Ex-Manager Testifies Against R Kelly About Late Singer Aaliyah Haughton

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.

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. "I went to the welfare office, and I walked in, and I said, 'Hey wanna make some money?'" Smith, now 65, said during the dramatic afternoon at the Brooklyn courthouse where Kelly is on trial for crimes including racketeering, bribery and sexual exploitation of a child. Smith told the jury Kelly and his associates hatched the wedding plan because Aaliyah had said she was pregnant -- and Kelly feared "jail."