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PrintableThe Chicago Sun Times keep acting as if they hit a bombshell or something when the defense says something.
In one hand I can see why though because the aunt was a cop and she failed to report it to authorities. She said it was a private matter. The uncle who testify said there were times he couldn't remember seeing it but insists that his niece was on the tape. And this is when the judge told the both of them (and the ex-friend) that the video was fake. 
Well it won't be long until past indiscretions allegedly made by R. Kelly make it to the stand to send the trial into more chaos. | |
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Timmy84 said: Oh shit, we finally got a name to the girl - ROSHONA LANDFAIR:
REUTERS: Witness says R. Kelly, girl were in sex tape By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - R&B superstar R. Kelly and a girl who described him as her godfather and was about 13 or 14 are the two people on a pornographic tape Kelly is accused of making, the girl's former best friend testified on Wednesday. Simha Jamison, now 24, said in the second full day of the Grammy Award-winning artist's trial that she recognized her friend Roshona Landfair on the videotape from her face and from a "mullet" haircut the two girls had gotten together. "I saw (the tape) in late February 2002," said Jamison, a Chicago hair stylist. "Who did you believe was the female on that tape?" asked prosecutor Shauna Boliker of the Cook County state's attorney's office. "I believed it was my best friend, Roshona," she replied. And the man on the tape, which Jamison was shown again on Wednesday before court? "Her godfather, R. Kelly," she said, explaining that's how Roshona had introduced the singer. Kelly is charged with 14 counts of videotaping, producing or soliciting child pornography with a 26-minute tape featuring oral sex, masturbation and other explicit acts. If convicted of all charges, the 41-year-old performer, whose given name is Robert Kelly, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. His lawyers said earlier in the trial that the two people on the tape are not Kelly or the girl, identified by prosecutors earlier in court as Landfair, now in her 20s. She also contends she is not on the tape and has refused to testify for the prosecution. Jamison said Kelly would give Landfair "not less that $100 ... no more than $500" in cash to go shopping. They had met Kelly at Hoops, a basketball gym in Chicago, accompanied by Landfair's parents when the girls were "about 12," she said. She said she estimated Roshona's age on the tape at 13 or 14. Prosecutors have said the tape was made between January 1998 and November 2000, when the girl was 13 or 14. Jamison said the two girls would do "nothing" on a dozen visits to Kelly's Chicago studio, "Tracks," while he did "recording stuff." Landfair would often stay on after Jamison went home, she added. The two girls later broke off their friendship, she said, though she did not explain why. Jamison also identified photos of Kelly's since-sold Chicago house and its log-cabin style sauna room where prosecutors say the tape was made, and which is a setting visible on the video. Despite the charges lodged against him six years ago, Kelly has earned millions from concert tours and album sales while free on bond. After early 1990s hits such as "Sex Me" and "Bump n' Grind," Kelly won three Grammy Awards for his 1996 single "I Believe I Can Fly," and has scored 20 other Grammy nominations. (Writing by Michael Conlon; editing by Peter Bohan and Vicki Allen) Her identity has been known for quite some time; since MTV aired the special When The Gavel Drops some years ago to be more precise. Roshona was apart of a UK-based, inspirational group around the time the sex tape was filmed, that went by the name 4 The Cause. They had a feasible hit with a cover of Ben E. King's Stand By Me. The MTV special made reference of Roshona being the neice of Sparkle, as well as her participation in the group. A brief snippet of their music video was played with her face blurred to avoid any potential lawsuits. The original video can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/wa...lmDV49NAng Roshona is the girl with the hat, blue top and white pants. Her stage name was known as Shorty. Here's an added promotional picture for the group with Roshona/Shorty seated on the right:  
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GoActive said: Timmy84 said: Oh shit, we finally got a name to the girl - ROSHONA LANDFAIR:
REUTERS: Witness says R. Kelly, girl were in sex tape By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - R&B superstar R. Kelly and a girl who described him as her godfather and was about 13 or 14 are the two people on a pornographic tape Kelly is accused of making, the girl's former best friend testified on Wednesday. Simha Jamison, now 24, said in the second full day of the Grammy Award-winning artist's trial that she recognized her friend Roshona Landfair on the videotape from her face and from a "mullet" haircut the two girls had gotten together. "I saw (the tape) in late February 2002," said Jamison, a Chicago hair stylist. "Who did you believe was the female on that tape?" asked prosecutor Shauna Boliker of the Cook County state's attorney's office. "I believed it was my best friend, Roshona," she replied. And the man on the tape, which Jamison was shown again on Wednesday before court? "Her godfather, R. Kelly," she said, explaining that's how Roshona had introduced the singer. Kelly is charged with 14 counts of videotaping, producing or soliciting child pornography with a 26-minute tape featuring oral sex, masturbation and other explicit acts. If convicted of all charges, the 41-year-old performer, whose given name is Robert Kelly, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. His lawyers said earlier in the trial that the two people on the tape are not Kelly or the girl, identified by prosecutors earlier in court as Landfair, now in her 20s. She also contends she is not on the tape and has refused to testify for the prosecution. Jamison said Kelly would give Landfair "not less that $100 ... no more than $500" in cash to go shopping. They had met Kelly at Hoops, a basketball gym in Chicago, accompanied by Landfair's parents when the girls were "about 12," she said. She said she estimated Roshona's age on the tape at 13 or 14. Prosecutors have said the tape was made between January 1998 and November 2000, when the girl was 13 or 14. Jamison said the two girls would do "nothing" on a dozen visits to Kelly's Chicago studio, "Tracks," while he did "recording stuff." Landfair would often stay on after Jamison went home, she added. The two girls later broke off their friendship, she said, though she did not explain why. Jamison also identified photos of Kelly's since-sold Chicago house and its log-cabin style sauna room where prosecutors say the tape was made, and which is a setting visible on the video. Despite the charges lodged against him six years ago, Kelly has earned millions from concert tours and album sales while free on bond. After early 1990s hits such as "Sex Me" and "Bump n' Grind," Kelly won three Grammy Awards for his 1996 single "I Believe I Can Fly," and has scored 20 other Grammy nominations. (Writing by Michael Conlon; editing by Peter Bohan and Vicki Allen) Her identity has been known for quite some time; since MTV aired the special When The Gavel Drops some years ago to be more precise. Roshona was apart of a UK-based, inspirational group around the time the sex tape was filmed, that went by the name 4 The Cause. They had a feasible hit with a cover of Ben E. King's Stand By Me. The MTV special made reference of Roshona being the neice of Sparkle, as well as her participation in the group. A brief snippet of their music video was played with her face blurred to avoid any potential lawsuits. The original video can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/wa...lmDV49NAng Roshona is the girl with the hat, blue top and white pants. Her stage name was known as Shorty. Here's an added promotional picture for the group with Roshona/Shorty seated on the right: Thanks so much for that!  Yeah I almost forgot about that and I saw the MTV documentary on it. | |
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Timmy84 said: SCNDLS said: For real  But don't forget that the girl on the tape is Sparkle's niece, who was working with AND fucking Kelly at the time. So it's conceivable that the girl and her lil friends could be around. In theory. . .
But that's his ass right thurr. . . let's hope 
[Edited 5/21/08 14:22pm] I actually think Sparkle was as guilty to let her niece fuck around with R. Kelly. The reason the girl won't testify is because she feels that the sex was consensual and he's still sending her and her parents - allegedly - money just so they could keep "denying" that she was on the tape if the girl knew how she and Rob looked back then. I bet the defense will ask about why she knew too much and why didn't she tell authorities BACK THEN, she'll probably say Robert paid her to shut up too. And also ask if she saw R. Kelly's supposed mole that is supposed to determine whether or not Sylvester was on the tape. I dunno cuz I've always heard that Sparkle cooperated from the beginning and may have provided the police with the videotape that started all of this. At least that's what I heard. . . | |
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Timmy84 said: OMG, I love this girl:
Jamison remained insistent under tough cross-examination later in the day from defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. Adam said the reason the alleged victim never told the witness she was having a sexual relationship with Kelly was because there wasn't one and "because it's not her on the tape." "Are you asking or telling me?" Jamison shot back. During the cross-examination, the defense also revealed their strategy may be to suggest Kelly's image was computer-generated. "Something could have been done to put a different head on that body," Adam said. He also referred to movies where characters had been digitally altered. 
OH NOW THEY WANNA SAY HIS FACE WAS DIGITALLY ALTERED!?! Which is it? A mole or a computer-generated image?!  So Rrrrrruh's defense now is: "CGI muthafucka, CGI!!!"  Nice try dude. | |
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..and you know what, while probably all of you have seen the tape...I never have. I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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SCNDLS said: Timmy84 said: I actually think Sparkle was as guilty to let her niece fuck around with R. Kelly. The reason the girl won't testify is because she feels that the sex was consensual and he's still sending her and her parents - allegedly - money just so they could keep "denying" that she was on the tape if the girl knew how she and Rob looked back then. I bet the defense will ask about why she knew too much and why didn't she tell authorities BACK THEN, she'll probably say Robert paid her to shut up too. And also ask if she saw R. Kelly's supposed mole that is supposed to determine whether or not Sylvester was on the tape. I dunno cuz I've always heard that Sparkle cooperated from the beginning and may have provided the police with the videotape that started all of this. At least that's what I heard. . . That could be the case. Today, the defense says the reason why the girl's family didn't report it to authorities was because they were trying to sue Kells after he terminated Sparkle's contract after her album tanked, lol.The family that testified contends still that it was a deeply painful and personal matter because the girl's parents refused to comply and I guess because they were scared of a family rift they decided not to send the video. So the defense was like "so you know the tape was FAKE, AH-HA!" Now the whole thing is fake! | |
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missfee said: ..and you know what, while probably all of you have seen the tape...I never have.
I haven't either but I saw screenshots of Robert eating a woman's ass from the tape (yes I said WOMAN meaning grown up) and of course TV specials kept showing parts of the video. | |
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SCNDLS said: Timmy84 said: OMG, I love this girl:
Jamison remained insistent under tough cross-examination later in the day from defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. Adam said the reason the alleged victim never told the witness she was having a sexual relationship with Kelly was because there wasn't one and "because it's not her on the tape." "Are you asking or telling me?" Jamison shot back. During the cross-examination, the defense also revealed their strategy may be to suggest Kelly's image was computer-generated. "Something could have been done to put a different head on that body," Adam said. He also referred to movies where characters had been digitally altered.
OH NOW THEY WANNA SAY HIS FACE WAS DIGITALLY ALTERED!?! Which is it? A mole or a computer-generated image?! So Rrrrrruh's defense now is: "CGI muthafucka, CGI!!!" Nice try dude. Pretty much. | |
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GoActive said: Timmy84 said: Oh shit, we finally got a name to the girl - ROSHONA LANDFAIR:
REUTERS: Witness says R. Kelly, girl were in sex tape By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - R&B superstar R. Kelly and a girl who described him as her godfather and was about 13 or 14 are the two people on a pornographic tape Kelly is accused of making, the girl's former best friend testified on Wednesday. Simha Jamison, now 24, said in the second full day of the Grammy Award-winning artist's trial that she recognized her friend Roshona Landfair on the videotape from her face and from a "mullet" haircut the two girls had gotten together. "I saw (the tape) in late February 2002," said Jamison, a Chicago hair stylist. "Who did you believe was the female on that tape?" asked prosecutor Shauna Boliker of the Cook County state's attorney's office. "I believed it was my best friend, Roshona," she replied. And the man on the tape, which Jamison was shown again on Wednesday before court? "Her godfather, R. Kelly," she said, explaining that's how Roshona had introduced the singer. Kelly is charged with 14 counts of videotaping, producing or soliciting child pornography with a 26-minute tape featuring oral sex, masturbation and other explicit acts. If convicted of all charges, the 41-year-old performer, whose given name is Robert Kelly, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. His lawyers said earlier in the trial that the two people on the tape are not Kelly or the girl, identified by prosecutors earlier in court as Landfair, now in her 20s. She also contends she is not on the tape and has refused to testify for the prosecution. Jamison said Kelly would give Landfair "not less that $100 ... no more than $500" in cash to go shopping. They had met Kelly at Hoops, a basketball gym in Chicago, accompanied by Landfair's parents when the girls were "about 12," she said. She said she estimated Roshona's age on the tape at 13 or 14. Prosecutors have said the tape was made between January 1998 and November 2000, when the girl was 13 or 14. Jamison said the two girls would do "nothing" on a dozen visits to Kelly's Chicago studio, "Tracks," while he did "recording stuff." Landfair would often stay on after Jamison went home, she added. The two girls later broke off their friendship, she said, though she did not explain why. Jamison also identified photos of Kelly's since-sold Chicago house and its log-cabin style sauna room where prosecutors say the tape was made, and which is a setting visible on the video. Despite the charges lodged against him six years ago, Kelly has earned millions from concert tours and album sales while free on bond. After early 1990s hits such as "Sex Me" and "Bump n' Grind," Kelly won three Grammy Awards for his 1996 single "I Believe I Can Fly," and has scored 20 other Grammy nominations. (Writing by Michael Conlon; editing by Peter Bohan and Vicki Allen) Her identity has been known for quite some time; since MTV aired the special When The Gavel Drops some years ago to be more precise. Roshona was apart of a UK-based, inspirational group around the time the sex tape was filmed, that went by the name 4 The Cause. They had a feasible hit with a cover of Ben E. King's Stand By Me. The MTV special made reference of Roshona being the neice of Sparkle, as well as her participation in the group. A brief snippet of their music video was played with her face blurred to avoid any potential lawsuits. The original video can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/wa...lmDV49NAng Roshona is the girl with the hat, blue top and white pants. Her stage name was known as Shorty. Here's an added promotional picture for the group with Roshona/Shorty seated on the right:  Wow I didn't know that. I saw 4 The Cause on TV some weeks ago on some German retro show performing "Stand By Me". I was surprised that they are still together as a band and performing. With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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Serious said: GoActive said: Her identity has been known for quite some time; since MTV aired the special When The Gavel Drops some years ago to be more precise. Roshona was apart of a UK-based, inspirational group around the time the sex tape was filmed, that went by the name 4 The Cause. They had a feasible hit with a cover of Ben E. King's Stand By Me. The MTV special made reference of Roshona being the neice of Sparkle, as well as her participation in the group. A brief snippet of their music video was played with her face blurred to avoid any potential lawsuits. The original video can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/wa...lmDV49NAng Roshona is the girl with the hat, blue top and white pants. Her stage name was known as Shorty. Here's an added promotional picture for the group with Roshona/Shorty seated on the right: Wow I didn't know that. I saw 4 The Cause on TV some weeks ago on some German retro show performing "Stand By Me". I was surprised that they are still together as a band and performing. What? Were there different looking members? LOL | |
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Timmy84 said: Serious said: Wow I didn't know that. I saw 4 The Cause on TV some weeks ago on some German retro show performing "Stand By Me". I was surprised that they are still together as a band and performing. What? Were there different looking members? LOL Roshona hasn't been apart of the group for years.
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Timmy84 said: Serious said: Wow I didn't know that. I saw 4 The Cause on TV some weeks ago on some German retro show performing "Stand By Me". I was surprised that they are still together as a band and performing. What? Were there different looking members? LOL I don't know, I didn't pay much attention to be honest. I was working on the computer and just looked at the TV for half a minute while they were performing. There were still 2 guys and 2 girls and I remember that the women were dressed sexy. When I saw them I didn't really remember what the had looked like back then. I think the members haven't changed, but I am not sure. With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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GoActive said: Timmy84 said: What? Were there different looking members? LOL Roshona hasn't been apart of the group for years. Ah okay .With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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GoActive said: Timmy84 said: What? Were there different looking members? LOL Roshona hasn't been apart of the group for years. OH, OK.  I'm like "oh is that what she's doing while her alleged jumpoff is on trial?" LOL | |
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SCNDLS said: JackieBlue said: You’re right, Miss Jones is actually not as bad as she could have been. I'll see if I can find the Wendy interview. I think they recently replayed it too. She talked about how people thought she was crazy when she had him on back then. Am I the only one disturbed by the ‘keep it in the family’ stuff and the fact the one woman in particular who called up about saying she was going to the concert later on and basically how could he do this to R? She sounds like the type of woman that turns a blind eye to her own kids getting molested so she can keep her ‘man’. Argh! See I’m getting  again. Those callers were fucking idiots. And at least Ms. Jones tried to stress that these are children and need to be protected.That dude from Brooklyn..... 
Shit like this almost makes me embarrassed to be black. Real talk  "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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bboy87 said: SCNDLS said: Those callers were fucking idiots. And at least Ms. Jones tried to stress that these are children and need to be protected.That dude from Brooklyn.....
Shit like this almost makes me embarrassed to be black. Real talk Sorry, I thought that was funny, lol. I mean I agree with you, ya know? I felt like putting "real talk" at the end of some of my posts at the other board about R. Kelly but decided not to, lol. And he stole that concept from DMX too because he got a skit from his last album talking about "real talk" and talks about stealing bikes and shit. | |
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SCNDLS said: Timmy84 said: OMG, I love this girl:
Jamison remained insistent under tough cross-examination later in the day from defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. Adam said the reason the alleged victim never told the witness she was having a sexual relationship with Kelly was because there wasn't one and "because it's not her on the tape." "Are you asking or telling me?" Jamison shot back. During the cross-examination, the defense also revealed their strategy may be to suggest Kelly's image was computer-generated. "Something could have been done to put a different head on that body," Adam said. He also referred to movies where characters had been digitally altered.
OH NOW THEY WANNA SAY HIS FACE WAS DIGITALLY ALTERED!?! Which is it? A mole or a computer-generated image?! So Rrrrrruh's defense now is: "CGI muthafucka, CGI!!!" Nice try dude. THAT PISS WAS DIGITAL! "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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bboy87 said: SCNDLS said: So Rrrrrruh's defense now is: "CGI muthafucka, CGI!!!" Nice try dude. THAT PISS WAS DIGITAL!
Yeah George Lucas and 'em are responsible for that video. | |
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Good Bye R. Skeleton!!!
When he is found guilty I'm going to party my ass off.  | |
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SCNDLS said: bboy87 said: THAT PISS WAS DIGITAL!
Yeah George Lucas and 'em are responsible for that video.  [list]
Aww snap! No he di'nt! "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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Apparently the origins of this case are that the tape was sent to the Chicago Times who then forwarded it to the Police.
Erm... excuse me...? You have a tape which (alledgedly) shows a man having sex with a minor...and you DON'T forward it to the police yourself?! WTF?! This is not an exit | |
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SCNDLS said: bboy87 said: THAT PISS WAS DIGITAL!
Yeah George Lucas and 'em are responsible for that video. You so crazy
On my yahoo! Entertainment news they have released some sentences from witness testimony. The girl who went to Kelly's studio with the alleged victim is a pistol! She's having none.of.it. from the bullying defense team. They showed her a shirtless picture of R. asked her how she she could identify his bodyand she shot back because "his HEAD is attached to IT "
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Timmy84 said: banks said: Todays Testimony
Identity The BFF of the alleged sex tape victim said that is her childhood friend. Simha Jamison said she and the girl grew up together and stayed friends until they were about 18. She said her friend called Kelly her godfather. He gave her money and they would visit him at the gym and studio as well as his home. She said Kelly never did anything inappropiate to her friend when they were together. But she said that was her friend on the at around 13 or 14 years old. She said kids made copies of the tape when they were in high school. Both girls were born in 1984. The two no longer speak. An aunt and uncle just testified that the girl in the tape is thei niece. The family says they knew Kelly. The bold statement could mean what she told the defense. The last few sentences only tell me one thing: the aunt (Sparkle) just testified! Actually the Aunt that testified yesterday is a cop | |
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rocknrolldave said: Apparently the origins of this case are that the tape was sent to the Chicago Times who then forwarded it to the Police.
Erm... excuse me...? You have a tape which (alledgedly) shows a man having sex with a minor...and you DON'T forward it to the police yourself?! WTF?! Who ever sent the tape to the Chicago Times did so becuase that paper was already writing articles about his dealings with under age girls... when that tape showed up... Shit really blew up | |
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So what’s the deal with Sparkle? She was an officer who was an aspiring singer or became an officer after the record deal fell through? Is Sparkle and the police officer the same person? Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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JackieBlue said: So what’s the deal with Sparkle? She was an officer who was an aspiring singer or became an officer after the record deal fell through? Is Sparkle and the police officer the same person?
Sparkles is not the officer, Its a different Aunt | |
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Ottensen said: SCNDLS said:
Yeah George Lucas and 'em are responsible for that video. You so crazy
On my yahoo! Entertainment news they have released some sentences from witness testimony. The girl who went to Kelly's studio with the alleged victim is a pistol! She's having none.of.it. from the bullying defense team. They showed her a shirtless picture of R. asked her how she she could identify his bodyand she shot back because "his HEAD is attached to IT "
.  See them Chi-town sistas ain't having it. Sounds like they're eatin' up the defense team and got them looking foolish. | |
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Ottensen said: SCNDLS said:
Yeah George Lucas and 'em are responsible for that video. You so crazy
On my yahoo! Entertainment news they have released some sentences from witness testimony. The girl who went to Kelly's studio with the alleged victim is a pistol! She's having none.of.it. from the bullying defense team. They showed her a shirtless picture of R. asked her how she she could identify his bodyand she shot back because "his HEAD is attached to IT "
. Yes.... I like this chick | |
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SCNDLS said: Ottensen said: You so crazy
On my yahoo! Entertainment news they have released some sentences from witness testimony. The girl who went to Kelly's studio with the alleged victim is a pistol! She's having none.of.it. from the bullying defense team. They showed her a shirtless picture of R. asked her how she she could identify his bodyand she shot back because "his HEAD is attached to IT "
. See them Chi-town sistas ain't having it. Sounds like they're eatin' up the defense team and got them looking foolish. Yeah the girl is a DREAM for the prosecution. R. Kelly's defense was actually SCREAMING at the girl (and the niece's family members)!
Yeah, Banks, I found out the aunt was a cop. | |
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