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R. Kelly Wants to Be Released From Jail Due to Pandemic Outbreak

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R. Kelly Hit With New Charges, Including Crimes Against a Minor

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Cops Called to R. Kelly's Home During Fight Between His Girlfriends

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Aaliyah's Ex Damon Dash Speaks Out About R. Kelly Relationship

Aaliyah‘s ex-boyfriend Damon Dash is sharing his thoughts on her relationship with R. Kelly.

The 48-year-old entrepreneur and co-founder of Roc-A-Fella opened up in a clip from the upcoming series Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning, posted by TMZ on Thursday (January 2).

R. Kelly is currently incarcerated, facing charges of sex-trafficking, sexual assault, and child pornography.

Aaliyah was like the sacrificial lamb for all that, bro, because she didn’t deserve none of that,” Damon says in the preview. “Good soul, good girl, and wasn’t even really so resentful — like, ‘Let that man live, but keep him the f— away from me.’ That’s all she wanted, she was just happy to be away.”

Damon and Aaliyah met in 2000 and dated until she died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22.

Damon says he knew “the whole story,” remarking, “I know it was the cover-up and all of that, but how does that cover it up? It just made the conversation less crazy, like, ‘Oh, he married a child.’”

“That was a headline, that was like, a rumor,” Damon continued. “That was something talked about like it was normal. It wasn’t like, ‘Ew, disgusting, you married a 13-year-old.’ It was like, ‘Oh you married Aaliyah?’ She’s 13.”

The interviewer then corrects Damon Dash to let him know that Aaliyah was 15, not 13, when she and R. Kelly got married, to which Damon replied, “Yeah, but 15 is 13, man. I don’t have to be accurate because I don’t care. 15, 13, anything under 18 is disgusting. She was a child.”

Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning will air in three parts on January 2, 3, and 4.

READ MORE: Beyonce Remembers Aaliyah 15 Years After Her Death

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.”

READ MORE: R. Kelly’s Girlfriend Joycelyn Savage Says She is a ‘Victim’ of His Sexual & Psychological Abuse

R. Kelly's Girlfriend Joycelyn Savage Says She is a 'Victim' of His Sexual & Psychological Abuse

One of R. Kelly‘s girlfriends is no longer defending him.

After defending him in an interview back in March, Joycelyn Savage, who has been living with the 52-year-old rapper since she was 19, is opening up about her experience with him, saying that she is a “victim” of his sexual and psychological abuse.

In her first post to a Patreon page created to share her testimonials, the 24-year-old aspiring model and singer talked about meeting R. Kelly at a concert back in 2015, where he told her that he would help her become a singer.

“Robert would always look at me in a sexual way the first couple of times we met occasionally,” Joycelyn wrote before adding that after several months together, R. Kelly would have her address him as “master” or “daddy.”

“It started getting worse by day by day, he would raise his voice at me if I didn’t call him by those two names,” Joycelyn wrote. “If Robert called me I would have to reply with ‘Yes, daddy’ or ‘Please daddy’ he was so controlling.”

Joycelyn continued: “I can say I didn’t have any type of privacy at all now that I think of it. If I showered one of his assistant would have to be by the door while I shower. At the moment I kept thinking to myself why is all of this, does he think I will run away? Or go back home. That’s exactly what he thought he didn’t want me to leave at all.”

Joycelyn then alleges that R. Kelly would ask her, “’All this can stop today, you want a career?’ Or do you want to live a normal life[?]‘”

Joycelyn did not comment on the status of her relationship with R. Kelly today.

R. Kelly is currently in federal prison after being arrested earlier in July, and is accused of having sex with minors.

R. Kelly Was a No-Show at His Sex Assault Hearing Due to Infected Toe

R. Kelly is not showing up to court.

The 52-year-old musician, who is facing several sexual assault allegations from women and young girls, did not attending his status hearing on Wednesday (October 30) in Chicago, Ill.

The reason, reportedly according to his lawyer Steven Greenberg, is because he has an infected toe, and feared that it might be stepped on while being transported to the courthouse from the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

He was reportedly excused after his lawyer told Judge Harry Leinenweber that he lost his toenail due to the infection and is wearing a walking boot to cope with pain.

He faces sex trafficking charges, sexual assault and child pornography charges in several cities around the country. He maintains his innocence and pled not guilty earlier in the summer to all charges.

READ MORE: R. Kelly Pleads Not Guilty & Gets Bail Denied in Sexual Assault Case in Chicago