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Kelly Camp Gets Sex Tape
With bootlegs of R. Kelly's alleged sex tape pretty much anywhere these days--file-sharing sites, street corners, porn shops--you'd think the R&B star's attorneys would have gotten their hands on the original video a lot sooner than now. Think again.
After refusing numerous requests over the past two years, Illinois prosecutors in Kelly's child-pornography case have finally turned over the original videotape that they say shows the singer doing the bump n' grind with a minor.
"Their expert wouldn't let it go. It was just pending for the longest time and they didn't comply," Kelly's attorney, Ed Genson, told E! Online Wednesday.
The exchange was conducted in court Friday and supervised by Judge Vincent Gaughan. Cook County attorneys have handed over copies of the video in the past, but this is the first time Kelly's camp actually obtained the original, which they plan to study and make their own copies of.
Kelly's lawyers have previously argued that their superstar client is not the man shown having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl on the tape. The graphic footage was shot sometime between 1998 and 2000 and was the subject of a Chicago Sun-Times story two years ago that claimed the "Snake" singer used his fame and fortune to seduce underage women.
The alleged incident spurred Chicago prosecutors to charge Kelly with 21 counts of child pornography, seven of which were dismissed last year during pretrial procedures.
The Grammy-winning hitmaker has pleaded innocent across the board. If convicted on the 14 remaing charges, he could be sentenced up to 15 years in prison, fined a $100,000 and forced to register as a sex offender.
Meanwhile, the judge also cleared Kelly to travel to Florida for some February performances. However, Kelly must check in each day with a court-appointed officer.
A trial date in Kelly's kiddie-porn case is pending; a hearing to go over routine motions is set for Feb. 18.
The battle over the sex tape isn't the only item on the Kelly court docket. He's also in a bitter legal feud with former pal Jay-Z over the collapse of their Best of Both Worlds Tour last spring. Kelly sued the rapper for $75 million, claiming breach of contract and accusing Jay-Z of sabotaging the trek because he was "jealous" of Kelly's "superior audience draw and tour profit share."
Bad blood between the two had been brewing from the tour's outset, when Kelly showed up late, forcing a concert cancellation. Then, Kelly walked off the stage during a Madison Square Garden show, claiming he saw two audience members waving guns. Kelly and two bodyguards were reportedly pepper-sprayed by a member of Jay-Z's posse, and that's when the lawyers got involved.
The newly-retired HOVA made light of his fallout with Kelly in a remix of Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot," which recently hit the Web.
"Wasting your time trying to sue S Dot,"," Jay-Z rhymed. "Tell your lawyer to take the civil case and drop it like it's hot."
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