R. Kelly Charged With Bribing Official to Marry Aaliyah at Age 15

R. Kelly has been charged with using bribes to wed then 15-year-old Aaliyah in 1994.

On Thursday (December 4), federal prosecutors charged the 52-year-old singer for bribing a government employee in Illinois, The New York Times reports.

The bribe was allegedly over R. Kelly trying to obtain a fake ID in order to obtain a marriage license that showed Aaliyah‘s age as 18.

The new accusation adds to an already existing racketeering indictment filed in New York against R. Kelly, which accuses him of “sexually exploiting underage girls and coercing them into illegal sexual activity.”

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