After six years of repeated delays R. Kelly Trial is set to begin Friday in Chicago. He is on trial for a sex tape that was released showing R. Kelly and an alleged 13 years old girl. The victim is now 23 years old and claims that is not her in the video. Kelly could face up to 15 years if convicted. This is not R. Kellys
Kelly has settled three lawsuits accusing him of having sex with underage girls, filed in 1997, 2001 and 2002. In the third suit, the woman claimed that she began having sex with Kelly when she was 16, and that he forced her to have an abortion.
In 2003, Kelly was arrested in Florida on child pornography charges after investigators said they found photos of him having sex with a girl. Charges were dropped after a judge ruled detectives illegally seized the photographs from a digital camera in his home.
Documents show Kelly secretly married the singer Aaliyah in 1994, when she was 15. The marriage later was annulled by her parents; Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001.
