R Kelly manager sentenced to a year in prison for theatre threat

Russell told a judge in New York on Monday that he had “made bad judgments” after starting to work with Kelly on what Russell described as intellectual property matters.

R Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell leaves court in New York. Russell was sentenced Monday, Dec. 19, to a year in federal prison for a shooting threat that shut down a screening of a documentary. Picture: Mary Altaffer/AP/PA

R Kelly’s one-time manager was sentenced on Monday to a year in jail for a shooting threat that halted a screening of a damning documentary about the R&B star.

The sentence will not add to the time ex-manager Donnell Russell is already set to serve for a different effort to quash sexual abuse claims against Kelly.