R.KELLY TRIAL: SINGER SPARKLE TESTIFIES

May 23, 2008

A former backup singer for R. Kelly cried at his child pornography trial Thursday as she described introducing the R&B star to her relative, the alleged victim in the sex tape, at a Chicago music studio when the girl was 12 or 13. “He liked her spirit. She was a very jolly person,” Stephanie Edwards said. She also leaned forward and identified the Grammy winner as the same man she saw on a sex tape at the center of the trial. Before […]