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Notorious B.I.G. slapped
with $17,000 judgement
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAMDEN, N.J. - Gangsta
rapper Notorious B.I.G. was
found responsible Friday in
the beating a Camden man in
a dispute over a canceled per
formance and ordered to pay
nearly $17,000.
Ajmy in the civil case in U.S.
District Court in Camden
dehberated for about an hoiu-
before returning the verdict
against the Brooklyn rapper,
also known as Biggie Smalls.
The eight-member jury
acquitted Smalls on charges of
robbing Nathaniel Banks, 31,
of Cherry Hill during a brawl
in Camden on May 6, 1995.
Smalls had denied any wrong
doing.
Smalls — whose real name is
Christopher Wallace - was not
in the courtroom when the ver
dict was announced. He still
faces a disorderly person’s
charge pending in municipal
court.
'The jury — in finding Smalls
liable - awarded Banks
$15,000 in compensatory dam
ages and $1,700 for his med
ical hills. Banks had sought
unspecified damages.
“The truth is coming out,”
Banks said after the verdict. “I
don’t really care about the
money.”
Banks, an aspiring enter
tainment entrepreneur,
required surgery for a broken
jaw. He also claimed that he
lost his money, jewelry, cellu
lar phone and beeper, but the
jury ruled that Smalls was not
responsible.
Tbe jury also found that
Banks should be awarded
punitive damages for his
injury. U.S. District Judge
Joseph Irenas told the panel to
return Monday to determine
what amount Banks should
receive.
Both sides in the case agreed
that Banks was heaten, but
differed on who was responsi
ble for the assault. Banks was
sent to Elizabeth by a Camden
music promoter to pick up
Smalls and his entourage for a
performance in Camden.
The show, however, was can
celled hy the time the
entourage of more than a half-
dozen cars arrived at the Club
Escape in South Camden,
according to testimony. Banks
said he was beaten when the
entourage tried to collect the
balance of a $7,500 perfor
mance fee, but the promoter
was not at home.
Smalls, who lives in Teaneck,
was later arrested in
Pennsylvania on a fugitive
warrant charging him with
aggravated assault and rob
bery. His attorney Robert
Kalina said prosecutors dis
missed the charges and the
case was transferred to munic
ipal court where a disorderly
person’s charge is pending.
Smalls built his gangsta rap
persona around authenticity,
making much of his past as an
ex-crack dealer from Bedford-
Stuyvesant, one of the tough
est neighborhoods in
Brooklyn.
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