The R&B singer was arrested again hours after lashing out in a CBS interview against charges that he had sexually assaulted teenage girls.
March 6 (Reuters) — R&B singer R. Kelly was arrested on Wednesday — this time for failure to pay child support — hours after lashing out in a television interview against charges that he had sexually assaulted teenage girls.
Kelly was taken into custody in Chicago for owing more than $161,000 in child support to his three children with ex-wife Andrea Kelly.
The singer must pay the full amount to get out of jail, Cook County Sheriff’s spokesman Sam Randall said.
Kelly, 52, pleaded not guilty in February to charges that he sexually assaulted three teenage girls and a fourth woman. The charges were brought after seven women including his ex-wife, appeared on a Lifetime television documentary and accused him of emotional and sexual abuse.
The singer’s arrest on Wednesday came hours after CBS television aired parts of his first interview since being charged, in which the singer tearfully and angrily rejected allegations that he had sex with underage girls.
