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Chicago, IL — The defense teams in the R. Kelly federal trial at Dirksen U.S. Courthouse rested on Friday following three days of testimony from the disgraced singer’s former business manager and co-defendant. On Derrel McDavid’s third day on the stand on Friday, he faced cross examination from the government …

Chicago, IL — Settling sexual misconduct civil lawsuits became the “cost of doing business,” Derrel McDavid, R. Kelly’s former business manager and co-defendant in the disgraced singer’s federal child pornography trial at Dirksen U.S Courthouse, testified on Wednesday. The CPA-turned-business-manager for R. Kelly began working with the singer in the …

Chicago, IL — The defense lawyers for R. Kelly and co-defendants Derrel McDavid and Milton “June” Brown began presenting their cases Thursday in the singer’s federal child pornography trial at Dirksen U.S. courthouse. But before calling their first witnesses, the defendants voiced their decisions on whether they planned to testify …

Chicago, IL — Two more survivors alleged R. Kelly engaged them in sexual acts when they were underage as the R. Kelly federal child pornography trial in Chicago entered its third week at Dirksen U.S. courthouse on Monday. While one accuser appeared defiant and the other timid as they recounted …

Chicago, IL — Federal prosecutors rested their case in the R. Kelly child pornography trial at Dirksen U.S. courthouse on Tuesday following testimony from its final accuser, who testified the disgraced singer engaged her in sexual acts while she was a minor. Appearing under the pseudonym “Nia,” who is now …

Chicago, IL — A large dose of courtroom drama closed out the second week of R. Kelly’s federal child pornography trial in Chicago at Dirksen U.S. courthouse with a witness who didn’t want to return to the stand for further cross examination, testimony from a man who claimed he was …

Chicago, IL — Lisa Van Allen, one of R. Kelly’s former girlfriends who became romantically involved with the singer in 1998, testified on Thursday that she was told by one of the singer’s associates that they should’ve killed her over a sex tape she took from Kelly. Van Allen was …

Chicago, IL —Charles Freeman claimed R. Kelly and his team made a verbal agreement to pay him $1 million to secure videos of the singer allegedly sexually assaulting a minor during his testimony on Tuesday and detailed a timeline and plan on how he claimed he did so during R. …

Jurors in R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago heard testimony from a fixer and lie detector test administrator Tuesday, Aug. 23, as prosecutors attempted to show how the disgraced singer and his associates allegedly tried to cover up and subvert previous sexual assault and child pornography allegations and investigations. As …

Chicago, IL — R. Kelly’s former goddaughter testified that she had sex with the disgraced singer for the first time when she was 15, and that they had sex “hundreds” of times, sometimes with other underage girls. The goddaughter, now 37 and testifying at Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago Thursday …