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

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.

Kelly's arrest over the failed payments occurred just shortly after the 52-year-old was charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse against four women, including three who were minors

at the time of the alleged abuse. Kelly has denied any wrongdoing multiple times, including during an explosive interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning on Wednesday.

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