R. Kelly Sex Tape Trial: Even More Threesomes
Posted Monday 06/02/2008 10:39 PM in
Blender Blog
by
Edward McClelland
Filed Under:
R. Kelly, r. kelly trial
The woman who says she had a threesome with R. Kelly turned out to be skeezier than anyone imagined.Lisa Van Allen was just 17 when she showed up at the video shoot for “Home Alone,” near her hometown of Atlanta. As an underage girl, Van Allen caught Kelly’s eye and was invited for a private audience in his trailer.
“We talked for a little while, then we had intercourse,” Van Allen described that first date.
A romance was born. Soon, Kelly was flying her to Chicago, giving her shopping money, and taking her on the “Get Up On A Room Tour,” where they had simulated sex onstage. Van Allen also braided Kelly’s hair in the “I Wish” video.
Simulated sex was OK. So was one-on-one sex. But Kelly wanted more, Van Allen testified. One night near the end of 1998, he took her to his house on Chicago’s North Side, where another teenage girl was waiting — the girl who allegedly appears on the sex tape at the heart of this trial. Kelly set up his video camera, and “we engaged in sex, all three of us.”
Nearly a year later, Kelly tried to pressure Van Allen into another threesome with the girl. It was after an awards ceremony. When they returned to Kelly’s house, the girl was already there, and a futon mattress was flopped on Kelly’s basketball court.
“He set up his camera, we took off our clothes, and we all had sex again,” Van Allen said, crying and wiping her eyes as she recounted the act.
At the defense table, Kelly stared at the floor and shook his head.
“I started crying ’cause I didn’t want to do it,” Van Allen whispered. “He got upset and said he couldn’t watch that, couldn’t do anything with me crying. So he put the camera up.”
One of Kelly’s lawyers, Sam Adam Sr., portrayed Van Allen as a grifter who tried to extort money from Kelly. Under questioning, Van Allen admitted that she stole a $20,000 diamond Rolex from Kelly when he visited her in Atlanta.
Adam accused Van Allen of going to prosecutors only after Kelly broke his word to pay $250,000 for the return of a tape featuring one of their threesomes.
The tape was in the possession of a Kansas City man. According to Van Allen, the man flew to Chicago, where he met one of Kelly’s accountants, who paid only $40,000.
In February, Van Allen’s fiance, Yul Brown, was arrested for having a loaded AK-47 in his house. As a felon with a fraud conviction, Brown wasn’t allowed to own the weapon, Adam said. Shortly after the raid, he said, Brown and Van Allen called prosecutors in the Kelly case, offering inside info.
“You and Yul Brown cooked up the scheme about having you testify for R. Kelly to get him help on the gun charge,” Adam accused, noting that, soon after, Brown was given probation.
Van Allen is pregnant with Brown’s child. Damon Pryor, the father of her 5-year-old daughter, is the baby daddy who called Kelly’s attorneys last week, offering to discredit his ex. Pryor has his own shady past, having served time for bank fraud.
“Do you have something with men that they have to have a federal conviction for fraud?” Adam mocked.
Van Allen obviously has a thing for bad boys — starting with R. Kelly.


