CELEBRITY NEWS: Aaliyah's Ex-Boyfriend Damon Dash Says It's 'Disgusting' R. Kelly Would Marry a Child

Aaliyah’s ex-boyfriend Damon Dash is once again speaking out about the late singer’s relationship with R. Kelly.
On Thursday, TMZ published a preview of Dash’s interview from Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning — the upcoming follow-up to Lifetime’s bombshell documentary series about Kelly, 52, who is currently incarcerated and facing charges of sex-trafficking, sexual assault and child pornography spread throughout Brooklyn, Chicago and Minneapolis.
“Aaliyah was like the sacrificial lamb for all that, bro, because she didn’t deserve none of that,” Dash, 48, said in the clip. “Good soul, good girl, and wasn’t even really so resentful — like, ‘Let that man live, but keep him the f— away from me.’ That’s all she wanted, she was just happy to be away.”
In 1994 it was widely reported that Kelly (born Robert Sylvester Kelly) and Aaliyah had secretly gotten married. News outlets made public a marriage certificate that listed Aaliyah’s age as 18, though she would have been 15 at the time. Meanwhile, Kelly was 27 at the time.
Kelly and Aaliyah never addressed the reports about the nature of their relationship, but in
Surviving R. Kelly, Kelly’s former personal assistant Demetrius Smith claimed he was present at the wedding and admitted to obtaining false documents for underaged Aaliyah.
Last month, Kelly pleaded not guilty to a recent federal charge accusing him of bribing an Illinois government employee to issue Aaliyah a fake ID, so that he could legally marry her, according to multiple outlets.
The new bribery allegation against Kelly expanded on the existing indictment brought against him in the summer of 2019.