He is likely to be spending the following 27 years behind bars, however that isn’t stopping abuse victims of embattled R&B icon R. Kelly from attempting to gather the tens of millions the disgraced singer nonetheless owes them.
Six victims who gained a $10.3 million judgment towards Kelly in 2022 declare he’s nonetheless on the hook for greater than $9.9 million of it, and are suing to get the money from him and his report label.
Lizette Martinez, Lisa Van Allen, Kelly Rodgers, Religion Rodgers, Roderick Gartell, and Gem Pratts — all featured within the Lifetime docuseries, “Surviving R. Kelly” — stated they’ve gotten simply two funds totaling lower than $500,000, in response to their Manhattan Supreme Courtroom submitting.
They’re suing Kelly, 58, and his former report label, Common Music, and its publishing department, Common Music-Z Tunes.
The go well with additionally names Kelly’s imprisoned former supervisor, Donnell Russell, and Chicago-based IndyBuild, a income sharing platform for unbiased artists.
Kelly was ordered in August 2023 to pay the six plaintiffs $5.1 million in mixed compensatory damages and one other $4.5 million in punitive damages — plus $2,450.30 a day in curiosity, his victims contend.
Common Music’s co-publishing settlement with Kelly resulted in 2019 however the firm “remains contractually obligated to collect revenues and remit music publishing royalties to Kelly,” and that cash ought to go to the victims, in response to courtroom papers.
Attorneys for the defendants didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Kelly was as soon as adored by his followers who purchased tens of millions of his albums, even after allegations about his abuse of younger women started circulating publicly within the Nineties.
He was acquitted of kid pornography prices in Chicago in 2008, however a second trial in Chicago in 2022 ended along with his conviction on prices of manufacturing youngster pornography and attractive women for intercourse.
“Surviving R. Kelly” uncovered simply how widespread Kelly’s sexual misconduct was.
