Suge Knight says he is owed millions from Dr. Dre due to contractual obligations and an attempt on his life. In a lawsuit filed with the Superior Court of California – Los Angeles County, Knight claims that Dre contracted the guy that shot him seven times at Chris Brown’s pre-VMA party in 2014. Again, in 2015, Knight claims Dre hired another man for $300,000 to finish the hit. For the 2014 incident, Knight says the L.A. County Sherriff’s office interrogated a man name “Damian” or “T-Money” who said he was paid by Dre to do the hit. The man was never charged. Therefore, Knight is seeking unspecified damages, punitive and otherwise, according to Rolling Stone. In January 2015, Knight claims that Cle “Bone” Sloan admitted to punching him while on-set of “Straight Outta Compton. Knight, unfortunately, faces manslaughter charges for injuring Sloan that day and killing Terry Carter. “The lawsuit gives the proper motivation or at least explains what happened to Suge in the past year and a half,” Knight’s lawyer, Thaddeus Culpepper, tells Rolling Stone. “It sets the table for real discussion as to why he would just run people over. If the idea is that he was just a crazy man and ran some people because he’s Suge Knight, no, there was a reason and we think we set it out pretty well.” “Given that Dre has had zero interaction with Suge since leaving Death Row Records in 1996, we hope that Suge’s lawyer has lots of malicious prosecution insurance,” a lawyer for Dr. Dre tells Rolling Stone. Carter, the lawsuit says, had told Knight that Dre and Ice Cube wanted to discuss paying him for using his likeness in the movie. The lawsuit claims that Universal and Dre had paid Sloan and another man, Dwayne “Knob” Johnson, to serve as “technical advisors” on the movie – it claims Knight can prove a $20,000 check was written to Johnson, an amount it alleges is out of proportion with union scale. Knight, who was charged with Carter’s murder and is awaiting trial, has pleaded not guilty. He also claims to be entitled to 30 percent of Dr. Dre’s earnings for life as part of a lifetime management deal (including $300 million he claims he’s owed as a result of Beats Music’s sale to Apple). The suit also alleges that Dre’s many delays of his Detox record were a tactic to avoid paying Knight. (via Rolling Stone)
