'If people would've protected Aaliyah, so many other girls wouldn't have gotten touched,' Damon Dash says in the new docuseries.
Patrick RyanDamon Dash is speaking out about R. Kelly's relationship with then-underage singer Aaliyah.
In the first new episode airing on Lifetime Thursday , Dash says Aaliyah tried to distance herself from Kelly after their secret marriage when she was just 15. Kelly was recently charged with bribing an Illinois government official in August 1994 to obtain a fake ID for the singer, who was illegally married to Kelly for six months before her parents annulled the marriage in February 1995.
Kelly, who was 27 at the time, has since pleaded not guilty to the charge, although his former tour manager, Demetrius Smith, has admitted to helping the disgraced artist obtain the fake ID.Dash, 48, dated Aaliyah for a year until she died at 22 in a plane crash in August 2001. He blames the people who worked with Kelly, as well as the media, for helping cover up and brush aside Kelly's allegedly predatory behavior.
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