R. Kelly Sex Tape Trial: Kelly's Kartoon Korner

Boy, does R. Kelly love Space Jam. The movie featured Kelly's biggest hit, “I Believe I Can Fly,” and he used some of the royalties to pay for a giant Looney Tunes mural in the basement of his Chicago house.

At the center of the action: R. Kelly, in shades, going one-on-one with the Tasmanian Devil. Michael Jordan was the referee. A scoreboard announced R. KELLY 95, TAZ-D 93 with one second left in the fourth quarter. Wile E. Coyote sold concessions, Pepe LePew and Jessica Rabbit posed in the luxury boxes. In the cheap seats, Foghorn Leghorn raised a “Go R. Kelly” sign. Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Tweety and Marvin the Martian didn’t declare an allegiance, but presumably, they were Kelly fans, since he was the home toon.

Chicago police Investigator Alexandra Guerrero saw Kelly’s Kartoon Korner when she visited the house to investigate allegations of child pornography.

“I remember seeing a basketball room and Disney characters,” Guerrero testified.

As her photographs were shown on the courtroom monitors, Kelly’s lead attorney, Edward Genson, offered a correction.

“Those aren’t Disney characters,” said Genson, a child of the 1940s. “They’re Looney Tunes characters. There’s Porky Pig!”

In other courtroom happenings, Kelly must have been thinking “Et tu, Lindsey?” as his former personal assistant testified against him. Lindsey Perryman, who began working for Kelly as an intern in his Chicago studio, and later assisted in the production of TP3 and “Trapped in the Closet,” told of seeing Kelly’s alleged teenage victim bring a pillow and an overnight bag for studio sleepovers. She also drove the girl to Kelly’s house, never imagining she was transporting jailbait. Perryman described Kelly as a “gentleman” who never behaved inappropriately toward woman. But she was “110% sure” that the video starred Kelly and the teenager.

“When I first saw it, number one, I was shocked,” Perryman said. “I would never want to think of Mr. Kelly acting like that. I’m still disturbed.”

Courthouse trivia: Kelly’s code name among sheriff’s deputies is “Package.”