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Why I think Aaliyah is relevant
IMO the marriage to Aaliyah is relevant. Part of people's feeling about Rra in this whole thing is that he has a pattern of being involved with underaged girls. If there is a long standing, allegedly substantiated rumor about a marriage to Aaliyah who was a minor at the time, that simply bolsters the appearance of a pattern. If he never was married to her, what honors her memory and image more that a bold and clear, NO I WAS NEVER EVER, EVER MARRIED TO HER! STOP TRYING TO DRAG HER NAME THROUGH THE MUD. There has never been a clear and unequivocal statement made by either side on this issue which has persisted for going on ten years. To me, that seems to indicate an inability to make a clear statement about it.
Documents can be forged- this is true. The mere fact that a reporter only had a copy of a marriage licensee- what else would they have? If you go to obtain an official record, you are going to be given a copy, albeit certified by the clerk of the court. Considering he had no standing to request the record, the best a reporter is likely to get is a copy a courthouse employee made for him on the DL.
As the rumor goes, she misrepresented her age in order to get the marriage license. Again, for her to do that lends itself to the image of him as a manipulator of young girls. How are you, as the ADULT going to have her lying and committing a fraud on the state to marry you? If they were married, legally with her parents consent, it would have had to be in writing and therefore there would not have been grounds to have it annulled (annulment requires fraud of some kind, if everything is done properly, there is no fraud.)
Further, I have no doubt that one of their camps would have taken action a long time ago to stop the media’s reporting of the marriage if they could have. Both have avoided the question for years. After a while, no comment starts to sound like "yeah, that's true but I can't talk about it." If it did happen, I am sure there was a legal agreement between the two parties preventing them from talking about it anyway.
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