The former manager of American musician, R. Kelly, Donnell Russell, has been sentenced to jail for stalking the singer’s sexual assault victims.
The Chicago district attorney revealed in July that Donnell threatened to release nude pictures of an unidentified victim if she continued to pursue her lawsuit against the singer as the statement read in part, “Between November 2018 and February 2020, Russell, a self-described manager, advisor and friend of Kelly, used the mail, phones and the internet to harass and intimidate Jane Doe, a victim in the Kelly case, and her mother after Jane Doe filed a civil lawsuit against R. Kelly.”
Russell also threatened to reveal sexually explicit photographs of Jane Doe and to publicly reveal her sexual history if she did not withdraw her lawsuit against Kelly and ‘cease her participation and association with the organisers’ of a ‘negative campaign’ against Kelly.Russell had earlier pleaded guilty to threatening, harassing, and intimidating Kelly’s victims during the singer’s trial. 
Meanwhile,Robert Sylvester Kelly was sentenced by a Brooklyn Federal Court to 30 years in prison for recruiting and trapping teenagers and women for sex in June.A New York jury also found him guilty of leading a decade-long sex crime ring, in September 2021.
On Thursday, a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Russell to 20 months in prison following his guilty plea.
