Federal prosecutors charged singer R. Kelly on Thursday with bribing a government official to obtain a fake identity card for late singer Aaliyah, who he allegedly married when she was 15 years old in 1994. Prosecutors in New York said in an indictment that Kelly, who was 27 years old at the time, bribed an Illinois government employee to get the fake ID, enabling him and Aaliyah to obtain a marriage license listing her age as 18, The New York Times reported citing a person familiar with the matter. The marriage was annulled by her parents in 1995; Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001. read more https://www.huffpost.com/entry/r-kelly-charged-aaliyah-marriage_n_5de99459e4b0913e6f8d9d20
