CHICAGO: R&B superstar R. Kelly was taken into custody Wednesday for failing to pay child support, just weeks after he was detained on sex abuse charges.

The singer was unable to come up with the $161,000 he owes in payments to his ex-wife and their three children, and a judge in Chicago, where Kelly lives, ordered him arrested.

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