Michael Williams had pleaded guilty to attack, one of three alleged instances of witness intimidation relating to the Kelly trial, and was sentenced to eight years
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Michael Williams, an associate of disgraced R&B star R Kelly, has been sentenced to eight years in
prison after intimidating an accuser in Kelly’s trial for
Sexual Abuse.
Williams, a relative of a former publicist for Kelly, had pleaded guilty to arson. In June 2020, he drove 200 miles to where one of Kelly’s accusers, known pseudonymously as Jane, was living, and set a car leased by Jane’s father on
fire.