R. Kelly owes IRS $5 million in unpaid taxes

By Cindy Clark, USA TODAY

Posted June 14, 2012

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In this June 13, 2008 file photo, R&B singer R. Kelly leaves the Cook County Criminal Court Building in Chicago. Kelly faces a $2.9 million foreclosure on his suburban Chicago mansion. Chicago Real Estate Daily reports July 12, 2011, that JPMorgan Chase Bank filed the foreclosure lawsuit last month in Cook County Circuit Court. The complaint states that Kelly hasnít made monthly mortgage payments since June of last year. (Credit: By M. Spencer Green, AP)

R&B star R. Kelly has already seen his suburban Chicago mansion fall into foreclosure. And now the IRS has come to collect.

Documents held by the Cook County Recorder of Deeds show the recording artist owes the IRS nearly $5 million in unpaid taxes, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

Kelly owes the money for taxes dating back as far as 2005. While he did pay $2.6 million in back taxes in 2008 and another $1 million last year, the paper reports that state records show he still owes the federal government more than $4.8 million.