R. Kelly‘s former sufferers were awarded thousands and thousands for warnings leveled in opposition to a few of his sufferers who seemed within the “Surviving R. Kelly” docuseries.
Consistent with the doctors, got via TMZ, 6 of the disgraced singer’s sufferers 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 his or her a success attempt to close i’m sick a December 2018 NYC screening of ‘Surviving.’
They alleged the defendants waged a marketing campaign, founding again in Would possibly 2018, to intimidate the ladies, A&E/Lifetime and the manufacturers to restrain screening the docuseries. When the ones efforts, together with prison warnings, failed … they claimed Kelly’s camp referred to as manufacturers at the evening of the NYC screening and mentioned any person was once “going to shoot up the place.”
The pretend collection capturing blackmail labored, as the development was once close i’m sick — and in step with the sufferers, all of it spread out date shock and led to them struggling PTSD and panic assaults.
The judgment in opposition to Kelly and Russell way each and every of the 6 ladies will have to get anyplace 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 track continues to be producing income. As we reported, simply over $500k of his royalties from Common Song Team are committing to pay restitution he owed sufferers from one among his federal intercourse crimes circumstances.
Kelly is lately serving a 30-year prison sentence.