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Suge Knight sues Kanye West over nightclub shooting
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 9 April 2010
Death Row Records founder and all round nice guy Suge Knight has launched a new lawsuit against Kanye West seeking $1 million in damages in relation to an incident at a Miami nightclub in 2005 in which Knight was shot in the leg.
The party was hosted by West at the Shore Club in Miami Beach ahead of that year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Although there were plenty of people in attendance, presumably everyone was staring at celebrities like Jessica Alba, Eddie Murphy, The Black Eyed Peas and Paris Hilton, who were in turn nonchalantly staring into the distance, because few witnesses could be found by police investigating the shooting. As a result, no one was ever arrested in relation to the incident.
With no sign of justice being served, Knight now claims that West and the Shore Club’s owners failed to provide proper security at the event and are therefore responsible for him having a hole in his leg.
Knight’s lawyer, Marc Brumer, said on Tuesday: “He’s an icon in the music industry. He walks in a room and he lights it up. He had an expectation of security there. How someone came with a gun into a very VIP party, that just doesn’t meet the smell test in life”.
As well as having to shell out $200,000 in medical bills to treat his shattered femur, Knight also claims that he lost a fifteen carat diamond earring worth $135,000 during the incident, which, although found by an employee of the club, has never been returned to him.
US District Judge Patricia Seitz yesterday scheduled a court hearing for December. It’s not clear if Kanye West will appear in court.
