This lawsuit adds to Kelly’s legal troubles as he serves a 30-year prison sentence for various charges of child pornography and sex trafficking. In January, he said he didn’t know about a $10.5 million judgment awarded to a group of women over alleged threats he made to cancel a screening of the docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.” He argued that if he had known about the lawsuit, he would have fought it.
Kelly also claims he needs his attorneys to explain legal documents to him because he “cannot read or understand words beyond that of a grade-schooler.”
Along with Donnell Russell, his manager at the time, who received a one-year prison sentence in 2022, Kelly faced allegations of threatening to silence six women who shared accounts of their alleged encounters with him in the docuseries.
They allegedly threatened legal action against the women and the producers of the series.
In the latest court documents, Kelly says Russell was never his manager and believes Russell should be held responsible for any legal action if he threatened to stop the screening because “he did that for his own reasons.”
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