A few of R.Kelly’s victims who were apart of the ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ docuseries have been awarded a hefty amount of money after the 2018 screening of the series was shut down due to terrorist threats so a judge decided to award them some monetary compensation for everything they had to go through.
According to documents obtained by TMZ, six of the singer’s victims will be awarded $10.5 million dollars which is coming from Kelly and his manager, Donnell Russell. As we previously reported, the women sued Kelly after the New York City screening of ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ was shut down. In the lawsuit the victims had claimed R.Kelly was behind a campaign back in 2018 to intimidate the women and the producers so they wouldn’t screen the series. After his teams alleged threats failed it was reported that someone from Kelly’s camp contacted producers on the night of the NYC screening and said someone was going to “shoot up the place.” So after that threat the screening was shut down. according to the victims that incident, opened up past trauma and resulted in them suffering PTSD and panic attacks.
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Apparently, R. Kelly and his peoples didn’t want the public to hear his victims’ side of their story and will now have to pay dearly for it. Each of the six women will be compensated with a little more than $1 million each for their pain and suffering.
As we previously shared, R.Kelly recently spoke out from jail and revealed how he feels like he’s not being treated fairly because he’s a celebrity. During the convo with Wack100, Kelly said he wrote down a few things that he wanted to speak about. “The 14th amendment is equal protection under the law the 5th and 6th amendment deals with due process. Everyone must have a fair process, and there should not be a celebrity version of the constitution when it comes to going to trial. The law is not just song they can remix to satisfy their agenda.”
He continued saying, “no matter what some people may think or believe about R. Kelly they’re entitled to their opinions but I want people to remember this our constitutional rights are supposed to look like their constitution rights. Their due process is supposed to look like my due process. My equal right are supposed to like just equal rights, meaning equal.”
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The last time we heard audio from Kelly surfacing on the internet the singer expressed how he was “scared for my life” inside prison. He claimed that he “almost died” after having blood clots in his legs, which he alleged were neglected by medical staff at the prison.
On June 19, RapHouseTV uploaded audio to their various social media pages, reporting that R. Kelly, full name Robert Kelly, recently expressed concerns from behind bars in a Chicago prison. Currently, Kelly is serving a 30-year prison sentence in his hometown after being found guilty of sex trafficking.
On the audio clip obtained by the rap news outlet, Kelly claimed that animals receive better treatment than he has been afforded while sitting inside of Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. He claimed that he is in fear of losing his life due to alleged negligence on behalf of the facility’s medical staff. He alleged that they botched a procedure where he was having the blood clots in his legs treated.