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(CNN) Cornell Haynes Jr., better known as the rapper Nelly, was taken into custody Saturday in Washington state after a woman told police he raped her. Police arrested Nelly in the early morning and took him to a jail in Des Moines, Washington, according to a  report  from the police department in nearby Auburn. Rapper Nelly reportedly in financial hot water   00:48 He was booked for investigation of rape in the second-degree and released a few hours later without charges being filed, according to his lawyer, Scott Rosenblum. The report says a woman called 911 at 3:48 a.m. Saturday to report the alleged assault, which she says occurred on Nelly's tour bus. Police said Nelly, 42, had performed at the White River Amphitheater in King County just hours before the phone call was made. He was arrested "after patrol officers investigated the incident," according to the report. Nelly tweeted Saturday...

Close Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand  (born September 6, 1978), better known by her stage name  Foxy Brown , is a  rapper ,  model , and  actress . She is of mixed Afro-Trinidadian, Indo-Trinidadian and Chinese Trinidadian descent. She is best known for her solo work, as well as numerous collaborations with other artists and her brief stint as part of  hip hop  group  The Firm . Raised in Brooklyn, New York, her father Winston Marchand abandoned the family at a young age to pursue his career at ERAC records. Her albums include  Ill Na Na  in 1996, followed by  Chyna Doll  in 1999, and Grammy-nominated  Broken Silence   in 2001. She also performed on the  1997 self-titled album  by the Firm, the only album to be released by that group to date. She has held an extensive arrest record and served some time in jail. After 2001, she continued recording verses for herself and other artists but di...

Backstage at the  Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California, on May 23, 2015, J. was thrilled that her 19-year-old daughter’s music career was going to make a major leap forward from recording demos and performing at talent shows to the chance of stardom — thanks to the help of an R&B superstar. “When we got to go backstage with R. Kelly, we stayed there over two hours,” said J. “One-on-one with just me and my daughter and him. We went back to talk about the music. He listened to her CD. He was going to help her with her CD, and I was really impressed with him at first, because I have always been an R. Kelly fan.” J. said that Robert “R.” Kelly, who turned 50 in January, met her daughter backstage at a concert in Atlanta earlier that month. Soon enough, he’d invited her to fly out to the Indio concert on his dime. J. said she’d heard about past sexual misconduct accusations against Kelly, but wasn’t overly worried. She is a fiercely devoted stage mom — she an...