Lara Pomerantz: Last News

R. Kelly’s manager was convicted Friday of making a phone threat that gunfire was about to occur at a crowded Manhattan theater preparing to show a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls. The jury convicted Donnell Russell of threatening physical harm through interstate communication, but it exonerated him on a conspiracy count.

The trial of R. Kelly’s manager began Tuesday over charges that he forced the cancellation of a 2018 screening of the "Surviving R. Kelly" documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls by calling in an active shooter threat to the packed New York theater.  Donnell Russell is on trial for allegedly phoning the NeueHouse Madison Square on Dec.

Ghislaine Maxwell played a key role in billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s string of abuse against young girls, a prosecutor told the court.During the opening day of her trial in New York, the court heard how Maxwell had a “playbook” on how to abuse young girls and the British socialite was Epstein’s “partner in crime”.Prosecutor Lara Pomerantz told jurors that between Maxwell, 59, and Epstein, they had committed crime for over ten years.Pomerantz went on to describe the experience of a 14-year-old girl called Jane, who was introduced to Epstein and a woman at a music camp, with Epstein saying he was a donor there.Epstein introduced himself as “someone who gave scholarships for kids”However, the prosecutor went on to reveal “what Jane