Organized-Crime

Notorious B.I.G. murdered in Los Angeles, Diddy's control through chaos

| Importance: 8/10

Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, Bad Boy Records’ biggest star, is murdered in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, six months after Tupac Shakur’s similar death. The murder, which remains officially unsolved, occurs at the height of the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop …

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Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network

| Importance: 8/10

In early 1953, Roy Cohn begins developing a systematic blackmail infrastructure during the McCarthy Senate hearings, leveraging anti-communist hysteria and homophobic tactics to gather compromising information on political and cultural figures. As 24-year-old chief counsel to Senator Joseph …

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