R. Kelly Docuseries Victims Awarded $10.5 Million for Terrorist Threats

R. Kelly‘s former victims have been awarded tens of millions for threats leveled towards a few of his victims who appeared within the “Surviving R. Kelly” docuseries.

In line with 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 his or her profitable effort to close down a December 2018 NYC screening of ‘Surviving.’

They alleged the defendants waged a marketing campaign, beginning again in Might 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 known as producers on the night time of the NYC screening and mentioned somebody was “going to shoot up the place.”

The faux mass capturing menace labored, because the occasion was shut down — and in line 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 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 music remains to be producing income. As we reported, simply over $500k of his royalties from Common Music Group are going to pay restitution he owed victims from one in every of his federal intercourse crimes instances.