2023-08-26 09:10:45
USA
R. Kelly has to pay millions to his victims from prison
After two jail terms, former music star R. Kelly has now been fined over $10 million.
Published26. Aug 2023, 11:10 am
R. Kelly has to pay his victims a total of more than ten million dollars.
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The former pop superstar was sentenced to 30 years in prison in a 2022 abuse trial.
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Judge Harry Leinenweber announced in Chicago that following serving the 30-year sentence already imposed in New York last year…
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… he had to serve another year of a 20-year prison sentence for child pornography.
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The judge ruled largely once morest the prosecution’s request that the Grammy winner serve the two sentences consecutively rather than simultaneously.
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This gives the now 56-year-old a chance to be released once more when he is around 80 years old.
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R. Kelly has to pay his victims millions of dollars.
His former manager Donell Russell also has to answer for the sum.
Russell and Kelly reportedly threatened that if a docuseries aired, someone would “shoot the place down”.
The convicted sex offender R. Kelly (56) has been sentenced to a fine in the tens of millions in another court case. According to court documents, the former music superstar has to pay six of his victims a total of 10.5 million US dollars (regarding 9.2 million francs). For the individual women, this results in a compensation sum of between 1.1 and 2.25 million US dollars or around 972,000 to 1,990,000 francs.
Ex-manager also has to shell out buses
In addition to Kelly, his former manager Donnell Russell must also be responsible for this sum, it is said. The reason for the punishment: the two men are said to have tried together with a perfidious threat to stop a screening of the documentary series “Surviving R. Kelly” in 2018. First, the duo tried to intimidate the women who have their say in the documentary and the producers of the series. When this didn’t have the desired effect, Kelly and Russell threatened that “someone would shoot down the place”.
This supposed “terrorist threat” actually meant that the event in New York City ultimately had to be cancelled. The victims then complained that the incident caused them to suffer further post-traumatic stress disorders and panic attacks. The competent US court has now agreed with them, as the celebrity portal “TMZ” reports.
Will Kelly ever get free?
In June 2022, R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York City on charges of exploiting and abusing minors. In February of this year, another guilty verdict followed in Chicago for the production of child pornography and sex with minors. However, the prison sentence of 20 years pronounced there is largely offset once morest the previously imposed sentence. Only one more year was added to the prison sentence, and the 56-year-old will spend 31 years behind bars.
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