R. Kelly's former tour manager bribed an employee to marry 15-year-old Aaliyah

2021-08-21T05:51:34.742Z

Kelly's former tour manager confessed in a courtroom that he bribed a public official in the 1990s to obtain false documents attesting to the age of majority of singer Aaliyah so that she, at the time a minor, could marry the star, now on trial for sexual crimes. Demetrius Smith, who joined the R&B singer for a decade between the 1980s and 1990s, claimed to have paid $ 500 to obtain a false identity card for the young woman who was 15 at the time of the wedding while the singer 27.