Witness: R. Kelly once compared himself to Jerry Lee Lewis

A witness at the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial says the R&B star once compared himself to rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis

NEW YORK -- R&B star R. Kelly once compared himself to rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis — notorious for marrying his 13-year-old cousin decades ago — saying they were both misunderstood geniuses, a witness at Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial testified Thursday. The witness recounted the comment while for the first time publicly accusing Kelly of luring her into having unwanted sex with him in 1999, when she was a struggling 17-year-old hotel worker. She was the third women to take the witness stand in federal court in Brooklyn to make allegations of sexual abuse. At one point in the relationship, she said she was at dinner with Kelly when he mentioned that he liked young girls and — “out of the blue” — brought up Lewis. “Even look at Jerry Lee Lewis,” she claimed Kelly said. “He’s a genius and I’m a genius. We should be allowed to do whatever we want. Look at what we give to the world.”