R. Kelly's former tour manager on Friday said he bribed a worker at a public aid office to get false identification saying the late singer Aaliyah was of age, so she could marry the R&B star now on trial for sex crimes.
Testifying under a grant of immunity from later prosecution, Demetrius Smith -- who worked for Kelly for more than a decade in the 1980s and 1990s -- said he paid a worker $500 to secure the then-15-year-old Aaliyah Haughton a fake ID, used shortly thereafter to wed Kelly, who was then 27.
