Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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R. Kelly was 27 yrs old when he married 15 yr old Aaliyah in a secret ceremony on Aug 31, 1994. In 1998, Kelly settled a lawsuit with Tiffany Hawkins for $250,000 after she claimed Kelly had induced her to have group sex with other teenage girls when she was 15 years old. On Feb 3, 2002, a video surfaced allegedly showing Kelly engaging in sex with, and urinating on, an underage girl. In Jun 2002, Kelly was indicted on 21 counts of child pornography. In that same month on Jun 6, 2002, Kelly was arrested on a arrest warrant at his home, Kelly was later released after one night in jail on a bail bond posted of $750,000. While investigating the photographs, a search of Kelly's home recovered 12 images of an alleged underage girl on a digital camera – wrapped in a towel in a duffel bag – which allegedly depicted Kelly "involved in sexual conduct with the female minor." The girl in the images also appears in the videotape which got Kelly indicted in Chicago. Kelly was arrested on Jan 22, 2003 on those charges of 12 counts of possession of child pornography. Kelly was later released from a jail hours after on a bond posted of $12,000. In March 2004, these charges were dropped due to a lack of probable cause for the search warrants.

In a divorce court filing unsealed in 2020, Kelly's former wife Andrea claims that Kelly was accused of molesting a preteen girl in 2009.

On Feb 22, 2019, Kelly was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. The charges allege that from 1998 to 2010, Kelly sexually abused four females, three of whom were teen minors at the time, with evidence including a video that depicts a new crime. Kelly turned himself in and was arrested and taken into custody. The judge set a $1 million bond, and ordered Kelly to have no contact with any minor under 18 or alleged victim. Kelly pleaded not guilty, SHOCKER, to all charges. He was released on bail after three nights in jail.

On July 11, 2019, Kelly was arrested on federal charges alleging sex crimes and obstruction of justice. The next day, federal prosecutors from New York and Chicago indicted Kelly on 18 charges, including child sexual exploitation, child pornography production, kidnapping, forced labor, racketeering, and obstruction of justice. Indictments were filed in Chicago on Feb 13, 2020, and in New York on March 13, 2020, raising the total number of charges to 22. Kelly was in jail from July 11, 2019 to June 23, 2021. Kelly's awaiting sentencing Chicago trial date is scheduled for Sept 13, 2021. On June 23, 2021, Kelly was transferred to Brooklyn and is awaiting a sentencing trial date that was originally scheduled for Aug 9, 2021. However on July 8, 2021, after Kelly appeared in Brooklyn federal court for the first time, his New York trial date was pushed over to Aug 18, 2021 to allow for Kelly to review materials with his new legal team, which he retained less than a month earlier.

On Aug 5, 2019, Kelly was charged with soliciting a minor and prostitution; prosecutors alleged that in July 2001, following a concert in Minneapolis, Kelly had invited a girl up to his hotel room and paid her $200 to remove her clothing and dance with him.

In July 2021, Federal prosecutors asked the court to include alleged evidence of bribes, recordings of threats and more allegations of sexual abuse of minors, including an underaged boy he met at McDonald's, as pattern evidence in his trial.

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