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R. Kelly Claims Ignorance Over $10.5 Million Lawsuit Against Him For Shooting Threat

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R. Kelly’s legal trouble continues to mount and mount, this time over a lawsuit that he allegedly was never aware of. Moreover, according to new court documents reportedly obtained by TMZ, he blasted a $10.5 million August judgement awarded against him to a group of women. The judge in this case oversaw the case of six females who sued the artist and his alleged former manager Donnell Russell for reportedly sabotaging and shutting down a New York City screening of the Surviving R. Kelly docu-series in December of 2018 by threatening a mass shooting. He supposedly expressed that, if he was aware of the suit in the first place, he would have defended himself.

As such, it seems like this $10.5 million sum is a default judgement based on R. Kelly’s failure to respond, although that’s just an assumption. Given his response, though, it would make sense that said outcome was what won the lawsuit for the six women in this case and time. Regardless, this also follows a pattern of legal pushback from the Chicago native against endeavors against him. For example, he sued Tasha K and various prison workers last year for allegedly leaking information about him.

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R. Kelly At A 2019 Chicago Hearing

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CHICAGO, IL – SEPTEMBER 17: Singer R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on September 17, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Kelly is facing multiple sexual assault charges and is being held without bail. (Photo by Antonio Perez – Pool via Getty Images)

Back to this specific judgement, though, R. Kelly reportedly expressed that he’s simply overwhelmed by the many lawsuits and cases against him, which he can’t handle from his North Carolina prison cell. Beyond the sheer quantity, another reason he cited is the many changes in his legal team as of late, which caused him to completely miss the lawsuit. In addition, the 57-year-old said he “cannot read or understand words beyond that of a grade schooler,” so he wouldn’t have been able to understand the suit in the first place without solid legal counsel. As the final cherry atop the excuse sundae this time around, he claimed Russell was never his manager and that, if he tried to stop the Surviving screening without Kelly, he did it “for his own reasons,” not on his orders.

Meanwhile, we’ll see if there are any reversals or double-downs in this case. The pop culture world continues to discuss this situation, whether it’s for a morbid laugh or for a serious conversation on abuse of power. Surely, it’s too big of a case for it to slow down anytime soon. For more news and the latest updates on R. Kelly, come back to HNHH.

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Michael B. Jordan Trolls Reporter For Calling Him “Corny”

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Michael B. Jordan brought up a reporter’s previous comments on him during an interview on the red carpet for a screening of Creed III on Saturday. When the reporter mentioned that they went to school together, Jordan revealed that she once called him “corny.” The interviewer, Morning Hustle host Lore’l, downplayed her past comments.

“We go way back, all the way back to Chad Science [Academy] in Newark,” she began. “Oh yeah, I was the corny kid, right?” Jordan responded, referring to remarks she made on a podcast. Lore’l then insisted she was being “misquoted.” “No you did not hear me say that! I said we used to make fun of the name,” she continued, before switching the topic. “But yeah, he is obviously killing things out here.” She concluded: “Well, you’re not corny anymore.”

Michael B. Jordan On The Red Carpet

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – FEBRUARY 23: Michael B. Jordan attends the CREED III HBCU fan screening presented by MGM Studios at Regal Atlantic Station on February 23, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for MGM Studios)

Lore’l had spoken about being classmates with Jordan during an episode of the Undressing Room podcast. She and her co-hosts, Eva Marcille and Dominique da Diva, had been discussing Jordan’s relationship with Lori Harvey. “You know what’s so crazy? I went to school with Michael B. Jordan at a point in life,” she said. “… And to be honest with you, we teased him all the damn time because his name was Michael Jordan. Let’s start there, and he was no Michael Jordan. And he also would come to school with a headshot. We lived in Newark, that’s the hood. We would make fun of him like, ‘What you gonna do with your stupid headshot!?’ And now look at him!” Jordan and Harvey have since broken up.

Creed III is scheduled to hit theaters on March 3, 2023. It will be the first film in the series that Jordan directed. It also stars Tessa Thompson, Jonathan Majors, Wood Harris, and more. It’s the first film in the series to not feature Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa.

Lore’l’s Interview

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