June 03, 2008

R. Kelly Trial: 'Threesome' Woman Testifies She Had Three Sexual Encounters With Kelly, Girl In Videotape

By Jennifer Vineyard (MTV.com)

"I didn't want to do it!"

Breaking down in tears, Lisa Van Allen repeated the phrase three times - the first time because Sam Adam Sr., R. Kelly's defense attorney, said he couldn't hear it, the second and third because the judge and the prosecution gently asked her to say it again for Adam's benefit.

Van Allen had been describing what she claimed was her second videotaped sexual encounter with Kelly and the allegedly underage girl who appears in the video at the center of the trial. Van Allen, who had been given immunity from prosecution on both a state and federal level, testified that this particular encounter was cut short because she began crying, claiming the singer told her "he couldn't watch that, he couldn't do anything with that."

Van Allen claimed that she met Kelly on the video set for Home Alone, joined him in the video for "I Wish" (she's the girl braiding his hair), and later joined him on the Get Up On the Room Tour to participate in a simulated sex act onstage. "Every night, he would pick me out of the audience," she said, "and we would do the bed scene at the end of the show."

The now-visibly-pregnant Van Allen testified that as one of Kelly's mistresses, she met up with the singer frequently between 1998 and 2001, beginning when she was 17 years old. She participated in three three-way sexual encounters with the singer, she said, including one in the Colorado Room at his former residence, one on a mattress on his indoor basketball court at his former residence, and one in his trailer on the set of his video for "A Woman's Threat" - and she claimed each of those encounters involved the girl that prosecutors say is on the sex tape. Van Allen said those encounters happened in 1998, 1999 and 2000 - when the girl was 14 through 16 years old.

Van Allen said that Kelly kept all the tapes with him in a duffel bag "which he carried everywhere. ... It went to the studio. ... It went to the gym. ... It went to video shoots." But one of those tapes fell out of his possession, she said - the first threesome involving her, the girl and Kelly - so she called him to let him know she had the tape, and she testified that he offered her $250,000 to return it in March 2007. But when she gave him a copy - not the original, she said - she only received $20,000.

Adam characterized this as an extortion attempt, which Van Allen denied. The defense attorney asked her about her associations with Damon Pryor (the father of her 5-year-old daughter, and last week's "surprise witness") and Yule Brown (her fiancé), both convicted felons whom the defense suggested taught her how to run a con, which she denied. (The defense plans to call Pryor to undermine her testimony later.)

"I didn't extort anybody," Van Allen insisted.