{"id":54283,"date":"2022-08-23T21:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/fixer-says-r-kelly-hired-him-to-recover-tape-that-showed-singer-with-a-young-lady-having-sex-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T21:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:55:59","slug":"fixer-says-r-kelly-hired-him-to-recover-tape-that-showed-singer-with-a-young-lady-having-sex-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/fixer-says-r-kelly-hired-him-to-recover-tape-that-showed-singer-with-a-young-lady-having-sex-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixer Says R. Kelly Hired Him to Recover Tape That Showed Singer ‘With a Young Lady Having Sex’ \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tJurors in R.<\/span> Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago heard testimony from a fixer and lie detector test administrator Tuesday, Aug. 23, as prosecutors attempted to show how the disgraced singer his associates allegedly tried to cover up and subvert previous sexual assault and child pornography and investigations.<\/p>\n

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\tAs the Chicago Tribune <\/em>reports, the prosecution’s top witness today was Charles Freeman, a fixer of sorts, who did merchandise for Kelly in the Nineties and later became friends with the singer. According to Freeman, Kelly called him around 2001 with a specific task: \u201crecover some tapes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tFreeman said he then heard from one of Kelly’s co-defendants, Derrel McDavid, as well as the infamous private investigator Jack Palladino, both of whom allegedly told Freeman he would get a \u201creward\u201d if he retrieved the video (Palladino, who worked for Kelly, as well as Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein, who died after being attacked last February.) Freeman claimed he did not know what was on the tape at the time, stating only that McDavid described it as a \u201cperformance tape,\u201d and that if Freeman got it back, \u201cthey would take care of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tIn August 2001, Freeman signed a contract saying he’d get $100,000, plus expenses, if he recovered the tape. He also tested that McDavid told him he could earn $1 million for the job, though McDavid allegedly stressed, \u201cWe need the originals and make sure this is the actual evidence tape\u2026 It would look bad if we gave you a million dollars for a tape and it’s not the tape that we want.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tAs for who had the tapes, Freeman said he’d been told that they’d been taken by one of Kelly’s ex-girlfriends, Lisa Van Allen, who’d given them to some people in Atlanta. Freeman said he drove to the house of the people who purportedly had the tape and told the woman who answered the door, \u201cI’m here to recover the MF tapes that y’all stole from Robert Kelly.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tOne of the tapes, Freeman said, showed Kelly \u201cwith a young lady having sex\u201d (the other two were a Disney movie and a family video, he said). When asked what age the woman looked to him, Freeman replied, \u201cYoung.\u201d He also said he made several copies of that video with some blank tapes and a VCR recorder he purchased after retrieving the tapes. <\/p>\n

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\tFreeman tested that he still had copies of the tape as recently as 2019, and only turned them over to the authorities, via his lawyer, after he learned the police were looking into him in connection to Kelly. Asked why he didn’t immediately turn the tape over to the cops after getting it in 2001, Freeman replied, \u201cBecause the police wasn’t going to pay me a million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tWhile Freeman did turn the tape over to McDavid and Palladino, the pair reportedly made him take a lie detector test. Previously, the jury had heard from Lawrence Berkland, a lie detector test administrator, who said an attorney hired him in August 2001 to interview someone about whether they’d made copies of a certain videotape. Berkland said the man he interviewed declined to give his name and was uncooperative until Berkland told him that the attorney who’d hired him said the subject would get $ 200,000 if he passed the test. <\/p>\n

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\tDuring his testimony, Freeman said after he took his polygraph test, Palladino contacted him and said he knew he had another tape. Freeman said he gave that tape over and got a bag of cash in return. <\/p>\n

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\tOn top of the 2001 tape retrieval, Freeman said McDavid contacted him again in either late 2003 or early 2004 to recover another tape. \u201cDerrell said it’s another performance tape, sex tape is what he described,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cWith Lisa Van Allen, Robert, and the young lady on the tape.\u201d Freeman’s description of the tape reportedly matches the description prosecutors have used for Video 4 \u2014 the one tape out of four they don’t have and can’t show to the jury.<\/p>\n

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\tYesterday, Aug. 22, the jury heard some crucial testimony from a woman identified as \u201cSusan,\u201d who is the mother of \u201cJane,\u201d Kelly’s former goddaughter who claims Kelly beganly abusing her \u2014 and videotaping that abuse \u2014 when she was 14. Jane and her family had initially rebuffed investigators looking into the early of abuse against Kelly in the 2000s, and Susan even denied it was Jane in the tape during grand jury hearings at the time. But after Jane tested about her own experiences last week, Susan backed up many of her claims \u2014 including that it was her on the video \u2014 while on the stand Monday. <\/p>\n

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\tSusan said she lied to the grand jury about the video because \u201cwe feared for our lives and we were intimidated.\u201d Susan also tested that she felt threatened during a meeting with Kelly and McDavid in the early 2000s, during which the pair allegedly told her she \u201cneeded to leave town right away,\u201d and Kelly allegedly asked her, \u201cAre you with us or are you note?”<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThey were going to harm us if we didn’t do what they told us to do,\u201d Susan testified. \u201cWe were fearful \u2026 we packed our bags, and we left town.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n