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R. Kellywas found guilty on all counts in his Brooklyn federal court trial on Monday, September 27.
Kelly was charged with one racketeering count and eight Mann Act counts.
The Mann Act is a law prohibiting transporting people across state lines for illegal sexual activity.
To make their case, prosecutors called 45 witnesses.
The foreman glanced at the verdict sheet for reference but always looked at Donnelly when giving the decision.
The other jurors, seven men and five women, looked ahead throughout the brief proceeding.
They appeared serious but not tired after sitting through more than a month of harrowing testimony.
This was the first time during Kellys trial that press were permitted in the courtroom.
Kelly is scheduled to be sentenced on May 4, 2022.
Here are the stories of Kellys accusers.
Pace had initially told Kelly she was 19.
I felt uncomfortable, and I told him I was actually 16.
He asked me: What is that supposed to mean?
And to continue to tell everyone I was 19 and to act 21.
He told me that he was going to train me on how to kindly him sexually.
He recorded us having sexual intercourse.
He wanted me to put my hair up in pigtails and dress like a Girl Scout.
Pace described the incident in a diary entry she read on the witness stand.
I went to Robs house and Rob called me silly, he called me a silly bitch.
He spit in my face and in my mouth.
He choked me during an argument.
I had sex with him.
I had oral sex with him.
I became fed up with him.
I went home and confessed.
The jury found that Kelly had committed crimes against Jerhonda.
She was a junior in high school.
Jane said that Kelly lured her into his world by saying that he would mentor her singing career.
Every single time we would have vaginal penetration, I would have discomfort.
Initially, he would joke and say its just because hes too big size-wise.
It got worse … it got to the point where I physically couldnt even walk.
[The doctor] said that I had contracted an STD herpes.
I had told him, and he was agitated and said, You could have gotten that from anyone.
I told him I had only been intimate with him.
He said that it was just a spanking to help me remember [the rules].
I would get chastised nearly every two to three days.
He would leave bruises, and sometimes it would make my skin tear.
The jury found that Kelly committed crimes against Jane.
Stephanie
Stephaniesaidthat she met Kelly in 1998, at a Chicago McDonalds.
One of Kellys associates gave Stephanie the singers phone number and told her to call.
Stephanie told this associate she was 16.
While Stephanie didnt call Kelly after that encounter, she saw him in summer 1999 at a Nike store.
Stephanie went there with the hopes of connecting Kelly with her then-roommate, who was an aspiring singer.
He invited her to his studio.
I waited there a few hours.
There was a little bit of chitchat and we had sex that day.
He mentioned that he likes young girls and that people make such a big deal of it.
Even look at Jerry Lee Lewis.
Hes a genius, Im a genius.
We should be allowed to do whatever we want.
The jury found that Kelly sexually exploited Stephanie as a minor.
These young ladies, who sported shirts that said STAFF, explained that Kelly was having an after-party backstage.
Kelly coerced Faith into sex in her hotel room, she said.
I told him I wasnt ready for sex.
He says, Well, Im at my best when Im wanted.
It was like a poke.
He, like, literally spread me open it felt like I was being examined by an OB/GYN.
I was just kind of like,Ugh,I dont know how to react to that.
I said, Are you going to use a condom?
He said, I dont need a condom.
On the fourth day of having a cold, my mouth had bumps everywhere.
My mouth was inflamed with bumps.
I knew it was him.
The jury found that Kelly committed crimes against Faith.
Sonja
In 2003, Sonja met Kelly at a Salt Lake City, Utah, mall.
Sonja, then 21, was interning at a local radio station at the time.
She went there in the hopes of landing a career-making interview.
Kelly didnt want to go to the station for an interview, nor speak with Sonja on the phone.
One of Kellys handlers gave Sonja a piece of paper with his phone number on it.
She called and called him until he agreed to an interview.
Kelly arranged for Sonja to travel to Chicago.
I tried to initiate the door.
Come to find out, it was locked from the outside.
I was scared, for one.
It was beyond embarrassing.
I got extremely just, full … felt extremely full and tired.
I felt something coming on, like,Okay, Im done eating.
The next thing I remember [is] waking up to some commotion in the room.
I was extremely confused.
I was looking over to my right.
Hes pulling up his pants in the corner.
There was some wet stuff between my legs and on my thighs.
I know my body.
I know when something is wrong.
It just felt like somebody and something had been inside of [me].
I was touched sexually.
Anna and Kelly swapped numbers and started communicating.
Anna saw Kelly again in Atlanta, when she traveled to the city to see a friend.
She said that she started living with Kelly not long after.
Anna said that she had to follow rules, such as how she could interact with his other girlfriends.
It was really an option between the two.
Anna left Kelly in late 2018.
Louis, then 17, was working at a McDonalds; Kellys car passed through the drive-through lane.
Kelly asked Louis to pass a female colleague, whom hed seen, his phone number.
Louis did so, and Kelly gave him a piece of paper with his phone number as well.
Louis, who wanted to be a musician, gave this paper to his mom.
She called with Louis within earshot; Kelly invited them to a get-together at his suburban Chicago home.
Louis and his parents went.
We sat around and talked for a while.
He just asked me: What was I willing to do for the music?
He said, You ever had a fantasy about a man?
He crawled down on his knees and proceeded to give me oral sex.
I said I didnt like it, I wasnt into it.
[Kelly stopped.]
He just told me, Keep it between me and him.
[Kelly] told her to crawl over to him and give him oral sex.
It was just weird.
They had sexual encounters for several years.
She said that she and her 19-year-old best friend went to Kellys show in Miami.
A friend of Addies mother, who worked at an area radio station, had gotten all-access tickets.
Addies mother gave the teens these passes.
They asked if me and my best friend wanted to go and get autographs from Kelly.
I automatically assumed, because I was underage, I couldnt go back there.
I told him I was an aspiring artist as well.
He also wrote down a [hotel] room number, suggesting to come by for an audition.
He didnt respond about my age.
Kelly spoke with one of the bouncers.
Everyone was directed out of the room except Kelly and the two teens.
Kelly told them that he wanted to play a game, to see who could kiss better.
Kelly kissed her best friend, who returned the kiss but then pulled back.
He kissed Addie, who similarly returned the kiss before stopping.
He sort of guided me to the back of the room.
He had sex with me unprotected.
Angelas pal, Tiffany, took her to a party at Kellys Chicago apartment.
Kelly and some of his crew were there, as well as several other young females.
They were all hanging out in the common area.
She said that Kelly went into another room, and then young ladies joined him.
Angela testified that they had intercourse.
All of us, one by one, all of the young ladies …
He asked me to climb on top of him.
I paused for a moment.
I was a little startled.
The defendant asked me to straddle him and to ride him.
I asked if I could grab a condom.
After that, I proceeded to put the condom on the gentleman and straddled him.
Aaliyah came on tour with them in 1992 or 1993.
I saw Robert and Aaliyah in a sexual situation.
It appeared that he had his head in between her legs and was giving her oral sex.
I closed the door abruptly and pushed the girl behind me away from the door.
Kate and Kelly had intercourse later and kept seeing one another until 2004.
Before the first time they had sex, Kate said she was concerned about STIs.
I worried about multiple sexual partners and worried about the AIDS virus.
Prior to it, I had asked if he was going to wear something.
At first, he just kind of looked at me quizzically.
I said, Are you going to use something?
He just said, No.
I had asked him if he was quote-unquote okay …
I dont recall the actual answer.
Kate said that she noticed a small bump in her lower region in 2001 and was diagnosed with herpes.
He claimed that Louis, his friend at the time, introduced them.
Alex said he and Kelly had their first sexual encounter when he was age 20.
He said that Kelly pressured him into unwanted sex acts, including encounters with women while Kelly looked on.
Alex also claimed to have had numerous sexual encounters with Kelly.
Demetrius Smith, Kellys former tour manager, was one of these witnesses.
Eventually, Smith revealed his suspicions.
I thought that they were playful and at times, I was concerned.
Robert, everything cool with you and Aaliyah?
I just thought they were over-playful.
Robert, are you messing with Aaliyah or anything?
Hed say, No.
I didnt want people to have the wrong vision of things.
Kelly believed that Aaliyah, then 15, was pregnant.
Smith said he witnessed the marriage.
The jury found that Kelly committed a crime in relation to Aaliyah.
Witness testimony has been condensed for length.
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