R. Kelly‘s former victims have been awarded thousands and thousands for threats leveled towards a few of his victims who appeared within the “Surviving R. Kelly” docuseries.
According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, 6 of the disgraced singer’s victims are getting a complete of about $10.5 million from Kelly and his former supervisor, Donnell Russell. The ladies had sued Kelly and Russell for their profitable effort to close down a December 2018 NYC screening of ‘Surviving.’
They alleged the defendants waged a marketing campaign, beginning again in May 2018, to intimidate the ladies, A&E/Lifetime and the producers to cease screening the docuseries. When these efforts, together with authorized threats, failed … they claimed Kelly’s camp referred to as producers on the evening of the NYC screening and mentioned somebody was “going to shoot up the place.”
The pretend mass capturing risk labored, because the occasion was shut down — and in accordance with the victims, all of it opened up previous trauma and resulted in them struggling PTSD and panic assaults.
The judgment towards Kelly and Russell means every of the 6 ladies ought to get wherever between $1.1 million and $2.25 million. The query is will they ever get a dime of that?
The excellent news for them is R. Kelly’s music continues to be producing income. As we reported, simply over $500k of his royalties from Universal Music Group are going to pay restitution he owed victims from one among his federal intercourse crimes instances.
Kelly is at the moment serving a 30-year jail sentence.
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