BUSINESS
August 1, 2003 | Chuck Philips, Times Staff Writer
Someone is gunning for Marion "Suge" Knight. The head of Death Row Records grew famous glamorizing gang violence. He called his artists "inmates." His company logo depicted a hooded convict strapped into an electric chair. His producers grafted violent lyrics onto driving rhythms, punctuated by shotgun blasts and wailing sirens. That was make-believe mayhem. Now, Knight is being stalked by the real thing.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 4, 2002 | Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
The party at the Playboy Mansion was over hours earlier, and as the clock ticked toward 4 a.m., Marion "Suge" Knight was back in his darkened office and puffing on a Cuban cigar. Over his shoulder, the framed platinum albums glinted like chrome rims in a low fog. It was then, as so often happens with the rap music mogul, that the topic turned to murder.
NEWS
December 29, 1996 | CHUCK PHILIPS and ALAN ABRAHAMSON, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Why did Steve Cantrock, a partner in a prestigious Los Angeles accounting firm, sign a document admitting that he stole $4.5 million from Death Row Records owner Marion "Suge" Knight? Knight has a simple, if implausible, explanation for the unusual, handwritten IOU, which is now in the hands of federal investigators. "It was Steve's idea," he said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 24, 2008 | Paloma Esquivel, Times Staff Writer
Seeking to further curb criminal activities, Compton has asked a judge to ban individuals identified as members of the Mob Piru street gang -- including rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight -- from congregating in a northeast neighborhood. Using a strategy employed by other crime-ridden communities, the court order would be the first gang injunction in a city with a long history of battling street gangs.
NEWS
October 29, 1996 | HENRY WEINSTEIN, TIMES LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER
Veteran attorney David Kenner, embroiled in the latest controversy involving Death Row Records owner Marion "Suge" Knight, is known as a very aggressive, well-prepared criminal defense lawyer who establishes strong rapport with his clients. Over the last two decades, those clients have included alleged murderers, drug dealers and stock swindlers. In recent years, Knight, his record company and the firm's artists, including rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, have become the centerpieces of his practice.
NEWS
September 1, 1997 | CHUCK PHILIPS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
There's no doubt that Michael "Harry O" Harris has entrepreneurial instincts. Growing up in a Los Angeles neighborhood he calls "the low bottom," he became one of the region's most notorious crack dealers before he was arrested and sent to prison in 1987. Since being in prison, he has decided that his real talents lie in the entertainment business.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 15, 2002 | Chuck Philips, Richard Winton and Andrew Blankstein, Times Staff Writers
In an investigation that centers on the crumbling rap music empire of Marion "Suge" Knight, Los Angeles authorities arrested three of his associates Thursday on suspicion of conspiring to murder a gang rival. The three -- a former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy and two alleged gang members -- are accused of plotting to kill the rival in revenge for the death of another Knight associate who was gunned down in April.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 20, 2004 | Chuck Philips, Times Staff Writer
Seven years after the killing of rap star Notorious B.I.G., the FBI is investigating allegations that a rogue Los Angeles police officer orchestrated the slaying with rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight, according to court documents and law enforcement sources. The FBI is pursuing a 6-year-old theory that then-Officer David A.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 27, 2002 | Richard Winton, Times Staff Writer
An associate of rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was charged Tuesday with the attempted murder of a reputed gang rival, prosecutors said. Timothy "Tim Roo" McDonald, 34, was accused of trying to kill a member of a rival gang last month as revenge for the unsolved murder of another Knight associate, who was shot to death in South Los Angeles six days before. Sheriff's deputies alleged that they saw McDonald, who was at large Tuesday, prepare to shoot a suspected gang member in Compton on Oct.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 15, 1996 | ALAN ABRAHAMSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
With Marion "Suge" Knight's freedom and perhaps the fate of Death Row Records at stake, prosecutors pushed Thursday to revoke Knight's probation and send him to state prison for nine years because of an assault in a Las Vegas hotel. But the victim of the assault, a Lakewood man with reputed gang ties, said Thursday in court that Knight did not assault him but instead acted as a peacemaker in the Sept. 7 fight at the MGM Grand Hotel.