Kelly's debut solo album landed in the Billboard 200 - and less than six months after Kelly produced Aaliyah's debut album, Age Ain't Nothing But A Number. The secret ceremony in Chicago comes less than a year after R. Kelly, then 27 years old, briefly marries Aaliyah, then 15 27, 2021: Kelly found guilty of sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, racketeering and sex traffickingĪug.
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18, 2021: Kelly's trial in New York federal court begins 5, 2019: New York prosecutors charge Kelly with bribing an official to make a fake ID for 15-year-old Aaliyah before their 1994 marriageĪug. 25, 2019: Live-in girlfriend Joycelyn Savage alleges sexual and physical abuse as well as two forced abortionsĭec. 5, 2019: Prosecutors in Hennepin County, Minn. 2, 2019: Kelly pleads not guilty to the New York federal charges judge denies him bailĪug. July 16, 2019: Kelly pleads not guilty to the Illinois federal charges judge orders him held without bondĪug. July 12, 2019: Federal prosecutors unseal new indictments against Kelly in Illinois and New York 8, the Chicago police revealed their investigation into allegations that the singer had filmed himself having sexual relations with an underage girl. Kelly performs at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
June 6, 2019: Kelly pleads not guilty to new charges May 30, 2019: Kelly is charged a second time in Illinois on new sexual assault and abuse charges March 9-10, 2019: Kelly is freed from jail again Gloria Allred alleges existence of another tape with underage girls March 6, 2019: Kelly is arrested again - this time for failure to pay child support 22, 2019: Kelly is charged on 10 counts of sexual abuse January-February 2019: More accusers tell their stories publiclyįeb. 3, 2019: Lifetime begins airing Surviving R.
4, 2018: Kelly's ex-wife accuses him of physical abuse July 23, 2018: Kelly releases 19-minute song, "I Admit" July 17, 2017: BuzzFeed publishes stories of women in Kelly's alleged sex "cult June 13, 2008: Kelly is acquitted on all counts Kelly and Aaliyah's marriage certificate, seen here in an image obtained by Chicago member station WBEZ, was issued by Cook County, Ill., in 1994. 21, 2000: Chicago Sun-Times prints first allegations of sex with minors Kelly, then 27 years old, marries Aaliyah, then 15ĭec. Jump to the story behind a specific date by clicking on the date in the list below, or simply scroll down to begin at the beginning.Īug. In particular, the many lawsuits against Kelly - beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing through the present day - have been left out for the sake of clarity. Not every notable date is included in this timeline. What follows is an attempt to explain how 25 years of controversy led to this moment. Kelly has been the subject of investigations, indictments, lawsuits and disavowals - and through it all, he has asserted that he has not committed any wrongdoing. But the roots of the broad case laid out in the six-part Lifetime docuseries, filled as it is with claims of abuse and statutory rape, date back about a quarter century at least. The R&B superstar born Robert Kelly ushered in 2019 dogged by a slew of damaging headlines - prompted by TV's Surviving R. Kelly is no stranger to unsettling allegations. Kelly arrives at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago for a pretrial hearing in early May 2019. "This case is about a predator, " she added.R. "This case is not about a celebrity who likes to party a lot, " Assistant US Attorney Maria Cruz Melendez said in her opening statement last month. From the beginning of Kelly's month-long trial, which began on August 18, prosecutors painted him as a 'predator' who used his fame and a cadre of employees to prey on young victims. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on federal charges alleging additional sex crimes, with federal prosecutors in New York and Chicago charging Kelly with kidnapping, forced labor, child sexual exploitation, child pornography production, and obstruction of justice. R Kelly has been held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago since July 2019 without bail. (Photo by Antonio Perez - Pool via Getty Images) Kelly is facing multiple sexual assault charges and is being held without bail. Kelly turns to leave after appearing at a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Septemin Chicago, Illinois.
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