Suge Knight accuses Dr. Dre of hiring hitman to kill him in new lawsuit

Suge Knight accused his former business partner, Dr. Dre, of hiring a hitman to kill him, according to a new lawsuit.

Oct 25, 2016

Suge Knight accused his former business partner, Dr. Dre, of hiring a hitman to kill him, according to a new lawsuit.

Knight claims that he signed a lifetime management deal with Dre and is entitled to a 30 percent cut of the record producer’s entertainment earnings, including his $3 billion deal in which Apple purchased Dre’s Beats by Dre headphones.

In the lawsuit, according to TMZ, Dre hired a hitman to kill his Death Row Records co-founder at 1 OAK nightclub during the MTV Video Music Awards weekend in Los Angeles. Knight was shot seven times in the abdomen but later recovered from his injuries.

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department questioned a man, the lawsuit says, who claimed he was paid by Dre to murder Knight. No arrests were made in the shooting, despite dozens of cameras in the nightclub.

Knight is suing Dre, Apple, and Universal — which produced Dre’s N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton — for unspecified damages.

A lawyer for Dre responded to the lawsuit, saying, “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.”