R. Kelly, the Chicago-born R&B superstar whose “I Believe I Can Fly” anthem inspired countless fans around the globe, sexually abused a 14-year-old girl on camera after she asked him to be her godfather as his career skyrocketed in the 1990s.
Fourteen years after a state-court jury famously cleared him of that claim — at a trial revolving around a video that became a late-night punchline — a federal jury found Wednesday that Kelly produced that and other videos of his graphic abuse of the girl, known in court as “Jane.”
