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Estate of Notorious B.I.G.’s Mother Seeks Proceeds from Sale of Her Son’s Music Catalog
After an ongoing battle to gain proceeds from a major sale of The Notorious B.I.G.’s music catalog, a lawsuit from his mother’s estate makes perfectly clear what it wants from his widow Faith Evans: More money, fewer problems.
The Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher George Latore Wallace, became a major star after the release of his debut album, Ready to Die, in 1994. He married R&B singer Evans shortly after.
The subsequent two years saw a vicious feud arise between Wallace and West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur, as well as Wallace’s estrangement from Evans. Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996. Wallace would die six months later, shot several times while stopped at a red light after leaving a party celebrating the Soul Train Music Awards.
In the aftermath of his death, Wallace’s mother Voletta took over the management of an LLC overseeing her son’s business ventures and intellectual property. Most notably, she secured the rights to her son’s catalog from Bad Boy Records, the company run by Sean “Diddy” Combs that had originally signed Wallace.
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