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Family Demands B.I.G. Payday
Notorious B.I.G.'s family wants the City of Los Angeles to pick up a pretty hefty legal tab.
Relatives of the late rapper, led by his mother, Voletta Wallace, and widow, R&B star Faith Evans, are asking a federal judge to order the city to reimburse them $2.1 million in legal fees and other court-related expenses.
Biggie's family filed its request a little more than a month after U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declared a mistrial in the Wallaces' federal wrongful-death lawsuit against the LAPD after determining that police and city attorneys intentionally withheld evidence from the court.
In her ruling, Cooper admonished the city for failing to hand over reams of key evidence related to the murder investigation into the death of the hip-hopster, whose real name was Christopher Wallace. She also ordered both the city to pay Wallace's family all "fees and costs incurred as a result of defendants misconduct."
In motions filed this week, Wallace family attorney Perry Sanders Jr. demand that the city cough up $1.6 million in attorney fees and $500,000 for other trial costs, such as travel.
A spokesperson for the city attorney's office was unavailable for comment Wednesday. But Assistant City Attorney Don Vincent told the Associated Press that while he had not yet seen the filing, the requested amount seemed a bit of a stretch.
"They have to really justify it well," he said. "I don't know what their logic is or anything."
Wallace was shot and killed Mar. 9, 1997 after attending a recording industry party in the city's mid-Wilshire district. As the case languished, the rapper's family sued, accusing the department of botching the investigation and violating Biggie's civil rights by failing to protect him despite knowing there were threats against him stemming from the violent East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry.
The Wallace family is expected to refile a wrongful-death lawsuit and expand the scope to include details from the recently unearthed evidence.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles City Council is planning to debate whether to settle the case for a proposed $18 million, but early indications suggest city officials prefer to let the matter be resolved in court.
"I'm not prepared to pay $18 million to settle that case," Councilman Dennis Zine, a former police sergeant, told the Los Angeles Times.
Meanwhile, the case has spurred the inevitable movie project. Fox Searchlight is currently talking with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua about helming a Biggie biopic, which Voletta Wallace would coproduce with the rapper's former managers.
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