Kansas City mention in R. Kelly case

Our Cowntown came up as a key destination in a hush money payment plan. I know I'm proud.

Prosecutors rested their case in R. Kelly's child pornography trial after a day of sensational testimony about alleged trysts, extortion plots and a duffel bag full of sex tapes.

Lisa Van Allen said that R. Kelly was obsessed with videotaping sexual encounters.

Star prosecution witness Lisa Van Allen cried on the witness stand, pausing to regain her composure, as she described several alleged three-way sexual encounters with the R&B star and the alleged victim, some of which she claimed Kelly videotaped.

Van Allen, 27, also told jurors in more than three hours of testimony Monday that Kelly offered her $250,000 last year to recover a tape of one of the trysts . . .

Van Allen told jurors that Kelly offered her $250,000 last year to recover a tape of one of the encounters with the alleged victim. She said acquaintances of hers took the tape from Kansas City to a Chicago hotel, where it was handed over to a Kelly associate who paid $20,000 in cash.

And this story inspired me to look up an old bit from Chappelle's show that remains my favorite commentary on the case.