The Night 2Pac Wanted War With the Gangster Disciples (And How J Prince Got Larry Hoover to Call Off the Hit)
Phat Rap Fest | Mecca Arena, Milwaukee | September 3, 1994
Scarface broke down the night Pac lost it on stage in Milwaukee.
He stopped the show to give a moment of silence for Shavon Dean. However, the GDs were packed in the front rows throwing up gang signs. Pac took that as a sign of disrespect and told the GDs:
“You better stop killing those babies or else I’ll murder you myself.”
EDI Mean said Pac was already heated after reading about Yummy getting executed by his own BD set.
The angry mob didn’t back down. They felt falsely accused for a murder Yummy — a known BD — committed, so they rushed the stage after Pac.
Later that night, the Gangster Disciples pulled up to the Hyatt Regency, tore the place up, and broke windows looking for him.
2Pac wanted to go downstairs and fight the GDs by himself. Scarface had to hold Pac back and told him to sit his ass down while he blocked the door.
Even when he left Milwaukee, there was already a green light on 2Pac.
So J Prince had a sit-down with Larry Hoover to explain why Pac was outraged that night. The green light was ultimately called off by Hoover.
Tori Spelling inherited $800,000 from her father, worth an estimated $500 million.
By 2023 she was staying in a motel.
Her mother saw it coming. Candy Spelling told The New York Times in 2014 that Tori couldn't have managed a large inheritance. She would close a store for herself and drop $50,000 to $60,000.
Then the bills came due. American Express sued in 2016, and a bank won more than $200,000 from the actress and her husband over an unpaid loan.
In the video below, Lisa Vanderpump tells Tori her father may have done her a favor by leaving so little. The 90210 star isn't having it:
"What if he had given me $50 million? And what if with that $50 million, I had changed the world?"
Two years later, mold drove the family out of their rental. They moved into a motel, then to an RV park.
If her father had left her $50 million, would Tori have changed the world, or just taken a few years longer to spend it?
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Gary Coleman made $18 million as a kid. His parents and advisors left him with $3.8 million to sue them for.
In the video below, Todd Bridges lays out how Gary Coleman’s fortune from “Diff’rent Strokes” disappeared.
“I could spread the blame from me, to accountants, to my adoptive parents, to agents, to lawyers, and back to me again.”
That’s Gary Coleman himself, in 1999, the day he filed for bankruptcy.
Here’s how it happened.
For six seasons, Coleman was the highest paid child star in America. His earnings from the show totaled around $18 million.
His parents and business manager controlled the trust. In 1989, Coleman sued them, accusing them of moving his money out of the trust into bad investments, including a stake in Orion Pictures, and pocketing the rest.
He sued for $3.8 million. In 1993, the court awarded him $1.28 million.
Do the math. A fraction of what he was owed, after lawyers took their cut, on a fortune that should have paid him for life.
By 1999, the highest paid child star in America was bankrupt.
The lesson: a trust fund only protects you from strangers. It does nothing when the people managing it are the ones taking from it.
Should child stars’ earnings be controlled by a court-appointed guardian instead of their own parents?