A Brooklyn lawyer who formerly represented a woman that is suing singer R. Kelly was sentenced on Friday to four years of probation for lying to federal prosecutors to help her ex-con aunt keep real estate-sale proceeds that were supposed to go to the government.

Lydia Hills, 38, who also goes by Lydia Agu, initially represented Faith Rodgers, who is suing R. Kelly in Manhattan Supreme Court in what she described in court papers as a “run of the mill” sexual abuse suit against the embattled crooner — specifically that he sexually assaulted her after a concert in 2017 when she was 19 years old.

Kelly has denied the allegations.

Hills was charged in April 2016 with lying to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan in an effort to help her aunt, who did 70 months in federal prison for fraud, sell off four of the 11 properties she owned in Queens and keep some of the money that was supposed to go back to the government.

Hills said she kept working Rodgers’ case up until she was convicted in March after a three-day jury trial.

“I’m grateful that the judge made the decision that he did,” Hills told The Post after the sentencing. Prosecutors had been pushing for her to get at least 27 months in prison.

Rodgers found new attorneys for her case following Hills’ conviction and her case is still pending.

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