Names and faces
A judge Thursday sentenced former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight to 28 years in prison for the 2015 death of a man he ran over outside a Compton, Calif., burger stand. Knight listened without reaction as members of the dead man’s family addressed the court, describing 55-year-old
Terry Carter as a deeply devoted husband, father, grandfather and friend. Carter’s daughter Crystal called Knight “a disgusting, selfish disgrace to the human species.” Knight, who had been fighting with a longtime rival through the window of his pickup outside the burger stand, struck that man with his truck before running over Carter in 2015. Knight’s defense lawyers had contended he was acting in self-defense, but the Death Row Records co-founder pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter last month, averting a trial on murder and attempted murder charges. The prison sentence represents the low point of a long decline for Knight, one of the most important figures in the history of hip-hop. At his pinnacle in the mid-1990s, he was putting out wildly popular records that are now considered classics from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. Knight was at the center of the feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers that marked the middle of that decade. Shakur was in Knight’s car when he was killed in a drive-by attack in Las Vegas in 1996. Knight has felony convictions for armed robbery and assault. His previous convictions make him ineligible for probation, Los Angeles Superior Court Ronald Coen ruled.
EgyptAir is standing by a writer for its in-flight magazine who penned an article purportedly based on an interview with American actress Drew Barrymore. The article, riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors, led with a description of Barrymore as “being unstable in her relationships” and quoted her as saying that motherhood was “the most important role in my life.” The article also says Barrymore had failed relationships because her parents divorced. EgyptAir’s inflight magazine Horus has Arabic and English sections, but translations are often poor and English-language articles are filled with errors. In a tweet sent late Wednesday in response to online criticism, the national carrier thanked author Aida Tekla for “the clarification” in which she said the interview was real and took place in New York. Barrymore has yet to issue an official statement and her representatives could not be reached for comment. However, news reports in the U.S. have quoted representatives as denying that any such interview took place, with some suggesting the author must have based her article on misinterpretations of a news conference.