Self-described R. Kelly manager and advisor pleads guilty to interstate stalking
foxnews.comSelf-described manager and advisor to R&B singer R. Kelly pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Brooklyn federal court to interstate stalking a victim in Kelly's racketeering case.
Donnell Russell, a 47-year-old Chicago resident, was accused of using "mail, phones and the internet" to "harass and intimidate" Kelly's victim along with her mother between November 2018 and February 2020, according to a statement released by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
He could face up to five years in prison following his Nov. 17 sentencing if convicted on all charges. The guilty plea comes after he was convicted Friday of making a phone call threatening gunfire in a Manhattan theater where a Kelly documentary was expected to be screened.
He was found guilty by a Manhattan federal court jury. "Through the use of intimidation tactics, Russell repeatedly and purposefully worked to silence ‘Jane Doe’ from revealing the emotional and physical trauma inflicted on her by R Kelly and his associates.
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