R. Kelly’s former goddaughter made scathing testimony about the R&B legend in court on Thursday — claiming he had sex with her “hundreds of times” when she was underage and forced her to pose as a prostitute to get her to silence.
The now 37-year-old woman, known only as “Jane,” described how Kelly filmed himself performing oral sex on her at his Chicago home when she was 14, on day four of the singer’s federal child pornography case .
She said the disgraced singer gave her champagne, instructed her to call her genitals “14 years old,” and then urinated on her, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Singer R. Kelly wants to leave after appearing at a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in 2019. Antonio Perez/Getty Images
In another video from the time, Kelly was shown giving her money before having sex with her in his wood-paneled jacuzzi room, she testified.
When asked by a prosecutor why the superstar gave her cash, Jane burst into tears on the witness stand.
“Because if someone saw the video or published it for any reason, they would say I was a prostitute,” she said.
Jane testified that the Grammy winner had sex with her “countless times” afterwards, sometimes with other teenage girls whom Kelly solicited for her recruitment.
Two of the other minor victims are later scheduled to testify against Kelly in the trial. The jury is also expected to be shown video footage of the star having sex with a minor.
Prosecutors have claimed the singer paid Jane and her family not to testify in his 2008 child pornography trial. In this case he was eventually acquitted.
Kelly, 55, now faces federal indictment on 13 counts, including charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice.
R. Kelly faces 13 counts of arraignment, including charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images
He was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison in June after being convicted on nine counts, including racketeering and Mann Act violations, in federal court in Brooklyn.
A multitude of victims testified in the 2021 trial, in which prosecutors portrayed Kelly as a “predator” who preyed on his young fans and sexually abused them for decades.