NEW YORK, Sept. 23 -- R. Kelly dominated not only women and girls but also his employees over a quarter century of sexual abuse, a prosecutor said on Wednesday as the R&B superstar's sex trafficking trial neared its conclusion.

Assistant US Attorney Elizabeth Geddes told jurors during her closing argument in Brooklyn federal court that Kelly's entourage of business managers, accountants, runners and other employees was "at his disposal."

She said some "turned a blind eye" as they recruited women and girls for Kelly's sexual gratification, a side long concealed from the public and fans of his music.

Kelly used his operations to "dominate his victims," exploited his "money and public persona to hide his crimes in plain sight," Geddes sai...