Incase you don't know, Suge Knight is sueing Kanye West over an incident that happened in Miami back in '05. An unknown gunman shot Suge in the leg at a Kanye hosted shindig at the Shore Club before the MTV Awards.
Knight — who promoted some of rap's biggest acts in the 1990s but has been beset by legal and financial troubles — has sued the Grammy Award-winning West and the Shore Club's owners, saying they didn't provide enough security.
Knight said Friday he had hoped a face-to-face encounter with West — and their lawyers — could settle the matter, but he got few answers.
"I figured I could sit him down, man to man, and get this resolved," Knight said after the six-hour, closed-door session at a Fifth Avenue office. "I'm disappointed."
West said he wasn't involved in the security arrangements for the party, said Knight's lawyer, Marc Brumer.
West briskly left the building afterward; his lawyers didn't immediately respond to telephone and e-mail messages left Friday evening. In court papers, West and the Shore Club ownership have denied Knight's claims of negligence.
No one has been arrested in the August 2005 shooting, which erupted in a club full of partygoers, including Jessica Alba, Eddie Murphy, the Black Eyed Peas and Paris Hilton. At least six shots were fired, police said.
The shooting shattered Knight's femur and left him with $200,000 in medical bills, Brumer said.
Knight said in his lawsuit, now being handled in Miami federal court, that West and the Shore Club should have realized the party could produce a "dangerous environment" because of a widely known history of sometimes violent feuding among rap figures.
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