Embattled Grammy Award winning singer / songwriter R. Kelly claims he's broke ahead of his sex trafficking trial in New York...
From Page Six
Kelly appeared in Brooklyn federal court for a hearing ahead of his trial, which begins Monday with jury selection.
“His finances are depleted,” his lawyer, Devereaux Cannick, told Judge Ann Donnelly. “I ask the court to give him daily copies of the transcripts.”
Prosecutors will also be allowed to present evidence that the Grammy winner had “sexual contact” with singer Aaliyah when she was as young as 13 — before the pair married in 1994 when she was 15, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Kelly is also facing charges in Illinois and Minnesota.
