R. Kelly Trial: You've Got the Wrong Girl

The long, drawn out R. Kelly trial saw a new twist this week as family members of the alleged victim insisted the girl in the infamous sex tape was not their relative.

According to the Associated Press, the question of the young woman's identity has split the alleged victim's family. The alleged victim was as young as 13 years old at the time. Some relatives believe the girl is, in fact, related to them, while an almost equal number say she's not. After being shown the video, family member Shonna Edwards, 27, claimed the girl onscreen was too physically developed to have been the girl related to her. Edwards said it was not even possible that the girl in the video and her relative were one and the same. Two additional family members gave similar testimony. Edwards, who had met Kelly while singing in a '90s R&B group, says the man performing sex acts on film "did not appear" to be Kelly.

Five years ago, Kelly was charged with 14 counts of child pornography. He continues to plead not guilty in the face of up to 15 years in jail. Both he and the alleged victim claim they're not on the tape that shocked viewers everywhere when it first leaked. However, the defense's star witness, Lisa Allen, claimed she was involved in a menage-a-trois with the singer and the girl. Allen's fiance, Yul Brown, has priced Allen's silence, asking Kelly for $300,000.

Jim DeRogatis, the Chicago Sun-Times journalist to first see the tape has also decided to stay out of the continued R. Kelly court debacle, based on the Fifth Amendment that allows citizens to protect themselves against self-incrimination.