CHICAGO — Nia was just 15 when she left her Atlanta home in 1996 to fly to Minneapolis at the request of R. Kelly, the R&B superstar twice her age.
She had no identification and didn’t tell her mother where she was going, Nia, now 42, told a federal jury on Tuesday. After a white limousine picked her up to take her to the airport, she asked the driver to stop at a gas station, and she bought a single rose to give to Kelly.
“I wanted him to know how I felt about him,” she said. “And I felt that it would be a gesture that would be sweet.”
