8:15 AM PT — The hearing just ended, and R. Kelly’s lawyer says there’s been no change in child support yet. He says they’re setting a new court date to argue the matter.
The singer and his legal team made their way into the Chicago court Wednesday morning, hoping to score a reduction in his monthly payments to his ex-wife, Drea Kelly.
As you know, Kelly was arrested last week, and sat in jail until he coughed up $161,633 … the back child support he owed Drea.
Kelly was supposed to be paying Drea $20,833 per month as of January 2009 but he fell way off schedule last year. Sources close to the singer told us he scraped together the $161k with the help of a “benefactor.”
As we reported … Kelly’s camp says the singer got into a huge fight with Drea back in 2017 and, after that, she didn’t allow their daughter and 2 sons to talk to him.
Drea calls BS … saying Kelly cut her off as a means of controlling her when she spoke out publicly about him allegedly abusing her.
Ultimately, the child support is the lesser of Kelly’s legal issues right now — with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse in Cook County hanging over his head.
Originally Published — 8:02 AM PT