Aaliyah, whose image is shown here in 2002 at the American Music Awards, is among the alleged victims of R. Kelly, the R&B singer accused of sexual abuse
NEW YORK: This month marks 20 years since the death of Aaliyah, who at age 22 was killed in a plane crash that sent international shockwaves as contemporary R&B lost one of its burgeoning stars.
The grim milestone on Aug 25 will fall just a week after testimony in the trial of R. Kelly is due to begin, court proceedings that have evoked Aaliyah’s name over her relationship with her one-time mentor.
For more than a quarter-century Kelly, now 54, has faced lurid accusations including child pornography, sex with minors, operating a sex cult and sexual battery.
And most discussions of the singer’s alleged pattern of abuse begin with his…
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