By Yuriy Andriyashchuk
Hip-HopVibe.com Staff Writer
R. Kelly has been having child support issues for a decade now involving ex-wife Drea Kelly. He’s obligated legally to pay her $21k per month since 2009. This spring, he was arrested after failing to pay over $161,000 in late child support payments. Recently, he’s been struggling to come up with $32k in back child support in which Drea called for a judge to set a strict deadline for him to pay up. She cited the reason as R. Kelly taking his time to pay the amount.
Now, R. Kelly finally paid up the $32k that’s supposed to go towards his daughter Buku Abi and her college expenses. According to TMZ, his attorney, Steven Greenberg, says that not one more cent is due. Greenberg says R. Kelly was likely able to pay the $32k due to royalties from his music. Now, he will have to come up with his monthly $21k for July. It’ll be interesting to see if the royalties will be enough moving forward.
Greenberg added that there should be no more problems being able to pay off child support in the future as Drea will get her money. His crisis manager, Darrell Johnson, noted that he’s working on getting Kelly more paid performances so these payments won’t be an issue in the future.
Kelly is also dealing with other legal issues such as his 10 counts of aggravated sexual assault back in February involving four underage girls. 11 additional counts were added involving another underage girl at the time. Prosecutors in his home state of Illinois are also investigating an alleged prostitution ring ran by him.
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