R. Kelley’s Former Manager Sentenced For Shooting Threat
Donnell Russell, one-time manager for singer R. Kelley, has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for calling in a shooting threat in 2018 in a successful attempt to disrupt a screening of the documentary ‘Surviving R. Kelley.'
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Donnell Russell, one-time manager for singer R. Kelley, has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for calling in a shooting threat in 2018 in a successful attempt to disrupt a screening of ‘Surviving R. Kelley,’ a documentary series that recounted sexual abuse accusations against the singer. Prosecutors recounted how Russell worked to suppress allegations against R. Kelley, Jennifer Peltz reports for the Associated Press.
A jury convicted Russell in July on charges of threatening physical harm through interstate communication and, in a separate case, Russell also pleaded guilty to interstate stalking charges for threatening and publishing revenge porn of one of R. Kelley’s accusers. He was sentenced to 20 months in prison on those charges last month. He will be allowed to serve both sentences simultaneously.
R. Kelley was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Brooklyn for sex trafficking and racketeering in June, convicted in Chicago for producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex in September, and is still facing state-level sexual abuse cases in Chicago and Minnesota.
