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Suge's Summer of Discontent
Last month may well go down as one of Marion "Suge" Knight's worst.
Just one day after the hip-hop mogul was shot in Miami, a California judge froze his assets in a civil case.
Monterey County Superior Court Judge Adrienne M. Grover issued the ruling Aug. 29, as Knight lay in a Miami hospital recovering from a bullet wound incurred at a VMA Awards show pre-party.
While the 40-year-old has since been released from the hospital and is recovering at home in Los Angeles, he won't be able to use his debit card to order in for a while--thanks to the judge's ruling.
In March, a Los Angeles judge ordered Knight to pay $107 million to Lydia Harris, who claimed she helped start Death Row Records (now Tha Row). Harris sued Knight for unpaid royalties, claiming she was entitled to a 50 percent stake in the company.
Although Harris' civil case against Knight never reached trial, Knight's lawyers failed to cooperate with her lawyers, leading to the preemptive judgment--which has yet to be paid.
Now, there is a third person making a claim to the $107 million--Harris' estranged husband, Michael Harris.
Michael Harris, a convicted drug dealer serving time in San Quentin, filed for divorce from Lydia in June, after he learned that she was negotiating a settlement for a lesser amount with Knight on the sly.
The divorce effectively keeps Lydia Harris from working out a deal with Knight. With Knight named in the divorce petition, he is now unable to access his assets.
Michael Harris, who was sentenced to 28 years for dealing crack and attempted murder, now wants half the $107 million and is loath to settle for less. He says that despite being behind bars at the time, he put up $1.5 million in 1991 to launch Death Row. Harris was also a key figure in a federal racketeering investigation of Tha Row that ended in 2002.
Knight has consistently denied Michael Harris ever helped fund the label. Instead, he claims Death Row was seeded with millions of dollars from deals cut with Sony, Interscope and Time Warner.
The once prosperous label has faltered in recent years, as Knight's legal woes have mounted. He spent nearly five years in prison for a 1996 parole violation.
While he was still locked up in 2000, a Los Angeles jury ordered Knight to cough up $10 million in punitive damages on top of $4 million in compensatory damages for stealing away Kurupt from two Los Angeles-based music producers who had the rapper under contract. That award was later reduced to $5.5 million.
As for the Miami shooting, police have not speculated on a reason for the attack. The suspect has yet to be identified and remains at large.
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