Representatives for R Kelly have released a statement in response to rumours that the singer was under police investigation over an alleged 'involvement' with a sixteen year old girl at his home in Olympia Fields, Illinois, where the age of consent is seventeen.
Reports had said that Kelly's home had been raided by police seeking a young woman rumoured to be staying with the R&B star, on the eve of his recent tour of Africa, and sources were quoted as saying that police were "gathering evidence that included signed affidavits from several witnesses within R Kelly's circle".
Police Chief Jeff Chudwin has said that Kelly did indeed come under investigation, but that officers "found there to be no crime and the matters have been closed". Meanwhile, Kelly's people have called the reports "wildly exaggerated and inaccurate", saying: "No police ever showed up at Kelly's house with a search warrant nor was his house ever searched. It is also not true ... that any such girl ever stayed overnight in Kelly's house or that she had been there but left shortly before some mythical police search".
As previously reported, Kelly has been charged of having sexual relationships with underage teenagers before, but was acquitted of those charges last year.