Jane remained composed under questioning from Bonjean, maintaining eye contact as each question was asked and often giving succinct one-word answers. “The decision I was going to make was to cooperate with the authorities because I no longer wanted to carry his lies,” she said. In response, Jane slowly put the cap back on her water bottle, paused and said calmly into the microphone, “That is not correct.” Jane texted Kelly: “you need to call me right away or I’m making decisions on my own.”īonjean asked Jane whether that meant she was demanding Kelly pay her for her continued silence. “He wasn’t trying to influence you to do anything, you were just commiserating,” Bonjean said, which Jane confirmed.Īnd in February 2019, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office contacted Jane - it was in possession of more video allegedly involving her and Kelly.
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Kelly” documentary series premiered in January 2019, Jane sent him messages of support. The texts were friendly, with Jane inviting Kelly to a birthday celebration and the two exchanging happy new year greetings. She showed Jane a long series of text messages between Jane and Kelly dating from 20, establishing that the two had relatively recent contact. Kelly’s lead attorney Jennifer Bonjean, however, focused her initial cross-examination on Jane’s adulthood. The videos are at the heart of the case against Kelly and his two co-defendants, who are accused of conspiring to pay off victims and witnesses and cover up years of alleged sexual abuse of minors by Kelly.Įarlier Friday, Kelly’s attorney cross-examined the victim allegedly depicted on the videos, who is being referred to by the pseudonym “Jane.” The woman, now 37, spent about four hours testifying on direct examination Thursday that Kelly struck up a clandestine sexual relationship with her when she was an impressionable young teenager in the 1990s. Just before the videos were played, Leinenweber, at the request of prosecutors, ordered the audio feed to the overflow courtroom and media room cut off.
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