R. Kelly Is Charged With Using Bribes to Marry Aaliyah at Age 15

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

He bribed a government employee in 1994 so that he could obtain a fake ID for the singer Aaliyah, a person familiar with the matter said.

One persistent question has dogged R. Kelly’s two-decade music career: How was he able to legally marry the singer Aaliyah in 1994 when she was only 15 years old?

On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn accused Mr. Kelly of bribing an Illinois government employee in 1994 in order to obtain a fake ID for Aaliyah, according to the indictment and a person familiar with the matter.

The fake ID was to be used to obtain a marriage license that listed her age as 18, the person familiar said.

The new allegation expands on an existing racketeering indictment filed in New York against Mr. Kelly that accuses him of sexually exploiting underage girls and coercing them into illegal sexual activity. This year, Mr. Kelly has been criminally charged in several jurisdictions over sex abuse of minors.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/nyregion/rkelly-aaliyah.html

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[dewsgirl]

1. Aaliyah, didn't she die in a plane crash?

[cstanleytech]

3. Yes. nt

[dewsgirl]

5. I had her confused with Lisa Left eye from TLC at

first, sadly they both died quite young. Lisa was a traffic accident. They died within a year of one another, such a loss.

[IronLionZion]

4. Yeah, it was a few weeks before 9/11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaliyah

[dewsgirl]

6. So very sad. I had her mixed up with Lisa Left eye Lopez,

she died like year later in a traffic accident. Just awful.😔

[cstanleytech]

2. How are they getting past the statute of limitations though as I thought it was 5 years for bribery

for federal crimes?

[virgogal]

7. Explained in the article...part of the racketeering charge.

[cstanleytech]

11. Ahhhh, thanks. nt

[SummerSnow]

8. Blame her parents, they allowed this...

If they had no knowledge of what he was doing, then they should have immediately had him arrested after they found out.

[Maraya1969]

9. Did you watch, "Surviving R. Kelly"? Because he was a monster. The parents of the one

girl that just left him said that they told Kelly that he better leave their kid alone, (She auditioned for him and he wanted to "Mentor" her) Somehow during their first meeting the girl took off and got to where he was first. She was underage at the time. When they got there their daughter was already there working on music or something.

Anyway, they said later in the show that she admitted to having sex with him that very first day! And they weren't the only parents that tried to keep their daughters away from him. He had a reputation and they tried but he was so slick! And the moment she turned 18 she went with him and they could do nothing.

They interviewed several parents. They had to hire PI's to find their daughters and it was really sad seeing these mother's desperately trying to get their daughters to just talk to them.

I'm glad the guy is in jail and I hope he stays there for a long time. He is a dangerous man.

Edit: And he was brought up on charges before. I think it is the same as how Trump and Epstein and other wealthy men are able to pay people off to get away with crimes.

[SummerSnow]

10. Yes. But I am talking about AAliyah's parents, not those other girls parents.

Im glad he is in jail too. Hopefully for a long time.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Two years older than the child Donald Trump raped

Two years older than the child Donald Trump raped