R. Kelly will be released from prison after someone paid his child support

R. Kelly.
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R&B singer R. Kelly will be released on Saturday from a Chicago jail, where he has been held since Wednesday for failing to pay more than $161,000 in child support.

A spokeswoman for the Cook County Sherriff's Department, which operates the jail where Kelly is being held, said that someone posted the money Kelly needed to make the payment. She did not know who posted the money, the Associated Press reports.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.