Who is R Kelly’s defense attorney, Nicole Blank Becker?

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Just a few hours after federal prosecutors in opening arguments referred to R Kelly as a “predator” who used his fame to target and abuse young women and girls over the span of three decades, Nicole Blank Becker came to the R&B singer’s defense.

“The relationships he had with the [accusers] were consenting relationships,” Becker told the jury during her opening statement on the trial’s first day. “These were individuals who knew what they were getting into.”

Pacing in front of the jury wearing a dark pantsuit, her hair pulled back into a low ponytail, Becker said the accusers are women who became “resentful, angry and even spiteful” after their relationships with Kelly ended and have taken “advantage” of their situation for media attention.

By Lauren Aratani.

Full story at Yahoo News.