R. Kelly’s former supervisor, Donnell Russell, is becoming a member of the disgraced artist in jail.
Russell was sentenced to twenty months in jail after pleading responsible in July to utilizing threats, harassment and intimidation, in line with Billboard. Russell stalked considered one of Kelly’s sexual abuse victims in an effort to silence her.
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Prosecutors referred to as for twenty-four to 30 months of jail time, pointing to Russell’s “abhorrent” behaviour and dozens of prior arrests.
“If victims are involved that such a conduct won’t be adequately punished, it might chill victims from pursuing authorized treatments and from cooperating with legislation enforcement investigations,” prosecutors argued.
Russell’s attorneys fought for probation, arguing that their consumer had led an “in any other case exemplary life” earlier than “crossing the road in his makes an attempt to curry favor with Robert Kelly.”
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Russell was beforehand convicted in July after calling in a gunfire menace that pressured the cancellation of Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly” collection at a theatre in Manhattan, New York.
Musical artist Kelly was convicted in 2021 on intercourse trafficking and racketeering prices, finally being sentenced to 30 years in jail.