During the second week of his sex-trafficking trial, prosecutors tried to paint R. Kelly as a man-child control freak and a compulsive sex offender who exploited vulnerable victims. Defense lawyers sought to portray the accusers as lying opportunists.
they sought his help launching their music careers, or those of others. But Kelly, they said, only feigned interest.One told the jury Kelly invited her and a friend to his studio to hear the friend sing. But he quickly lost patience because “he wasn’t thrilled about my mom being with us,” she said.
Asked for input, Kelly “said that he did like it and that it was cute and that it wasn’t too grown or too sexy,” she said. Arnold was ordered to pull the trip off on short notice, booking hotel rooms, arranging transportation and hiring a VIP tour guide for the theme park. He succeeded at the first two tasks. He ran into a glitch on the third.
The woman testified that her parents had at first encouraged her relationship with Kelly and even pitched ideas for their own business ventures with him. She conceded on cross-examination that one idea was to market an R. Kelly-themed sex toy. Even for him, that went too far, she said.A complication for the woman was that, well before the trial,where she expressed her devotion to Kelly and disavowed her parents. She called her father “a manipulative liar” for suggesting she’d been brainwashed.
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