Mark Anthony Bell
As legend has it, on September 24, 1995, Suge Knight and Puff Daddy attended the same party at the Platinum House in Atlanta. A fight broke out and Death Row employee Jake Robles, who was allegedly a fellow Piru Bloods gang member along with Suge, was shot and killed. Witnesses apparently said they saw Puffy’s bodyguards fire the fatal shots, and since Robles was a close friend to Suge, Knight wanted revenge.
Soon after, an independent record promoter in New York named Mark Anthony Bell received a mysterious call asking for Puffy’s home address. Bell refused and three months later, Bell found himself at a Hollywood Christmas party at Chateau Le Blanc with Suge Knight. Suge invited Bell into a VIP room to talk, along with six goons. According to a
police report, Knight began “grilling him for the home address of Combs and his mother,” and when Bell refused, Suge’s associates began to beat him. He tried to escape off the balcony, but they pulled him back in, and Bell later told authorities he was “beaten with champagne bottles, robbed and forced to drink a glass of urine.”
Bell later recanted his version of the story after settling out of court with Death Row. When asked about the incident, Suge simply
told Newsweek,
“I don’t piss in champagne classes.”
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