R. Kelly’s Former Goddaughter Breaks Her Silence

After testifying calmly for nearly two hours, Jane’s voice grew quieter and began to break as she was asked to describe sexual encounters that Kelly recorded, including the now-infamous tape at the center of Kelly’s 2008 child pornography trial.

On another video from about the same time, Jane testified, filmed in the wood-paneled jacuzzi room in Kelly’s basement, Kelly appeared to hand her money before they have sex.

When a prosecutor asked why he gave her money, Jane started to cry audibly, saying after a long pause: “Because if anybody saw the tape or if it was released for some reason he wanted it to appear as if I was a prostitute.”

Jane and her parents had denied for years that Kelly ever had an inappropriate relationship with her, including to a grand jury in 2002. Jane was not called to testify at Kelly’s 2008 Cook County trial for child pornography, even though county prosecutors alleged she was the girl on the tape.

Earlier in her testimony, Jane told the jury said she was star-struck when she first met Kelly in the 1990s, especially after he attended a performance of her music group and gave her good feedback.

(Jane Doe at 14 in the middle.)

The tape allegedly filmed in that Lakeview house is one of four at the center of the child-pornography charges against Kelly, who is also accused along with former associates Derrel McDavid and Milton “June” Brown of conspiring to rig his 2008 trial.