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Jan
R. Kelly silenced Aaliyah and her family through a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), following his marriage and subsequent annulment to the then-15-year-old singer. The new allegations were made in the final instalment of Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly,” which aired on Jan. 2 and Jan. 3. The docuseries centred around R. Kelly’s 2022 federal trial where the NDA was brought up in the courtroom as evidence. The late Aaliyah was Jane Doe #1 in the trial. “Surviving R. Kelly” utilizes Aaliyah’s story to spotlight her as a victim of R. Kelly, after years of the media and music industry scandalizing her marriage to the now-convicted…