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The Israeli-raised president of Island Def Jam Records became one of the most important men in hip-hop, and why he may now become one of the most important men....
The inner world of a rap mogul
After two decades of survival and success in the cutthroat music business, the world's preeminent white rap mogul found himself trapped in a place most horrific:
A witness stand.
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In a federal courthousr.
Under oath.
"It's the nastiest, most negative place I've been in a very long time," said Lyor Cohen, head of the Island Def Jam Music Group, testifying in an ugly legal tussle over the platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule.
It only turned nastier for the 43-year-old music executive.
He lost the lawsuit. The judge implied he was "morally reprehensible." And the jury found him personally liable for millions in punitive damages.
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Trial evidence also revealed that Island Def Jam owned 50 percent of Ja Rule's record label, Murder Inc.
Federal prosecutors are investigating Murder Inc. for alleged money laundering, raising questions about whether IDJ and its publicly owned parent companies, the Univers