‘Suge’ Knight to stay in jail longer

Friday, Nov. 8, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

On Thursday, Superior Court Judge J. Stephen Czule ger said Knight, 30, had repeatedly failed to appear in court and ordered him held without bail. Knight is on probation for a 1992 assault and could serve a nine-year suspended sentence.

A hearing was scheduled next week on whether to revoke probation.

Knight, a former UNLV football player and multimillionaire founder of Death Row Records, is accused of failing to submit to drug tests, testing positive for marijuana and failure to appear in court.

The judge watched videotape of a Sept. 7 assault outside the MGM Grand hotel-casino in Las Vegas. It showed a man appearing to be the 6-foot-3, 335-pound Knight among a group of seven or eight beating a man identified as Orlando Anderson.

Shakur also was identified as one of the attackers.

About two hours after the beating, Shakur and Knight, both in Knight's car, were hit by gunfire from another car on East Flamingo Road. Shakur died six days later; Knight was grazed.

"I look at the allegations ... and I look at the videotape, and I see combative, violent behavior," Czuleger said.

Knight is also accused of violating federal probation on a 1994 firearms conviction. A hearing on that allegation was set for Nov. 25.

His assault conviction resulted from a September 1992 attack on two aspiring rappers at a Hollywood recording studio.

In a television interview Wednesday night, white rapper Rob Van Winkle, who performs as Vanilla Ice, said Knight and six associates once came to his room and forced him to sign away composing credits worth up to $4 million.

The negotiations for his signature, he said, took place near the edge of a balcony about 15 stories up.

"I signed them and walked away alive," Van Winkle said.

"Never happened," Knight said in a jailhouse interview with ABC's "Prime Time Live."

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