Marion Knight

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.

A judge said Thursday that Death Row Records would be placed in receivership unless label founder Marion "Suge" Knight appeared at a debtor hearing next month. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald M. Sohigian ruled in a lawsuit by an imprisoned drug dealer seeking half of a $107-million award to the inmate's ex-wife, who said that she helped start the rap record empire and that Knight owed her the money.

Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight failed to appear at a court-ordered debtor hearing Saturday, triggering legal actions which a judge had warned would place his Death Row Records in receivership. In addition, lawyers suing him plan to ask that he be held in contempt and jailed until he participates in the debtor hearing, which requires him to disclose all of his assets.

Music entrepreneur Marion "Suge" Knight and Death Row Records, which shaped the rise of gansta rap music, sought federal bankruptcy protection Tuesday as a shield against a legal judgment. The last-minute maneuver in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles allowed the music executive to fend off an order by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald M. Sohigian that would have forced the label into receivership.

Rap producer Marion "Suge" Knight was arrested on suspicion of violating his parole after police stopped him for making an illegal turn Saturday night and discovered a small amount of marijuana in his pickup truck, authorities said. Police also booked an 18-year-old passenger, Alexis Wilkenson of Las Vegas, on suspicion of providing false information to an officer. She was later released, said police Sgt. Andy Espinoza.

A woman who said she and Marion "Suge" Knight started Death Row Records nearly two decades ago has been awarded $107 million in damages, after four years of legal wrangling over profits she said the rap music mogul owes her. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald M. Sohigian earlier this month ordered Knight and his companies, Death Row Records and Tha Row Inc., to pay Lydia Harris $45 million in economic damages, $2 million in noneconomic damages and $60 million in punitive damages.

Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight, whose name is synonymous with the music genre's violent history, underwent surgery Sunday for a gunshot injury he suffered in a Miami Beach nightclub, police said. Knight, 40, who was expected to recover from the bullet wound in his upper leg, was being treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Police officers were posted outside his room, said Miami Beach police spokesman Bob- by Hernandez. Police said they had no suspects.

Miami Beach police detectives still have "no new leads and no new information" on the shooting of Marion "Suge" Knight, the rap mogul who suffered a leg injury in a hotel's crowded night club in the coastal city on Aug. 28, a police spokesman said this week. Knight was released from the hospital last week after undergoing surgery for the wound he suffered at a party for rapper Kanye West at the Shore Club Hotel.

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.

Rap music figure Marion "Suge" Knight was released from Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., after serving 10 months for violating parole. The founder of Death Row Records was arrested in June on charges that he punched a parking lot attendant outside a Hollywood nightclub. In August, a state parole panel deemed the incident a violation of Knight's parole from an earlier assault conviction and ordered him to prison.