R. Kelly trial: Jury will hear of illegal marriage to underage Aaliyah
USA TODAY The last pre-trial hearing before R. Kelly's federal sex-trafficking trial begins next week featured a laundry list of what will and won't be heard by the jury, including his secret marriage to then-teenage singer Aaliyah. The outline of the story of Kelly and Aaliyah, who died in a 2001 plane crash, has long been known although Kelly has never admitted to wrongdoing. They secretly married in 1994, when she was 15 and he was 27 – allegedly after he bribed a government official to obtain a fake ID for her showing her age as 18, according to a 55-page motion filed by prosecuto...
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