Singer R. Kelly released from jail after back child-support payment made
- An unknown person paid $US161,000 to secure Kelly’s release from a Chicago jail
R&B singer R. Kelly walked out of a Chicago jail on Saturday, soon after someone paid US$161,000 that he owed in back child support.
Kelly was ordered taken into custody on Wednesday by a judge after he said that he did not have the entire US$161,000 he owed in child support. As is done with other high-profile inmates, Kelly was held in a solo cell under round-the-clock observation.
Sophia Ansari, a spokeswoman for Cook County Sheriff’s Department, which operates the jail, did not immediately know who paid the back child support.
The trip to jail was Kelly’s second in a matter of weeks. Last month, after he was charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse pertaining to four women, including three who were minors when the alleged abuse occurred, he was taken to the same jail.
Kelly, whose lawyer said at the time that the singer’s finances were in disarray, then spent a weekend in jail before a 47-year-old suburban Chicago business owner posted his US$100,000 bail.
