Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJerhonda Johnson Pace told a federal jury that she began having sex with R. Kelly shortly after she turned 16, as the singer’s racketeering trial got under way in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
She said she had met the singer when she was just 14, outside a courthouse in Chicago where she had gone to support Kelly when he was on trial in the early 2000s for sexual misconduct, according to the Chicago Tribune.Pace, now 28, said she’d told the singer she was 19, but revealed her true age after their first sexual contact.“He asked me, what is that supposed to mean?” Pace, now 28, said on Wednesday, according to the Tribune. “He told me to continue telling people I was 19 and act like I was 21,” adding that Kelly had.
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