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R. Kelly’s manager pleads guilty to stalking

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R. Kelly’s manager pleads guilty to stalking

The manager and adviser to R. Kelly pleaded guilty on Tuesday to an interstate stalking charge less than a week after he was convicted of making a phone threat that gunfire was about to occur in a Manhattan theater where a documentary about the singer, R. Kelly was about to be shown.

Donnell Russell, 47, of Chicago, entered the plea in Brooklyn federal court.

U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said Russell used threats, harassment, and intimidation to silence one of Kelly’s sexual abuse victims. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison last month and was convicted last year of racketeering and sex trafficking.

Peace said in a statement that Russell had sent threatening messages to the woman and her mother and had later published explicit photos of the victim on the internet.

Russell could face up to five years in prison in November 17 sentencing.

Last Friday, a Manhattan federal court jury found Russell guilty of threatening physical harm through interstate communication.

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