Aaliyah's Loved Ones Share Lingering Questions 25 Years After Her Death

Carmit Bachar remembers the last time she saw Aaliyah like it was yesterday. “I have this image in my mind of Aaliyah and her team on the yacht as they fatefully sailed away while we all waved and collectively shouted goodbye,” Bachar exclusively tells Us, looking back on the August 2001 shoot for the late singer’s “Rock the Boat” music video, in which she served as one of nine backup dancers. “At the time, it was just a goodbye. None of us could have known what it would come to mean.” By that summer, Aaliyah had become one of music’s most promising and influential young artists. Hits like “Ba...

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