R. Kelly's executive assistant, who walked in on him performing sex acts on a teenager and is accused of standing guard on one of Kelly's alleged trapped victims, said she would have done nothing differently if she could.
Diana Copeland, Kelly's assistant of 16 years, told Good Morning America that despite Kelly's entourage of 'girlfriends' and strict house rules limiting their movement, she never suspected the music star of illegal activities and said she would not have been able to stop him even if she did.
Copeland added that she had never seen anyone trapped in the house nor ever recruited any woman or girl for the R&B singer.
'He was R. Kelly, a mega superstar. He needed no help, absolutely no help to recruit women or to get women,' Copeland said.
Diana Copeland appeared on Good Morning America on Friday to claim that she did not help R. Kelly recruit women and that there was nothing she could have done to stop him
Copeland, Kelly's former aide, testified that one of his girlfriends made her change into a robe during a 2019 meeting at Trump Tower so Kelly could see that she was not wearing a wire
Copeland began testifying in R. Kelly's trial last week.
Copeland, who worked as an executive assistant for Kelly for 16 years, claimed that when he summoned her to his apartment in Trump Tower in Chicago in 2019, after she had already quit her job, one of the hip hop star's girlfriends, Jane, made her change into a robe in order to prove that she was not wearing a wire.
'Jane gave me a robe to put on. She asked me was I wired,' Copeland told the jury in Brooklyn Federal Court. 'I was shocked and I said no.'
Copeland said she removed the sweatshirt she was wearing and put on the robe over her tank top.
She said Kelly, 54,
