Testimony in R&B star R. Kelly‘s child pornography trial has adjourned until after the Memorial Day holiday.

Prosecutors spent the week trying to prove the two people on a homemade video at the center of the case are the 41-year-old singer and the alleged victim. Both Kelly and the now 23-year-old woman deny they’re in the footage.

The judge may rule Friday morning on a defense motion to subpoena a Chicago Sun-Times reporter who got the tape anonymously in 2002. He then turned it over to police.

Kelly is charged with 14 counts of child pornography. He’s pleaded not guilty and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

Police have confirmed that a woman convicted of running a high-end prostitution ring in Washington has committed suicide in a Florida Gulf Coast town.
Tarpon Springs police say the body of 52-year-old Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found hanged in a shed near her mother’s manufactured home Thursday morning. Palfrey left a suicide note but police did not disclose its contents. Police say Palfrey’s mother found the body.

A federal jury convicted Palfrey two weeks ago of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington’s political elite. One of her clients was Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican.

She had denied her escort service engaged in prostitution. She said she never heard of any of the women who worked for her engaging in sex acts for money.

She was convicted of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering. But her trial concluded without revealing many new details about the service or its clients. Vitter was among possible witnesses, but did not take the stand.

Palfrey faced a maximum of 55 years in prison and was free pending her sentencing July 24.

“I am sure as heck am not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, you know, four to eight years here, because I’m shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever,” Palfrey told ABC last year when she released phone records that revealed some of her clients. “Not for a second. I’ll bring every last one of them in if necessary.”

Prosecutors said Palfrey operated the prostitution service for 13 years.

Vitter, a first-term senator who is married and has four children, has acknowledged being involved with Palfrey’s escort service and has apologized for what he called a “very serious sin.” But he avoided commenting further.

One of the escort service employees was former University of Maryland, Baltimore County, professor Brandy Britton, who was arrested on prostitution charges in 2006. She committed suicide in January before she was scheduled to go to trial.

Last year, Palfrey said she, too, was humiliated by her prostitution charges, but said: “I guess I’m made of something that Brandy Britton wasn’t made of.”