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''The Murder of Biggie Smalls'' is a non-fiction true crime book by author and journalist Cathy Scott. Published in October 2000 by St. Martin's Press, it covers the March 9, 1997, murder of Christopher Wallace in a drive-by shooting. ==Background== The book includes a chapter about accusations from fellow rapper Tupac Shakur, that Biggie, 24, and his producer, Sean "Diddy" Combs, were responsible for Tupac being injured during a 1994 shooting at New York City's Quad Studios, where Biggie was recording that same night. Smalls denied the accusation, as did Combs, and no arrests were ever made in the case. In September 1996, Shakur, 25, was shot a second time, this time in Las Vegas. Shakur died six days later. That murder, too, remains unsolved, which Scott covered in ''The Killing of Tupac Shakur''. In what was promoted as a Sunday series with "exclusive information" in the ''Los Angeles Times'', the article quoted a single source saying Biggie Smalls had been in Las Vegas the night Shakur was murdered and that Smalls had paid for and ordered the hit against Shakur. When Voletta Wallace, Smalls' mother, gave proof to the ''Times'' that her son had, in fact, been in a New York studio recording music the night Shakur was shot, the newspaper retracted the story and ultimately removed it from its website. Scott commented on the article in a ''Las Vegas CityLife'' column. "Wallace was a rapper, not a killer," she wrote. "He was an only child who attended private Catholic school and was raised by an over-protective single mom. While Wallace spewed violence in his songs, he wasn't a street thug like Shakur."〔(''Las Vegas CityLife'', "Death in Vegas: The ''Times'' claim that B.I.G. arranged the killing of Tupac Shakur simply doesn't make sense," by Cathy Scott, September, 17 2002 )〕 ''People'' magazine interviewed Scott about the claim, quoting her as saying, "It's easy to point a finger at a dead guy. The dead can't sue."〔(''People'' magazine, "B.I.G. Family Denies Tupac Murder Claim," September 9, 2002 )〕 TruTV's "Crime Library" quoted one possible scenario from the book that Combs could have been responsible for Smalls' death because "dead stars sell records without the bothersome upkeep." An earlier article in the ''L.A. Times'', which accused Tupac's music producer, Suge Knight, and a rogue Los Angeles Police Department officer as also being involved in Smalls' murder, the informant for the article recanted his claims and described himself to the ''Times'' as "a paranoid schizophrenic."〔(''Los Angeles Times'', "Informant in Rap Star's Slaying Admits Hearsay," June 3, 2005 )〕 Based upon the newspaper's earlier accusations against her son, Voletta Wallace filed suit against the City of Los Angeles and the LAPD in a wrongful death suit accusing police of taking part in a conspiracy to kill her son. She lost the suit when, in April 2010, a judge dismissed the claim.〔(''The Guardian'', "Notorious BIG death lawsuit dismissed," April 19, 2010 )〕 The civil suit, along with LAPD's internal investigation, are included in ''The Murder of Biggie Smalls''. In January 2011, Anderson Cooper AC360 reported that a new task force, composed of law enforcement officers based in the Los Angeles area, was taking a fresh look at the Smalls murder case, interviewing author Scott for AC360's blog about the probe that is said to also be looking into Shakur's murder.〔(An AC360° Cold Case: Mystery still surrounds rappers' deaths," January 6, 2011 )〕 The book was optioned in 2000 for a feature film, ''Record Wars'', by Jonathan Sheinberg's development and production company The Machine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Murder of Biggie Smalls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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