Earlier this year, Lydia Harris, the former wife of Death Row Records co-founder Michael “Harry-O” Harris, filed a lawsuit against Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight, Interscope Records, Time Warner, and Universal Music Group, and attorneys for Snoop have responded by trying to get the suit dismissed.
According to HipHopDX, the “Doggfather” called Lydia a “bad faith litigant” in response to the lawsuit she filed in March, stating that the parties named in the suit have yet to pay her a $107 million judgment awarded to her 20 years ago in 2005. She insists that before Death Row Records was launched, she put up $1.5 million to initiate the start of the label in 1989. She claims she was never paid back and kept out of the profits when the label took off.
She ended up suing Suge and Death Row Records in 2002, and was awarded a judgment of $107 million, but has not seen any money.
The current lawsuit states that Death Row (now owned by Snoop), Knight, Interscope, Time Warner, and Universal conspired to not pay her the earnings. Harris is requesting punitive damages, the recovery of assets owed to her, as well as a full accounting of the record label’s finances.
Snoop’s legal team has filed a motion to dismiss, claiming the current action exceeds the statute of limitations. They accused her of being a “bad faith litigant” who “continued a pattern of harassment in California for years and has now shifted her harassment to a new forum in Texas,” where she recently filed the paperwork.
Digital Music News reported that Lydia admitted that she was given a “good-faith payment” from Suge after he declared bankruptcy for the label in 2008. Snoop’s lawyers said that the bankruptcy settlement resolved her claims and prevented her from seeking relief at a later time.
Along with that, the attorneys also said that her “substantively frivolous” lawsuit is “undeniably time-barred by the relevant statute of limitations.” Citing that it’s been over 20 years since the March 9, 2005 judgment and the March 18, 2025 filing. They state that the time period is “considerably outside the one-year statute of limitations.”
Snoop Dogg Looking For Dismissal Of $107M Lawsuit Against Death Row Records
