The "Surviving R Kelly" documentary really upended the life of disgraceful pedophile R. Kelly. The singer current sits in a cell in his hometown at the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center. Gone are the recording studios, album releases and concerts to tens of thousands of people.

This outcome was one his manager, Donnell Russell, tried to prevent to keep the gravy train going, while innocent underage girls were collateral damage in Kelly's sick acts of sexual abuse. In standard Hollywood fashion Russell went to illegal extremes to silence Kelly's victims.

Threats were issued to individual victims. A gun threat was also phoned in before the screening of "Surviving R Kelly" which took place in 2018 in New York. Russell has been charged with two counts of "threatening physical harm by interstate communication and conspiracy to do the same."

R. Kelly's Former Manager Charged With Gun Threat To 'Surviving R. Kelly' Screening

August 14, 20201:28 PM ET - On Friday, federal prosecutors charged former R. Kelly manager Donnell Russell with calling in a gun threat to a New York advance screening of the Lifetime television docuseries Surviving R. Kelly in December 2018.

The six-part series explored allegations that the fallen R&B star has sexually abused women and girls going back to the 1990s. The disrupted advance screening at New York's NeueHouse theater was scheduled to include a panel discussion featuring several of Kelly's accusers and #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, among others.

After the threat was called in, the screening was canceled and the theater was evacuated. Russell, who was Kelly's manager at the time of the incident, is being charged with two counts of threatening physical harm by interstate communication and conspiracy to do the same...

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