Before beginning his New York sentence, he had to face this second trial, in the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. He's been in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago where he has spent most of his time since his arrest in 2019.
Prosecutors rested their case on Aug. 30 after presenting two weeks of testimony, including from four Kelly accusers, in their effort to prove the singer enticed underage girls for sex, produced child pornography and successfully rigged his 2008 state trial.
A fifth accuser, who prosecutors had said would testify, never did. They didn't explain why.
The key witness of the prosecutors' case, a 37-year-old woman who used the pseudonym "Jane," testified early that Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times starting in 1998 when she was 14 and Kelly was around 30.
She also testified that Kelly and his associates threatened and paid off her and her parents to lie to a grand jury before the 2008 Cook County trial. Kelly was eventually acquitted in that case, which involved a video that allegedly showed Kelly abusing underage Jane. After acquitting Kelly, jurors said they had no choice because the girl did not take the witness stand at that trial.
During prosecutors' closing arguments, Kelly was described as a superstar who parlayed his fame to sexually abuse minors and record it on video.
Prosecutor Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Pozolo focused much of her closing argument Jane's testimony.
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