kelly's one time proteÉgee, aaliyah dana haughton.st album, titled, appropriately enough, "age ain't nothing but a number." ♪ age ain't nothing but a number >> before kelly and aaliyah married, backup singer javonte cunningham says she saw the couple engaging in sex acts on the tour bus. what did you see when you pulled open that door where r. kelly was? >> him having inappropriate behavior with a child. >> reporter: aaliyah's mother has publicly refuted javonte's story, and after a few months, aaliyah and kelly's marriage was annulled. aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001. was this the only time that you ever saw r. kelly with an underaged girl? >> no. it was the only time i saw him with her, but it was not the first time that i saw him with someone who was underage. he just doesn't have a filter. there's no gauge. there's no moral clock. >> reporter: javonte told no one, even when she says a close friend was also sexually abused by kelly. do you have regrets? >> wow. absolutely. i wasn't there for her, and i regret that. i regret a

request for visitors to behave more respectful way i want to talk about all this is the public fully aaliyah's so pablo what exactly has led the museum and to issue this special request well it's pretty shocking first and foremost that they've actually felt the need to have to do this and it's not that difficult to actually find photographs we're going to see some of that are just quite frankly just desperately of just they're just really poor people smiling laughing jumping the kind of things that you'd see you know at the beach or in a park or you know at a party but no they're there you know it's or in auschwitz let us not forget that this is a place where at one point one million people were murdered by the nazis it's a concentration camp we come for get this and obviously there's some lack of you know understanding of really of where they are. and the thing about auschwitz is you know we're seeing these awful images from the second world war where you know one point three million people actually pass through i was fits like a seventy four one point one million people were murdered there y

but his desire for young women, well documented, even when his marriage to aaliyah was annulled. she was 15 at the time of their marriage. >> he asked me how old i was, i to told him i was 17. >> why did be in notice? because we black girls. >> reporter: and dozens of women in that lifetime docuseries. >> it's been almost two years now, and we still haven't seen our daughter. >> reporter: timothy savage alleges his daughter has been held captive and sexually abused by r. kelly for four years. >> we got a call from her, and she told us she was with r. kelly. we was lakike, what are you doi? you're in college. >> reporter: in kelly's interview with gayle king, he rejected claims he's held women against their will. >> correct me if i'm wrong. you've never held anybody against their will. >> i don't need to, why would i? how stupid would it be for r. kelly, with all i've been through in my way, way past to hold somebody, let alone four or five, six, 50, you said, how stupid would i be to do that? >> i didn't say you were holding -- >> that's stupid, guys. is this camera on me? >> yes

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there was a young lady who said she claimed she saw him having sex with aaliyah., the artist who he allegedly married when she was 15 years old. and later passed away. it was fascinating. that was a remarkable interview. again, i think everyone is so shocked that it went on for so long. if you look at prior interviews where he's left when it goes too deep, he leaves. you were able to keep him in that chair, and he did compose himself. and he continued on -- >> he said, i've been silent for too long while people were saying all these things. i want people to hear from my own mouth. in the end, he said, "thank you for giving me the platform to say this." we asked, do you want to take a break, do you want a tissue? no, leave me alone. let me talk. that's what we did. >> we'll be waiting to see what happens as this goes to trial potentially. that is the opinion that matters the most. the 12 jurors -- >> not the social media. >> -- deciding whether or not there's enough evidence. >> the thing that got to him most was the relationship with his children. he became most e

but aaliyah, he never addresses that. she was 15. you don't address that. >> i don't know her.t around. i can't speak on something i don't know nothing about. there's never been criminal charges. i've heard a lot of things about -- some other people. >> but you're representing him. shouldn't you know about that? >> i'm not an attorney. my job is to deal with what's happening right now. i'm not going to call anybody, but i would say my client has professed his innocence. that's what he's professed. he will have his day in court. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> really appreciate it. darrell johnson. we'll be right back. slippery. nooooo... noooo... nooooo... yeeeesss... quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty picks up messes quicker and is 2x more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand. hey look, i got it. bounty, the quicker picker upper. audible members know listening has the power to change us make us better parents, better leaders, better people. and there's no better place to listen than audible. with audible you get a credit good for any audiobook and exclusive fi

even in the 1990s, he was alleged to have married the singer aaliyah, when she was 15 and he was 27,in the early 20005, a sex tape video came out that purportedly showed him having sex with a 14—year—old girl, he was cleared of that, and since then, there's really been allegations on two levels, one is that he has engaged in sexual activities with underage girls, and the other is he is operating a sex cult where he is keeping women locked up and telling them what to eat and what to wear and being abusive. and the last two years, three years, they have reallyjust vamped up. people i have spoken to, five of the women who have had relationships with him, tour managers who have worked with him and studio managers, and they all paint a picture that he stayed in a studio late at night, he had women coming in constantly, a lot of people were not allowed to talk to the women, he was the only person who could address them, and the women, when he walked in the rooms would have to stand up and greet him when he came in, so it is dark but he was acquitted when he went to trial and this is the bi