More than $500,000 in music royalties held by Universal Music Group must be turned over to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn to compensate the singer’s victims, a judge ruled Wednesday.
A year after being sentenced to 30 years in prison by a federal court in New York for years of running a system of sexual exploitation of young people, Judge Ann Donnelly ordered the Universal Music group to return the sum of 520, $55 in royalties to pay various costs of the singer’s victims.
Federal prosecutors had taken steps to seize the royalties held by Universal, but also by Sony Music Entertainment, the other label which published the albums of the singer R
