R. Kelly Takes Issue With $10.5 Million Lawsuit Awarded To Six Women

R. Kelly is pushing back against a $10.5 million lawsuit he lost against six women claiming to be his victims.

It was August 2023 when the disgraced singer lost a $10.5 million lawsuit filed by six women who appeared in the Surviving R. Kelly docuseries and claimed to face death threats for hosting a December 2018 screening of the docuseries in New York City, TMZ reports. The women sued Kelly, real name Robert Kelly, and his former manager, Donnell Russell, claiming they were behind the mass shooting threats to shut down the screening.

However, Kelly is attempting to fight the lawsuit since he allegedly had no idea it occurred. According to the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer, he would’ve defended himself against the lawsuit’s claims if he’d known about it.

With Kelly behind bars serving his 30-year sentence in North Carolina’s Butner Federal Prison, the singer says he is in over his head with criminal cases and finding it hard to keep up with everything.

The “I Wish” singer also notes the change in legal representation since he’s been locked up and believes the $10.5 million lawsuit must’ve slipped through the cracks or failed to be delivered to his jail cell.

If Kelly did perhaps receive the lawsuit, he would’ve needed his lawyers to read it to him since “I cannot read or understand words beyond that of a grade schooler,” he notes.

The Grammy Award-winning singer also claims Russell was never his manager and had no idea he was trying to shut down the NYC screening.

If Russell did make a mass shooting threat to shut down the screening, “he did that for his own reasons,” Kelly claims.

There is no word on whether a judge will reconsider the August ruling and prevent the six women from being awarded the $10.5 million.