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In 2019, federal prosecutors in New York State charged Kelly with bribery related to the 1994 purchase of a fake identification card for Aaliyah to obtain a marriage license. [15] Kelly's former tour manager, Demetrius Smith, testified that he facilitated the wedding by obtaining falsified identification for Aaliyah, which listed her as 18 ...
In 1994, then aged 27, he married 15-year-old singer Aaliyah at a secret ceremony in Chicago, though the marriage was later annulled after the teenager was found to have lied about her age on the ...
NEW YORK — For an illegal wedding that has haunted R&B superstar R. Kelly for 27 years, the actual ceremony wasn’t much to write home about — lasting a mere 10 minutes, the minister who ...
R. Kelly hit with new bribery charge stemming from illegal marriage to Aaliyah.
Age Ain't Nothing but a Number is the only Aaliyah album that Kelly produced for, and in May 1997, Aaliyah filed suit in Cook County seeking to have all records of the marriage expunged because she was not old enough under state law to get married without her parents' consent. Aaliyah admitted in court documents that she had lied about her age.
Internationally, it reached the top 40 in the United Kingdom. While the critics were initially positive towards the song, it soon faced controversy when a marriage certificate stating that a 15-year-old Aaliyah had married a 27-year-old R. Kelly emerged; the marriage was quickly annulled.
Kelly's team bribed an official for a fake ID so he and the then-15-year-old rising star could get married, another witness testified in the federal trial.
Kelly supposedly bribed a government employee in Illinois with $500 to obtain a fake ID for Aaliyah, and then married her in a hotel suite before going back on tour. Their marriage was annulled ...