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R. Kelly arraigned on bribe charge linked to Aaliyah wedding

Tom Hays The Associated Press
Published Wednesday, December 18, 2019 5:43PM EST

This combination photo shows singer R. Kelly after the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago on May 9, 2008, left, the late R&B singer and actress Aaliyah during a photo shoot in New York on May 9, 2001. (AP Photo/File)

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NEW YORK -- Singer R. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to charges he schemed to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female the day before he married teen R&B singer Aaliyah in 1994.

Kelly entered the plea on Wednesday in via a video feed from Chicago where he's jailed while facing multiple criminal charges.

The latest charge involving the fake ID was filed earlier this month in federal court in Brooklyn.

Aaliyah was 15 when she wed R. Kelly in a secret ceremony.

She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22 after marriage was annulled.