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TW: This post contains graphic details of sexual assault and domestic violence.
A third woman testified atR.
Even look at Jerry Lee Lewis.
Hes a genius, Im a genius, she remembered Kelly saying.
We should be allowed to do whatever we want.
The woman, now 39, said she first encountered Kelly in 1998 at a Chicago McDonalds.
She was 16, standing alone at the register.
A man came up to her and asked her age.
I threw out his phone number, she said, because I didnt intend to talk to him.
Stephanie wound up running into Kelly again in summer 1999.
She heard from a hotel co-worker that Kelly was nearby, doing an event at a Nike store.
She ran into Kelly as he was leaving the store.
I asked him if he remembered me, he said yes, she recalled.
She asked whether he would meet her friend who had a great voice.
He invited her into his car to chat.
After she arrived, someone brought her to the second floor, and led her to a room.
There were two sofas.
An employee told her to stay here and wait for him.
The employee then left and she was alone.
I waited there a few hours, she said.
Kelly arrived and sat down next to her, apologizing for the delay.
There was a little bit of chitchat and we had sex that day.
He initiated the sex, she alleged.
Their sexual encounters continued to take place over a course of six months.
She turned 18 in October.
It was humiliating, she said of their sexual encounters.
Kelly did ask her about her age, at some point after their first sexual encounter.
She was nervous because she was underage, but she told him that she was 17.
He said it was fine, she testified.
Stephanie told prosecutors that Kelly recorded them having sex.
She didnt want to but did as he asked.
I felt like I didnt have a choice, she explained.
Stephanie said she was 17.
Stephanie said she decided to end the relationship because she couldnt take it.
I felt used and humiliated and degraded, she said.
I just didnt want to be abused anymore.
He was either nice and charming and jovialor he was very controlling [and] intimidating.
Hed raise his voice at me.
He could put the fear of God in me very quickly.
Kelly pleaded not guilty to this indictment.
He has maintained his innocence.
He is also facing federal charges in Chicago, as well as state charges in Illinois and Minnesota.
Pace met Kelly when she was 14 years old in Chicago, athis 2008 child pornography trial.
When Pace was completely nude, Kelly allegedly grabbed and began kissing her.
Kelly then took her into the game room, and performed oral sex on her there.
I felt uncomfortable, and I told him I was actually 16, Pace recalled.
He asked me: What is that supposed to mean?
And to continue to tell everyone I was 19 and to act 21, Pace said of Kellys response.
She told him that she was a virgin.
He told me that he was going to train me on how to kindly him sexually.
The woman ultimately left Kelly in October 2019, several months after he was indicted on federal sex-crime charges.
Both Pace and the other woman said that they contracted herpes from Kelly.
They said that he did not disclose his herpes diagnosis to them prior to engaging in sexual conduct.
During cross-examination, Kelly lawyer Nicole Blank Becker asked Stephanie whether Kelly had physically abused her.
When asked why she would never forget them, Stephanie put her face in her hands and started crying.
Because that was the lowest time in my life.
Ive never been treated like that before or since, she said.
Ill never forget the way he treated me.
This story is developing and will be updated accordingly.
