It’s unclear whether Shakur’s mother would seek to have the handwritten contract disavowed. Ogletree could not be reached for comment Monday. Kenner-who was fired by Shakur about three weeks before the rapper died-denied any conflict of interest, insisting that Shakur was represented at the time by attorney Charles Ogletree. According to Fischbein, the rapper appears to have been represented by Kenner, who also was the attorney for Knight and Death Row at the time.įischbein accuses of Kenner of having a conflict of interest when he drafted the contract and gave advice to Shakur about signing it.
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The agreement, which grants Death Row the right to release as many as four albums, spells out a series of advance payments promised to Shakur-many of which Fischbein alleges the rapper never received.įischbein also complains that Shakur did not have proper representation when he signed the agreement. “This contract is not like any other agreement I’ve ever seen in my life,” Fischbein said. Shakur signed the agreement, Fischbein suggests, because he was unhappy and had been incarcerated for months on a sex abuse charge before Knight showed up with a promise to bail him out. Unlike a standard recording agreement, typically thick and laced with dozens of complicated terms and conditions, Shakur’s pact with Death Row is hand-written and just three pages long. Shakur’s mother has also cast doubt on the validity of the recording contract that Death Row struck with her son on Sept. Death Row never even came to the table to have a discussion.” “Nothing would have happened if it wasn’t for him. “It was Jimmy Iovine who took the lead in getting the ball rolling to straighten this mess out,” Fischbein said.
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Death Row attorney David Kenner was also not present.ĭuring the meeting, Interscope’s attorneys also pledged an additional $2 million in advances to be paid before April and helped negotiate an upgrade in the royalty rate (from 12% to 18%) paid to her son for past releases.įischbein insists that Interscope attorneys forgave about 50% of the $4.9-million debt-a point with which Death Row adamantly disagrees. Death Row owner Marion “Suge” Knight was in jail at the time on a probation violation and could not attend the meeting. 1 meeting between Shakur’s mother, Fischbein, Interscope co-founder Jimmy Iovine and a group of attorneys. Nevertheless, when Shakur’s mother threatened in October to sue Death Row and bar the release of her son’s posthumous “Makaveli: The Don Killuminati” album, Death Row’s distributor Interscope Records worked out a deal to pay an immediate $3-million “nonrefundable” advance to Shakur’s estate, Fischbein said.
In addition, Shakur ran up more than $2 million in advances for recording and video costs-which, according to standard industry practice, must be recouped by the record company before his account can turn a profit, Death Row sources said. Shakur also charged to the company lease-payments for three residences as well as a slew of lavish bills, including a $300,000 tab at the Peninsula Hotel and hundreds of thousands of dollars in invoices for jewelry, furniture, security and limo service, sources said.
In the year preceding his slaying, Death Row had advanced Shakur large sums of cash to buy several cars for himself and a house for his mother-funds that the rapper was required to pay back, Death Row sources said.
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