Victims of R. Kelly documentary series awarded $10.5 million for terrorist threats

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R. Kelly's former victims have received millions for threats made against some of his victims who appeared in the documentary series "Surviving R. Kelly".

According to documents obtained by TMZ, 6 of the disgraced singer's victims receive a total of approximately $10.5 million from Kelly and his former manager, Donnell Russell. The women had sued Kelly and Russell for successfully preventing a screening of "Surviving" in New York in December 2018.

They alleged that the defendants waged a campaign, as early as May 2018, to intimidate women, A&E/Lifetime and producers into stopping screening the docuseries. When those efforts, including legal threats, failed...they claimed Kelly's camp called the producers the night of the New York screening and told them someone "was going to shoot the place." ".

The fake threat of a mass shooting worked, as the event was cut short - and according to the victims, it all reawakened past traumas and left them suffering from post-traumatic stress and panic attacks.< /p>

The judgment against Kelly and Russell means that each of the six women should receive between $1.1 and $2.25 million. The question is, will they ever get a dime of that?

The good news for them is that R. Kelly's music is still generating revenue. As we reported, just over $500,000 of his royalties from Universal Music Group will be used to pay restitution he owed victims of one of his federal sex crimes cases.