{"id":16138,"date":"2019-12-06T02:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=16138"},"modified":"2019-12-06T02:59:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:59:11","slug":"r-kelly-faces-bribery-charge-over-1994-marriage-to-aaliyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/12\/06\/r-kelly-faces-bribery-charge-over-1994-marriage-to-aaliyah\/","title":{"rendered":"R Kelly faces bribery charge over 1994 marriage to Aaliyah"},"content":{"rendered":"

R. Kelly has been charged with bribing a government official in order to get a fraudulent identification document to marry an under-age girl in 1994.<\/p>\n

The girl, named only as Jane Doe in the documents, has widely been identified by US media as singer Aaliyah.<\/p>\n

They got married when she was 15 and R Kelly was 27. The certificate, leaked at the time, listed her age as 18.<\/p>\n

R. Kelly is facing several sexual abuse charges with trials in Chicago and New York next year. He denies wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

The latest criminal indictment was filed by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, and expands on charges filed against him in July.<\/p>\n

They say he and his entourage headed up a racketeering operation, across two decades, which recruited women and under-age girls for illegal sexual activity.<\/p>\n

What is the new charge?<\/h2>\n

R. Kelly, real name Robert Kelly, is accused of paying a bribe to an unnamed Illinois government employee to obtain a fake ID.<\/p>\n

That identification was then used to obtain a marriage license which listed her age as 18,<\/a>\u00a0the New York Times reports.<\/p>\n

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Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Court documents reportedly say the bribe was paid on 30 August 1994 – just one day before the marriage licence to Aaliyah, first reported by Vibe magazine.<\/p>\n

Their marriage was annulled months later because the teenager, whose full name was Aaliyah Dana Haughton, was under age.<\/p>\n

The singer died in a plane crash in 2001. Her debut album, Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number, was produced and written by R. Kelly.<\/p>\n

Steven Greenberg, R. Kelly’s lawyer, told ABC News earlier this year that his client had “no idea” Aaliyah was 15 when they married.<\/p>\n

Responding to the New York Times on Thursday, Mr Greenberg said the new charge “does not appear to materially alter the landscape”.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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