- R. Kelly is finally admitting that he had a sexual relationship with Aaliyah. The confession comes three decades after Kelly and Aaliyah were illegally married when he was 27 and she was 15.
- In a statement with The Independent, Kelly’s lawyer, Thomas A Farinella, wrote“The defence does concede that Mr. Kelly had underage sexual contact with Jane Doe #1.”
- Kelly’s lawyers had attempted to dismiss claims from prosecutors due to“Jane Doe’s untimely death.”Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001 at the age of 22.
- In 1994 Aaliyah said in an interview that she was “close”to R. Kelly but never admitted to marrying him. The marriage was ultimately annulled by Aaliyah’s parents shortly after the ceremony.