang word for killed. She said she took the comment as a threat. She testified she only learned after Kelly filmed himself having sex with Van Allen and Jane that Jane had only been 14 at that time.
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