{"id":345604,"date":"2021-09-29T01:47:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T22:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aaliyahs-uncle-says-karma-finally-caught-up-to-r-kelly\/"},"modified":"2021-09-29T01:47:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T22:47:58","slug":"aaliyahs-uncle-says-karma-finally-caught-up-to-r-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aaliyahs-uncle-says-karma-finally-caught-up-to-r-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"#Aaliyah&#8217;s uncle says karma finally caught up to R. Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Aaliyah&#8217;s uncle says karma finally caught up to R. Kelly<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Karma is finally catching up to R. Kelly, the uncle of late singer Aaliyah told The Post \u2014 one day after the pervy crooner was convicted of sexually abusing women and children for decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you got to pay the price for what you\u2019ve done. He\u2019s had too many second chances,\u201d said producer Barry Hankerson, 74, who introduced his niece to the R&amp;B star when she was 12 before the pair illegally wed. \u201cHe\u2019s going to get whatever he\u2019s got coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aaliyah may have been as young as 13 when Kelly, then in his mid-20s, began sexually abusing her after the two started collaborating on her debut album, \u201cAge Ain\u2019t Nothing But a Number,\u201d according to trial testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Hankerson has insisted he didn\u2019t know the \u201cBump n\u2019 Grind\u201d singer was preying on his protege.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/r-kelly-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"R. Kelly\" class=\"wp-image-19624830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/r-kelly-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/r-kelly-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/r-kelly-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>R. Kelly faces 10 years to life in prison at his sentencing, which is scheduled for May 4, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The multiplatinum Grammy-winning recording artist, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was 27 when he married 15-year-old Aaliyah using a fake ID because he thought she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-medium-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"322\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/aaliyah.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322\" alt=\"Aaliyah\" class=\"wp-image-19624835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/aaliyah.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=644 644w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/aaliyah.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=483 483w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/aaliyah.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/aaliyah.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=161 161w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/aaliyah.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\"\/><figcaption>R. Kelly married Aaliyah when she was just 15. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He allegedly hatched the marital scheme to dodge criminal charges for sex with a minor and block her from testifying about the abuse, his manager told jurors during the Brooklyn federal court trial.<\/p>\n<p>Hankerson claimed that his niece \u201cdidn\u2019t look up to R. Kelly or the people in his orbit, she didn\u2019t want to be around them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Aaliyah tragically died in a plane crash in 2001, Hankerson said he ignored the \u201cIgnition\u201d singer\u2019s calls and the two haven\u2019t spoken in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, 54, was convicted of all nine counts against him, including racketeering and violations of the Mann Act, which prohibits the transport of people across state lines for an immoral purpose. He faces 10 years to life in prison at his sentencing, which is scheduled for May 4, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors painted Kelly as a predator who used his fame and a network of employees and friends to sexually exploit and physically abuse women, girls and boys.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Aaliyah-R-Kelly.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Case agent Ryan Chabot testifies as a CD cover of the 1994 debut album of late singer Aaliyah's &quot;Age Ain't Nothing but a Number&quot;, produced by R. Kelly, is shown on a screen during R. Kelly's sex abuse trial at Brooklyn's Federal District Court in a courtroom sketch in New York, U.S., September 14, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19624836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Aaliyah-R-Kelly.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Aaliyah-R-Kelly.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Aaliyah-R-Kelly.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The cover of Aaliyah\u2019s \u201cAge Ain\u2019t Nothing but a Number\u201d album, produced by R. Kelly, was shown during R. Kelly\u2019s sex abuse trial.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Jane Rosenberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Hankerson was asked how he thought Aaliyah would have reacted to the verdict, he said, \u201cI don\u2019t speak for her, she isn\u2019t here to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s attorney Devereaux Cannick didn\u2019t im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely respond to a request for comment.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Kelly, the uncle of late singer Aaliyah told The Post \u2014 one day after the pervy crooner was convicted of sexually abusing women and children for decades. \u201cI think you got to pay the price for what you\u2019ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/r-kelly-3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[116686,106995,72166,4998,79330,72356],"class_list":["post-345604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-28-21","tag-aaliyah","tag-brooklyn-federal-court","tag-crime","tag-r-kelly","tag-sex-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}