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The Latest: Anonymous person pays R. Kelly’s child support

CHICAGO — The Latest on R&B singer R. Kelly : 3 p.m. A sheriff’s official says somebody who did not want to be publicly identified handed a check to the Cook County clerk’s office for the full $161,633 back child support R. Kelly needed to be released from a Chicago jail. At the jail where Kelly was released on Saturday after $161,000 was posted in back child support, Steve Greenberg says there have been so many wild statements about the allegations but, “We haven’t seen one piece of evidence.” Greenberg also said he didn’t know how the child support will play out, whether or not a judge will reduce the $20,000 a month Kelly paid “religiously” until the allegations against him and ultimately the charges made it impossible to do. Kelly spent a weekend in jail after his arrest last month and wasn’t freed until a 47-year-old suburban Chicago business owner posted his $100,000 bail. Cook County sheriff’s spokeswoman Sophia Ansari says Kelly will be released Saturday after someone paid $161,000 in back child support for him.

Associated Press

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